Introduction to Morphology

What is the definition of a morpheme?

• A unit of sound in a word

• The smallest meaningful unit in a language

• A word that can stand alone

• A grammatical rule for sentence structure

Which of the following is a bound morpheme?

• Quickly

• Run

• And

• Aqua

Which word contains exactly three morphemes and includes both a prefix and a suffix?

• Unhappiness

• Buyers

• Running

• Teacher

Which of the following cannot stand alone by themselves as words?

• Free morphemes

• Lexical morphemes

• Grammatical morphemes

• Bound morphemes

Which morpheme changes the word class of 'friend' to an abstract noun indicating a relationship?

• -ship

• -ly

• -s

• -ful

Which of the following is a free grammatical morpheme?

• Geo

• Anti

• Circum

• At

What is the correct order of affixes in the word modernise's?

• Derivational before inflectional

• Inflectional before derivational

• Suffix before prefix

• Prefix before suffix

Which of the following is a lexical bound morpheme?

• And

• Serve

• Hyper

• Of

Which affix is used to form the comparative degree of adjectives?

• {COMP}

• {PRES}

• {SUP}

• {PLU}

She has never seen a lion before. What kind of inflectional affix is the underlined word?

• {POSS}

• {PAST}

• {PAST PART}

• {PRESENT PART}