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Morphology Terms

Authored by Margaret Anderson

English

9th - 12th Grade

CCSS covered

Morphology Terms
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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Refers to the smallest unit of meaning. For example, in the word ‘helped’, both ‘help’ and ‘ed’ convey meaning and therefore both elements are ________. In this case, the ________ help can convey meaning on its own, meaning it is a free _______ whereas the _______ ‘ed’, while conveying that the action is in the past, needs to attach to another ________ to make sense, making it a bound ________.

plurality

person

morpheme

affix

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4B

CCSS.L.9-10.4B

CCSS.L.K.4B

CCSS.RF.1.3F

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Refers to the bound morphemes that indicate a shift in grammatical tense e.g. plurals and tense markers

inflectional morpheme

affix

prefix

derivational morpheme

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4B

CCSS.L.9-10.4B

CCSS.L.K.4B

CCSS.RF.1.3F

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Refers to the bound morphemes that change a word’s class or meaning e.g. suffixes such as -ful, -less, -able.

plurality

derivational morpheme

suffix

inflectional morpheme

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4B

CCSS.L.9-10.4B

CCSS.L.K.4B

CCSS.RF.1.3F

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Refers to the main word that others are built from using prefixes and suffixes.

affix

prefix

suffix

root or stem

Tags

CCSS.L.3.4B

CCSS.L.3.4C

CCSS.RF.3.3A

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.5.3A

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Refers to a bound morpheme that can be attached to existing words to create new ones.

affix

prefix

suffix

plurality

Tags

CCSS.L.1.5A

CCSS.L.1.5B

CCSS.L.K.5A

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Refers to an affix that is placed at the beginning of a root word. For

example, dis-, un-, anti-.

affix

prefix

suffix

irregular

Tags

CCSS.L.1.5A

CCSS.L.1.5B

CCSS.L.K.5A

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Refers to an affix that is placed at the end of a root word. For example, -ity, -ment, -tion.

affix

prefix

suffix

tense

Tags

CCSS.L.3.4B

CCSS.L.3.4C

CCSS.RF.3.3A

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.5.3A

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