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Morphology is:

• the study of the sound system of language

• the study of smurfs and how they developed

• the study of the internal structure of words

The words ‘and’, ‘of’, and ‘her’ are:

• content morphemes

• function morphemes

• bound morphemes

The word ‘moisturized’ has how many morphemes:

• 3

• 4

• 5

• 6

The word ‘inflexibilities’ has how many morphemes:

• 3

• 4

• 5

• 6

Morphemes that can stand alone like ‘cat’ and ‘just’ are called:

• free morphemes

• bound morphemes

• inflectional morphemes

The English morpheme ‘-ize’, as in ‘moisturized’ is a/an:

• prefix

• suffix

• infix

• circumfix

The German morpheme ‘ge … t’, as in ‘gemacht’, is a/an:

• prefix

• suffix

• infix

• circumfix

Morphemes that change central meaning and lexical category, like ‘-able’ or ‘-ize’, are known as:

• derivational morphemes

• inflectional morphemes

• portmanteau morphemes

Morphemes that change grammatical meaning and are very productive, like ‘-s’ and ‘-ing’, are known as:

• derivational morphemes

• inflectional morphemes

• portmanteau morphemes

The word ‘wash-s-able’ is not allowed in English because:

• suffixes must be added after after prefixes

• inflectional morphemes must be added after derivational morphemes

• morphemes must be added in alphabetical order