Any algorithmic study of written English must sooner or later face the problem of unscrambling English affixes. The role of affixes is crucial in the study of word-breaking practice. In the automatic determination of the parts of speech (a central feature of automatic syntactic analysis), the suppressing action of affixes must be understood in detail. In the determination of English citation forms, complete lists of affixes are necessary. The inflection of English verbs is tied up with the existence of suffixes. .
