Morphology Quiz

What is Morphology?

• The study of the syntax of words in language.
• The study of the structure and forms of words in language.
• The study of the meaning of words in language.
• The study of the sounds of words in language.

Whats is a morpheme?

• The smallest unit of a particular language

• The smallest meaningful unit of language
• The minimat item of a linguistic unit

• The minimal pair of a chosen word

How many types are there for the following sentence?

“The interrogation took a long time because the suspect kept introducing irrelevant arguments”

• 13

• 12

How many lexemes are there in the following sentence?

“I say now, just as I said yesterday, that the price of a wombat is high but the

price of a platypus is higher”

• 18

• 24

• 16

Which of the following word forms are categorized as lexical word?

• Noun, Pronoun, Determinant, Verb

• Noun, Adjective, Verb, Modals

• Noun, Verb, Adjective, Adverb

• Auxiliary, Possessive Pronoun, Conjuction, Preposition

Which words of the following question are open class word?

“What is your favourite movie?”

• favourite

• your

• movie

• what

Which words of the following question are lexical word?

“What do you think of a thriller movie?”

• thriller

• do

• a

• what

Which of the following ideas are TRUE about free morphemes and bound morphemes?

• Free morphemes have clear meaning by their own but bound morphemes do not

• Free morphemes belong to open class words but bound morphemes belong to closed class words

• Free morphemes are independent but bound morphemes are dependent to free morphemes

• Free morphemes and bound morphemes have lexical meaning

Which of the following groups do belong to the same lexeme?

• sings, songs, singer, singers

• sings, singing, sang, sung

• Revolve, revolution, revolved

• develop, develops, developing, developed

Which of the following examples does belong to inflectional morphology process?

• teach = teacher

• sweet = sweeter

• dent = dentist

• babysit = babysitter