Morphology Quiz

What is the study of how sounds are organized into the words of a language?

• Phonetics

• Semantics

• Syntax

• Morphology

What are the smallest units of words that carry meaning or grammatical function?

• Lexemes

• Graphemes

• Morphemes

• Phonemes

Which type of morpheme cannot stand alone as individual words?

• Derivational morpheme

• Inflectional morpheme

• Bound morpheme

• Free morpheme

What is an affix in linguistics?

• A type of semantics

• A type of syntax

• A type of morpheme

• A type of phoneme

Which type of morpheme helps to create new words and change the lexical category of a word?

• Free morpheme

• Bound morpheme

• Inflectional morpheme

• Derivational morpheme

How many inflectional morphemes are there in the English language?

• Four

• Eight

• Ten

• Six

What type of morpheme serves a more grammatical role such as prepositions and conjunctions?

• Lexical morphemes

• Functional morphemes

• Derivational morphemes

• Inflectional morphemes

Which of the following is an example of a free morpheme?

• Keyboard

• Antidisestablishmentarianism

• Unbuttoned

• Cranberry

What do functional morphemes connect within and across sentences?

• Phrases

• Sentences

• Paragraphs

• Words

Which type of morpheme cannot change the word class?

• Inflectional morpheme

• Free morpheme

• Derivational morpheme

• Bound morpheme