Affix types - Change the meaning of a word

[HanibalII]

Hi guys, I'm currently working through some of my English work, and I came across this piece of reading.

Currently working on affixes, and I had a query regarding them.

With Derivational Suffixes, can I change 'Assign' which has in itself its own meaning, to 'assignment' which has an entirely different meaning? Is it really a derivation if it doesn't have the same meaning?


Please let me know if I've been unclear.


Cheers

 

[Grumpy]

Hi guys, I'm currently working through some of my English work, and I came across this piece of reading.

Currently working on affixes, and I had a query regarding them.

With Derivational Suffixes, can I change 'Assign' which has in itself it's own meaning, to 'assignment' which has an entirely different meaning? Is it really a derivation if it doesn't have the same meaning?


Please let me know if I've been unclear.


Cheers

Yes you can. Derivational suffixes change both syntactic category (part of speech) and meaning, although the new meaning is related to the previous one. In this case, you have changed a verb to a noun, but the two meanings are obviously closely related.

By the way, remember that the possessive "its" does not have an apostrophe.