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Base I any unit to which affixes of

any kind derivational/lexical

affixes can be added. All roots

are bases. Bases are called

steams only in the context of

inflectional morphology.

Example :

Like (root) + -dis = dislike(base)+ -ed

(inflectional suffixes) = disliked( steam)

It means that stem ‘disliked’ come from

base ‘dislike’