Grammar Pretest

What is a morpheme?

• The smallest unit of sound.

• The grammar of a language.

• The rules of a language.

• The smallest unit of meaning in a language.

What are the two types of morphemes?

• Free

• Fixed

• Bound

• Based

There are two types of bound morphemes. What are they?

• Inflectional

• Deriviational

• Grammatical

• Contextual

Select the 2 words with the inflectional morpheme.

• quickly

• beautiful

• candies

• running

Select the 2 words that have derivational morphemes.

• harshly

• jumped

• girls

• decompose

The boy is running away from his sister.

What grammar/verb tense does this sentence use?

• Present Progressive

• Past Tense

• Present Tense

• Past Participle

Select 2 prepositions.

• so

• beside

• but

• over

• and

Sally's shoes are blue.

Is this an example of a possessive or contraction 's?

• Possessive

• Contraction

He's doing a great job!

Is this an example of a possessive or contraction 's?

• Possessive

• Contraction

Select the example of an irregular past tense verb.

• stayed

• went

• knock

• hopped