Linguistic

What are inflectional morphemes, and how do they affect the grammatical structure of words in English?

• Morphemes that create new words and change the lexical category of the base word.

• Morphemes that modify the tense, number, possession, or comparison of a word without changing its core meaning or lexical category.

• Morphemes that remove parts of a word to create new stems.

• Morphemes that express derivational meaning, turning verbs into nouns or adjectives.

Which of the following words contains an inflectional morpheme that indicates the superlative degree?

• Greater

• Happier

• Tallest

• Mostly

What does the “-es” morpheme in the word “studies” indicate?

• Plural

• Third-person singular

• Past tense

• Possession

How do derivational morphemes differ from inflectional morphemes in English?

• Derivational morphemes change the meaning or category of a word, while inflectional morphemes modify a word's form without changing its meaning.

• Both types of morphemes create new words, but derivational morphemes do so by adding prefixes only.

• Inflectional morphemes are used to create new words, while derivational morphemes are used for grammatical purposes.

• Derivational morphemes are always prefixes, while inflectional morphemes are always suffixes.

Which of the following words contains an inflectional morpheme that indicates the plural form?

• Happiest

• Running

• Dogs

• Quickly

What does the “-ed” morpheme in the word “walked” indicate?

• Continuous aspect

• Past tense

• Present tense

• Future tense

What grammatical function does the “-en” suffix in the word "taken" serve?

• Past tense

• Third-person singular

• Past participle

• Plural

In the phrase “has walked,” which morpheme indicates the present perfect tense?

• Has

• Walk

• -ed

• None of above

What does the “-ing” morpheme in the word “running” indicate?

• Future tense

• Past tense

• Present tense

• Continuous aspect

İn the word "slower," what function does the morpheme "-er" perform?

• İt is an inflectional morpheme marking the comparative degree.

• İt is an inflection morpheme marking the agent (person who performs an action)

• İt is a derivational morpheme changing the word's category from a verb to a noun

• İt is an inlectional morpheme marking the plural form