Morpheme is the smallest meaningful unit of a language and is always identified as a single syllable within a word.

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All free morphemes are able to stand alone. Some of these morphemes are part of function words that express grammatical function, also known as grammatical morpheme.

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Lexical morphemes largely consist of morphemes that also function as content words

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In many languages, when affixes are attached to a morpheme, they often cause “word-class shift” such as in “examiner ---> examiners”

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 “Unhelpful” is a word that consists of one root and 2 affixes.

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The stem of the word “cats” is “cat”, and the stem for the word “teachers” is “teach”

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The words “amuse”, “music”, and “musical” all have the same root.

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Some affixes such as “mal-“, “-ful”, and “-ic” can only be attached to Noun bases.

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Morphemes that give inflectional meanings in English are only limited to the number in nouns and tense in verbs.

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All bound morphemes cannot stand alone and must attach to other morphemes to convey meaning.

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