Morphology challenge

A morpheme is

• The smallest unit of sound with meaning.

• The smallest unit of sound in a language.

• Any unit in a language that can stand alone.

• Any unit in a language that gets its meaning from another unit.

A morpheme that cannot stand alone is referred to as a _________ morpheme.

• Derivational

• Root

• Inflectional

• Bound

Identify all the derivational morphemes below:

• -er in teacher

• -er in higher

• Un- in undo

• -ed in repeatedly

Select all the inflectional morphemeS from the following:

• -es in boxes

• -ing in fling

• -es in faeces

• -ing in sitting

Which of the diagrams below is a correct representation of the internal structure of the word interdependently?

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Consider the word antidisestablishmentarianism. How many morphemes does it have?

• 11

• 6

• 9

• 5

Identify all the bound morphemes in antidisestablishmentarianism.

• Anti, dis, es, ment, Arianism

• An, ti, dis, ment, is

• Anti, dis, arian, ment, ism

• Dis, ment, arian, ism

Which of the following would be considered a class changing derivational morpheme?

• Un- in undo

• Un- in unhappy

• -ify in solidify

• -est in oldest

The morpheme in bold in the following is an example of a/an:

baddang: root ‘help’ v.

ka-baddang-an: ‘helpfulness’

• Infix

• Prefix

• Suffix

• Circumfix

The following in an example of a/an:

Fikas ‘strong’

Fumikas ‘to be strong’

• Prefix

• Infix

• Suffix

• Circumfix