Ch 3 Words & Morphology

Only words of the same parts of speech can be combined to form compounds.

• True

• False

The existing form to which a derivational affix can be added is called a stem, which can be a bound root, a free morpheme, or a derived form itself.

• True

• False

Compounding is a word-formation process through which new words are created by combining at least two bound morphemes.

• True

• False

Inflectional morphemes can either be free or bound.

• True

• False

In most cases, the number of syllables of a word corresponds to the number of morphemes.

• True

• False

Words such as “sitcom” and “workaholic” are created through ________.

• affixation

• compounding

• conversion

• blending

Which of the following ways of word-formation does not change the grammatical class of the stems?

• compound

• inflection

• derivation

• coinage

Which of the following words is not an open-class word?

• an

• open

• class

• word

Words such as “canopener” and “Sino-American” are created through ________.

• affixation

• compounding

• conversion

• blending

Which of the following acronyms is different from the others?

• CCTV

• EFL

• IELTS

• WC