Inflectional and Derivational Morphemes

Inflectional morphology is the study of processes, including affixation and vowel change.

• True

• False

What are the categories of inflection?

• Number-Gender-Case

• Tense-Case-Person-Number

• Person-Number-Tense

• Number-Tense-Person-Case-Gender

Inflectional morphology deals with changes made to existing words and derivation deals with the creation of new words?

• True

• False

English has only seven inflectional suffixes?

• True

• False

Which of the following examples pertains to inflection?

• Cars-Boy’s-Played-Slower-Tallest

• Wonderful-Lively-Sadness

• Happily-Kindness-Understandable

• Loveable-Agreement

What is derivational morphology?

• It is the one that creates new words from a root or base word and changes the meaning of the word.

• It is the one that creates similar words from a root.

• It is the one that is added at the end of each word.

• None of the above.

What are the derivational patterns?

• Suffix, affix, prefix.

• Denominal, deverbal, deadjectival.

• Bound and free.

• All of the above

What are derived nouns?

• They are nouns that are formed from a verb, noun and adjective through various word formation processes.

• They are verbs that are formed from a verb, a noun and an adjective through various word formation processes.

• They are adjectives that are formed from a verb, a noun and an adjective through various word formation processes.

What are derived verbs?

• They are nouns that are formed from a verb, noun and adjective through various word formation processes.

• They are verbs that are formed from a verb, a noun and an adjective through various word formation processes.

• They are adjectives that are formed from a verb, a noun and an adjective through various word formation processes.

What are derived adjectives?

• They are adjectives that are formed from a verb, a noun and an adjective through various word formation processes.

• They are nouns that are formed from a verb, noun and adjective through various word formation processes.

• They are verbs that are formed from a verb, a noun and an adjective through various word formation processes.