Morphology Assessment

A __________ is the smallest unit of meaning is a word.

• Phoneme
• Morpheme
• Meme
• Morphology

What is morphology?

• the study of word parts

• the study of word meanings

• the study of the structure of words and form

• the study of the spelling of words

Which word is the adverb in the following sentence? The clumsy horse trotted slowly down the track.

• clumsy

• horse

• trotted

• slowly

Pick the answer that has derivatives of the same root word.

• happy, merry, excited,

• good, bad

• car, truck, motorcycle, bicycle

• read, reread, readability, reading

Tags

CCSS.L.6.4B

A meaningful word part that can come before or after a root word.

• prefix

• suffix

• predicate

• affix

Tags

CCSS.L.6.4B

A meaningful word part that comes before the root word.

• prefix

• suffix

• predicate

• affix

Tags

CCSS.L.6.4B

A meaningful word part that can change the part of speech or make a word plural.

• prefix

• suffix

• predicate

• affix

Tags

CCSS.L.6.4B

The most important part of a word, gives basic meaning

• prefix

• suffix

• root word

• predicate

How many morphemes are there in the word 'intolerable'?

• 1

• 2

• 3

• 4

How many morphemes are there in the word 'immaturity'?

• 1

• 2

• 3

• 4