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Worksheetsmorphology chapter 1
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 10mins
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1.
What is morpheme?
a)
the smallest unit of language that has its own meaning
b)
the biggest unit of language that has its own meaning
c)
the smallest unit of language that has no meaning
d)
the smallest unit of language that is meaningless
2.
Words that consist of only one morpheme can be termed
a)
regular words
b)
simplex words
c)
complex words
d)
compound words
3.
Words that are made up of more than one morpheme are called ...
a)
regular words
b)
simplex words
c)
complex words
d)
compound words
4.
Below are Simplex words except .....
a)
murmur
b)
giraffe
c)
fraud
d)
prewash
5.
Below are Complex words except ...
a)
opposition
b)
crystallize
c)
pistachio
d)
blackboard
6.
How many word tokens occur in the following sentence?
My friend and I walk to class together, because our classes are in the same building and we dislike walking alone.
My friend and I walk to class together, because our classes are in the same building and we dislike walking alone.
a)
20
b)
21
c)
22
d)
23
7.
How many lexemes occur in the following sentence?
My friend and I walk to class together, because our classes are in the same building and we dislike walking alone.
My friend and I walk to class together, because our classes are in the same building and we dislike walking alone.
a)
16
b)
17
c)
18
d)
19
8.
How many word types occur in the following sentence?
My friend and I walk to class together, because our classes are in the same building and we dislike walking alone.
My friend and I walk to class together, because our classes are in the same building and we dislike walking alone.
a)
18
b)
19
c)
20
d)
21
9.
One reason for having morphology is to form new lexemes from old ones. We will refer to this as ...
a)
type formation
b)
token formation
c)
category formation
d)
lexeme formation
10.
The lexeme WALK has forms like walk, walks, walked, walking that can be used in different grammatical contexts. When we change the form of a word so that it fits in a particular grammatical context, we are concerned with what linguists call ...
a)
derivation
b)
inflection
c)
morpheme
d)
lexeme
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