Reading by Design Morphimes

In the words "recollection, idealistic, and ex-prisoner", "re-, -ion, -ist, -ic, ex-, and -er" are _________.

• a free root

• a bound root

• an inflectional affix

• a derivational affix

The words “take” and “table” are called _____ because they can occur unattached.

• free words

• bound morphemes

• free morphemes

• inflectional morphemes

Morphemes that represent tense, number, gender and case are called ____________ morphemes.

• inflectional

• free

• bound

• derivational

Which of the following statements is Not correct?

• A word can be formed by two free morphemes.

• A word can be formed by a free morpheme and a bound morpheme.

• A word can be formed by two bound morphemes.

• A word can be formed by any two affixes.

More than one variant, which can realize some morphemes according to the position in a word, are termed __________ .

• phonemes

• allomorphs

• morphs

• phones

The meaning carried by the inflectional morpheme is _______.

• lexical

• morphemic

• grammatical

• semantic

_________ modify the meaning of the stem, but usually do not change the part of speech of the original word.

• Prefixes

• Suffixes

• Roots

• Affixes

There are three subtypes of affixes are: prefix, suffix and _______.

• derivational affix

• inflectional affix

• back-formation

• infix

_______ modify the meaning of the stem, but usually do not change the part of speech of the original word.

• Prefixes

• Suffixes

• Roots

• Affixes

Which of the following italicized part conveys the main lexical meaning of the word "understatements"?

• understatements

• understatements

• understatements

• understatements