Inflectional/Derivational Morphemes Small Quiz

1- Which one is NOT true about derivational morphemes?

• they change the meaning of a root

• they carry grammatical meaning

• they carry semantic meaning

• they change part of speech of a root

2- Which affix is an example of a derivational morpheme?

• un-

• do

• -s

• -ed

3- Which is NOT true about inflectional morphemes?

• have only grammatical function

• always come before any derivational morphemes

• never change the part of speech of the root

• always suffixes in English

4- Which affix is NOT an example of an inflectional morpheme?

• -ed

• -ish

• -ing

• -s

5- Most nouns take the inflectional suffix _____ to make a plural noun.

• -x

• -ish

• -ize

• -s

6- Only some nouns take the derivational suffix ____ to make a verb.

• -s

• -ed

• -ing

• -ize

7- Which one is an example of an inflectional morpheme?

• -ize to form a verb from a noun

• -er to form a comparative adjective

• -ic to form an adjective

• -ly to form an adverb from an adjective

8- Inflectional morphemes do not change the words' meaning or class, they just add more ______________.

• Grammatical information to the word.

• Strategical information to the word.

• Information to the word.

• different meaning to words

9- Derivational morphemes can be either prefixes and suffixes and can _______________.

• change the meaning of the word, the spelling of the word and the words class.

• change the meaning of the word, the word class and can add information to the word.

• alter the tense that the word is in, i.e past, present and future.

• change the meaning of the word and the spelling of the word.

10- Inflectional and derivational morphemes are the two variations of ___________.

• suffixes

• bound morphemes

• free morphemes

• prefixes