Morphology Review

It is a group of letters placed before the root word.

• prefix

• suffix

What is the best way to add a suffix to the word match?

• matchs

• matches

What is the best way to add a suffix to the word chop?

• chopes

• chops

What is the best way to add a suffix to the word pass?

• passes

• passs

What is morphology?

• the study of word parts

• the study of word meanings

• the study of the structure of words and form

• the study of the spelling of words

What is morphology?

• The study of the structure and form of words in language.

• A study of parts of speech commonly used in writing.

• The topic of study of a morphologist

• The study of something that shifts from one topic to the next.

A morpheme, or root, is ____________.

• a meaningful part of a word

• an affix that is attached to a word

• a word ending

• a part of speech

What does the morpheme -ist refer to?

• person who performs an action/believer

• name of a person

• money used by an ATM

• noise a bug makes

What in the world is morphology?

• I should have payed attention when we did "Word Mapping"

• The study of animals that morph into hamburgers

• the study of morphs

• The study of word parts that have meaning

Suffixes are added to words to change their meaning.

• True

• False