English morphology answers about: open and closed class words, word root and stem, syntactic category, suffixes, prefixes, affixes, free and bound morphemes, compound words and word formation process in English.
Answers 1 Exercise
Fill in the table using words from the text below:
Open class words
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Closed class words
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powerful - agent - is - right - word - come - intensely - right - words - resulting - effect - is - physical - well - spiritual -electrically - prompt - as
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A - the - Whenever - we - upon - one - of - those - and
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Answers 2 Exercise
Identify the root in these words by underlining it and state which syntactic category it belongs to:
a. hushes : Verb
b. kindness : Adjective
c. fried : Verb
d. gamers : Noun
e. heavily : Adjective
f. grandfathers : Noun
Answers 3 Exercise
A. Identify the suffixes by underlining them:
a. singing
b. unhappy
c. mechanism
d. trousers
e. brother
f. blackboard
b. unhappy
c. mechanism
d. trousers
e. brother
f. blackboard
B. Identify the prefixes by underlining them:
a. rewarded
b. misfortune
c. establish
d. submit
e. strawberry
f. abnormal
b. misfortune
c. establish
d. submit
e. strawberry
f. abnormal
Answers 4 Exercise
Identify the free morphemes in the following words by underlining them:
a. kissed
b. freedom
c. stronger
d. follow
e. awe
f. goodness
g. talkative
h. teacher
i. actor.
b. freedom
c. stronger
d. follow
e. awe
f. goodness
g. talkative
h. teacher
i. actor.
Answers 5 Exercise
Divide the following into free and bound sets:
Free sets
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Bound sets
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nation - post - angle - out
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ation - pre - ible - infra
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Answers 6 Exercise
Separate the affixes from the stems in the following words:
Train + s, succeed + ed, light + er, pre + de + termin + ed, retro + act + ive, con + fus + ion + s, in + struct + ion + al.
Answers 7 Exercise
Use the words that you think are relevant to answer the following questions:
a. Can a morpheme be represented by a single phoneme? Give examples. By more than one phoneme? Give examples.
Yes, a morpheme can be represented by a single phoneme, like in: teacher (/ə/), aside (/ə/), erase (/ɪ/), angry (/i/).
Yes, a morpheme can be represented by more than one phoneme, like in: freedom (/dəm/), teacher (/titʃ/), talkative (/tɔk/)
b. Can a free morpheme be more than one syllable in length? Give examples. Can a bound morpheme? Give examples.
Yes, a free morpheme can be more than one syllable in length, like in: follow (/fɑləʊ/), margin (/mɑ:dʒɪn/), characterize (/kæɹəktə/).
Yes, a bound morpheme can be more than one syllable in length, like in: aggravation (/eɪʃən/), popularity (/ɪti/), privacy (/əsi/).
c. Does the same letter or phoneme-or sequence of letters or phonemes- always represent the same morpheme? Why or why not?
(Hint: you must refer to the definition of morpheme to be able to answer this.)
No, the letter (s) represents 3 different morphemes: plural (hats), 3rd person singular (hides) and the possessive (cat’s meow). Moreover, the plural morpheme is represented by 3 different sets of phonemes /s/, /z/ and /iz/.
d. Can the same morpheme be spelled differently? Give examples. Yes,
e. Can the same morpheme be spelled differently? Give examples.
Yes, site, cite and sight all of them are pronounced as /sait/. collector, teacher both of the morphemes -er and -or are pronounced as /ə/
f. A morpheme is basically the same as:
Yes, a morpheme can be represented by a single phoneme, like in: teacher (/ə/), aside (/ə/), erase (/ɪ/), angry (/i/).
Yes, a morpheme can be represented by more than one phoneme, like in: freedom (/dəm/), teacher (/titʃ/), talkative (/tɔk/)
Yes, a free morpheme can be more than one syllable in length, like in: follow (/fɑləʊ/), margin (/mɑ:dʒɪn/), characterize (/kæɹəktə/).
Yes, a bound morpheme can be more than one syllable in length, like in: aggravation (/eɪʃən/), popularity (/ɪti/), privacy (/əsi/).
(Hint: you must refer to the definition of morpheme to be able to answer this.)
No, the letter (s) represents 3 different morphemes: plural (hats), 3rd person singular (hides) and the possessive (cat’s meow). Moreover, the plural morpheme is represented by 3 different sets of phonemes /s/, /z/ and /iz/.
d. Can the same morpheme be spelled differently? Give examples. Yes,
past tense morpheme
-ed |
/d/
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opened
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/t/
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finished
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the plural morpheme
-s |
/s/
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maps
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/z/
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bags
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/iz/
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dishes
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e. Can the same morpheme be spelled differently? Give examples.
Yes, site, cite and sight all of them are pronounced as /sait/. collector, teacher both of the morphemes -er and -or are pronounced as /ə/
iv. none of the above
Answers 8 Exercise
Compounds are often frequent in modern technical areas where new vocabulary is being created. Find the compounds in the following passage:
Answers 9 Exercise
Complete the process and identify the type of word formation in English:
Influenza
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flu
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Clipping
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Teleprinter, exchanger
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telex
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Blending
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Megabyte
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meg
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Clipping
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Random access memory
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RAM
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Acronym
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A progress
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To progress
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Conversion
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Black,board
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Blackboard
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Compounding
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United States of America
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USA
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Abreviation
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Compact disc
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CD
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Acronym
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Act
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action
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Derivation
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2 Comments
Submit is a free morpheme I think
ReplyDelete-mit is a bound root, that is, it does not occur in isolation and it needs to be attached to another morpheme (prefix in this case) to acquire the meaning. Some other examples: commit, permit, ...
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