Morphemes and Word Formation Quiz

Morphemes that carry the content or meaning of a message.

• derivational

• bound

• lexical

• inflectional

Choose all grammatical categories of verbs (several answers possible)

• number

• case

• mood

• person

• tense

A word element that can stand alone as a word

• Morpheme

• Free morpheme

• Bound morpheme

The word "brunch" is an example of which type of word formation?

• Clipping

• Derivation

• Blending

What is the process of creating a word by shortening it called?

• Blending

• Backformation

• Clipping

Choose the correct type of word formation: rewrite

• compounding

• blending

• affixation

• loan translation

When do linguists use "zero morphemes"?

• when a word has no inflection

• when the absence of marked inflection is meaningful

• when a word is not in its plural form

• when they are talking about numerals

Which of the following words is an example of clipping? (several answers possible)

• Advertisement → Ad

• Mathematics → Math

• Photograph → Photo

• All of the above

Look at the examples. How do we call this morphological process?

______ morpheme is a morpheme that can occur independently in a sentence.