Morphemes and Suffixes

^What is morphology?

• The study of the rules governing the sounds that form words

• The study of the rules governing sentence formation

• The study of the rules governing word formation

Which type of morpheme can stand alone?

• Free Morphemes

• Bound Morphemes

Definition of a "Morpheme"

• “A minimal unit of meaning or grammatical function.”

• " Understanding sentence formation."

• " Learning the correct pronunciation of words".

Two examples of Free Morphemes would be ___ and ___.

• free

• forgetful

• time

• stressed

Two examples of Bound Morphemes would be ___ and ___.

• surprisingly

• woman

• save

• inconsiderate

A word part that goes at the beginning of a word and changes the word's meaning. 

• prefix
• suffix

A word part that contains the central meaning of the word is a

• Prefix

• Suffix

• Root

• Verb

Lexical Morphemes are typically __(choose 3).

• nouns

• prepositions

• verbs

• adjectives

• articles

The picture above demonstrates the 8 Derivational Morphemes in the English language.

• True

• False

Bound morphemes are further divided into_______ and _______.

• Derivational

• Lexical

• Inflectional

• Functional