Morphemes
Authored by Diep Tran
English
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This quiz focuses on morphology, specifically the identification and analysis of morphemes within the English language. The content is appropriate for high school students in grades 9-12, as it requires sophisticated understanding of linguistic structures and word formation processes. Students need to grasp the fundamental concept that morphemes are the smallest meaningful units of language that carry either semantic meaning or grammatical function. The quiz assesses students' ability to count morphemes within words of varying complexity, divide words into their constituent morphological parts, and distinguish between free morphemes (which can stand alone as words) and bound morphemes (which must attach to other morphemes). Success on these problems requires students to recognize prefixes like "re-" and "pre-," suffixes such as "-ed," "-ing," "-er," and "-s," and understand how these elements combine with root words to create meaning. Created by Diep Tran, an English teacher in Vietnam who teaches grade 13. This quiz serves as an excellent tool for reinforcing morphological analysis skills and can be effectively used as a formative assessment to gauge student understanding of word structure. Teachers can deploy this resource as a warm-up activity to activate prior knowledge before diving deeper into etymology or vocabulary study, or assign it as homework to reinforce classroom instruction on morphemes. The quiz works particularly well for review sessions before more advanced linguistics units or as practice material for students preparing for language proficiency examinations. This assessment aligns with Common Core State Standards L.11-12.4b, which requires students to identify and correctly use patterns of word changes that indicate different meanings or parts of speech, and L.9-10.4b, focusing on identifying and using common affixes and roots as clues to word meaning.
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
10 sec • 1 pt
Choose the best answer:
A morpheme has
just meaning and no grammatical function
grammatical function or meaning
grammatical function but no meaning
None of them
Tags
CCSS.L.1.5A
CCSS.L.1.5B
CCSS.L.K.5A
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
How many morphemes are there in the following word?
Happy
2
1
3
Tags
CCSS.L.3.4C
CCSS.RF.4.3A
CCSS.RF.5.3A
CCSS.L.3.4B
CCSS.RF.3.3B
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
How many morphemes are there in the following word?
Friendship
1
3
2
Tags
CCSS.L.3.4C
CCSS.RF.4.3A
CCSS.RF.5.3A
CCSS.L.3.4B
CCSS.RF.3.3A
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
How many morphemes are there in the following word?
Magicians
1
2
3
4
Tags
CCSS.L.3.4C
CCSS.RF.4.3A
CCSS.RF.5.3A
CCSS.L.3.4B
CCSS.RF.3.3B
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
How can you divide the following word into morphemes?
REPEATED
repeat - ed
re - peat - ed
re - peated
Tags
CCSS.L.11-12.4B
CCSS.L.9-10.4B
CCSS.L.K.4B
CCSS.RF.1.3F
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
How can you divide the following word into morphemes?
OVERLOOKING
ov - er - look - ing
over - looking
overlook - ing
over - look - ing
Tags
CCSS.L.11-12.4B
CCSS.L.9-10.4B
CCSS.L.K.4B
CCSS.RF.1.3F
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
How can you divide the following word into morphemes?
PRESCHOOLERS
pre - schooler - s
pre - school - er - s
preschool - er - s
pre - school - ers
Tags
CCSS.L.11-12.4B
CCSS.L.9-10.4B
CCSS.L.K.4B
CCSS.RF.1.3F
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