Derivation

What is the primary difference between inflection and derivation?

• Inflection changes a word's meaning, while derivation does not.

• Inflection modifies a word for grammatical purposes, while derivation creates a new word with a new meaning.

• Inflection occurs in nouns only, while derivation occurs in verbs only.

• There is no difference; they are the same process.

Determine if the following word is an example of inflection or derivation: "happiness."

• Inflection

• Derivation

Determine if the following word is an example of inflection or derivation: "walks."

• Inflection

• Derivation

What is conversion in morphological terms?

• Changing a word's meaning by adding a prefix.

• Changing a word from one part of speech to another without adding affixes.

• The process of inflecting a word for grammatical purposes.

• Forming compound words from existing words.

Which of the following is an example of derivation without word class change?

• "Run" to "runner"

• "Happy" to "unhappy"

• "Quick" to "quickly"

• "Teach" (verb) to "teacher"

In English, which of the following suffixes is commonly used to create adjectives?

• -able

• -ing

• -ed

• -ness

What is the term for adding prefixes or suffixes to a root word to create a new word?

• Assimilation

• Affixation

• Compounding

• Affixation

What is the primary function of affixes in derivation?

• To change tense.

• To modify meanings or functions of root words.

• To indicate number or gender.

• To create compound words.

Choose only the derivational processes.

• Happy → Happiness

• Play → Played

• Walk → Walks

• Act → Action

• Break → Broken