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

Tags

CCSS.L.1.5A

CCSS.L.1.5B

CCSS.L.K.5A

A word part that goes at the beginning of a word and changes the word's meaning. 

• prefix
• suffix

Tags

CCSS.L.1.5A

CCSS.L.1.5B

CCSS.L.K.5A

Morphology studies ___.

• sentence formation

• word formation

• the meaning of words

• word pronunciation

Lexical Morphemes have meaning by themselves while Grammatical Morphemes do not.

• True

• False

Tags

CCSS.L.1.5A

CCSS.L.1.5B

CCSS.L.K.5A

Which type of morpheme can stand alone?

• Free Morphemes

• Bound Morphemes

English speakers recognize that the words dog and dogs are closely related. What does mean the letter "s"?

• Plurality morpheme "-s".

• That means apostrophe.

• Doesn't mean anything at all.

• The morpheme of the letter "g".

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CCSS.L.11-12.4B

CCSS.L.9-10.4B

CCSS.L.K.4B

CCSS.RF.1.3F

Morphology is the branch of ....

• Science.

• Phylosopgy.

• Linguistics.

• Office.

Lexicon is

• A branch of Linguistics

• the list of the words of any language

• None of them

What are morphemes?

• Suffixes

• Small units of words

• the study of words structures

Tags

CCSS.L.1.5A

CCSS.L.1.5B

CCSS.L.K.5A

A meaningful word part that comes before the root word.

• prefix

• suffix

• predicate

• affix

Tags

CCSS.L.1.5A

CCSS.L.1.5B

CCSS.L.K.5A