The structures of words

A ... is a unit of language that carries meaning and consists of one or more morphemes which are linked more or less tightly together, and has a phonetic value.

• word

• syllable

• phoneme

• sentence

A word will consist of a ... or stem and zero or more ... .

A ... is the smallest linguistic unit that has semantic meaning

• word

• morpheme

• syllable

• sentence

Morphology is the study of the structure and form of words in language or a language, including ... , ... , and the formation of ... .

... occurs when a word has different forms but essentially the same meaning, and there is only a grammatical difference between them: for example, "make" and "makes".

... makes a word with a clearly different meaning: such as "unhappy" or "happiness", both from "happy". The "un-" and "-ness" are ... morphemes.