Morphology in Contexts

What does Morphology mean?

• the study of or the science of

• thinking about thinking

• the study of the forms of words

• all of the above

Which of the following words does NOT contain a word part we have learned?

• Sociology

• Torture

• Progressive

• Passive

True or False:

A suffix will never appear at the end of a word.

• True

• False

Which answers are Prefixes? (choose more than one)

• pro

• ure

• logy

• pre

Which prefix is being used in all of these examples: pretest, preteen, predict, and precedence

• Pr-

• P-

• Pre-

• Pred-

What does the prefix pre- mean?

• Before

• During

• After

• Never

which suffix is being used in all of these examples: biology, sociology, entomology, and radiology

• Bio-

• -gy

• biology

• -logy

What does the suffix -logy mean?

• logic

• science

• the study of OR science of

• lazy

Which suffix is used in all of these examples: capture, exposure, procedure, feature, and conjecture

• -ure

• -re

• -ture

• none of the above

What does the prefix pro- mean? (choose two)

• Favor

• Backward

• Behind

• Forward