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Steam is a word element to

which grammatical or inflectional

suffixes can be added. Every

word that end with inflectional

suffixes, we called it ‘steam’.

Inflectional suffixes :

–s (plural)

–s (possessive)

–s (third singular person)
–ed (past tense)

–en (past participle)

–ing (present participle)
–er (comparative)

–est (superlative)

Example :

Bag (root) – bag(s) = bags (steam)

Play (root) – play(er)(base)+(s) = players (steam)