WORD STRUCTURE

1. What is affixation?

• 1. Affixation is the formation of new words with the help of affixes

• Affixation is the process of adding prefixes to base word

• Affixation is the process of adding suffixes to base word

• Affixation is the formation of old words with the help of suffixes

How many inflectional morphemes are there in English?

• 6

• 7

• 8

• 9

1. “The teacher’s wildness shocked the girls’ parents.”

2. In this sentence, how many lexical morphemes, functional morphemes, derivational morphemes, and inflectional morphemes?

• 5 lex, 2 func, 4 der, 2 inf

• 2 lex, 5 func, 4 der, 2 inf

• 1. 2 lex, 5 func, 2 der, 4 inf

• 1. 5 lex, 2 func, 2 der, 4 inf

Which group belongs to inflectional morphemes?

• 1. -s, -er, -ly, -ed

• 1. -ing, -est, -en, -ly

• 1. -s, -en, -ed, -ing

• -ing, -s, -ful, -er

What is the smallest unit in a language that carries meaning?

• Phoneme

• Morpheme

• Syllable

• Syntax

Which of the following best describes a word?

• A group of letters that makes a sound

• A grammatical rule

• A fundamental unit of language that combines sound (or its written representation) and meaning

• A punctuation mark

In this word "Unhappy", Un- is a prefix ?

• Yes

• No

Find affixes in the word "Unchangeable"

• 1. Un-: prefixes & -able: suffixes

• Un-: suffixes & -able: prefixes

The word "Boy" belongs to

• A Simple word

• A Derived word

• A Compound word

Which of the following words belong to the Compound word?

• Boy, Girl, Baby

•  Teacher, Student, Amusing

• Blackboard, Ladykiller,

  White-wash