Inflectional suffix in novel The Murder at The Vicarage by Agatha Christie

Abstract

The study deals with the analysis of inflectional suffix in novel The Murder at The Vicarage by Agatha Christie. The objectives of the study were to find out the types of noun suffix in novel The Murder at The Vicarage by Agatha Christie. This study was conducted by applying qualitative method with descriptive method. The data of this study was taken from the novel The Murder at The Vicarage by Agatha Christie.The researcher took 10 % of the pages of the novel and the pages number 10,20,30,40,50,60,70,80,90,100,110,120,130,140,150,156. It was found that there were 48 noun –verb words with the percentage of 82.75% , 10 noun –adjective words with the percentage of 17.25%. And the most dominant type of inflectional suffix found in the novel The Murder at The Vicarage by Agatha Christie was noun –verb 48 word or 82.75 %