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An English example: the noun ''driver'', derived from the verb ''to drive''. ''-er'' is the common English agent noun-forming suffix.

Usually, ''derived'' in the above definition has the strict sense attached to it in Morphology , i.e., the Derivation takes as an input a Lexeme and produces a new lexeme. However, the classification of Morpheme s into derivational morphemes and Inflection al ones is not generally a theoretical question that is straightforward, and different authors can make different decisions as to the general theoretical principles of the classification as well as to the actual classification of morphemes presented in a grammar of some Language (for example, of the agent noun-forming morpheme).