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Morphology and Syntax

Total questions: 19

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is a Morpheme?

a)

It is a sentence

b)

Something related with sounds

c)

Minimal unit of a sentence

d)

Combine sentences

2.

Complete the sentence according to the text: A word is made up of____________

a)

Just 1 morpheme

b)

None morpheme

c)

Nothing

d)

One or more morphemes

3.

What is a Bound Morpheme?

a)

It is a word element that cannot stand alone

b)

It is a word element that can stand alone

c)

It is a word

d)

I don't know

4.

Complete the sentence according to the text: A free morpheme __________________

a)

Cannot occur as separate words

b)

Is not a word

c)

Does not have meaning

d)

Can occur as separate words

5.

What is the difference between free and bound morpheme?

a)

There is not difference between them

b)

A free morpheme cannot stand alone as single words and bound morpheme doesn't need to be attached to another word.

c)

A free morpheme can stand alone as single words and bound morpheme needs to be attached to another word.

d)

Teacher knows

6.

A derivational morpheme_________________

a)

Makes an old word from new ones

b)

Makes a new word from old ones

c)

Does not change the part of speech or the basic meaning of a word.

d)

Does not occur "inside" any inflectional affixes

7.

Examples of inflectional morphemes can be

a)

Boy-Boys

b)

Chair-Tables

c)

Girl-Girls

d)

Shoe-Slippers

8.

What are the parsing diagrams?

a)

Ways to connect words in a hierarchical order

b)

Words in a specific order

9.

How to structure the sentence?

a)

Noun phrase (subject), verb phrase (predicate)

b)

Noun and pronoun

c)

Article and noun

d)

Verb and object

10.

The syntax of the language contains...?

a)

The grammar

b)

The use

c)

The rules

d)

The larynx

11.

Complete the sentence according to the text: There are many other ways of extending this structure by embedding subordinate phrases at different parts of the

a)

Rules

b)

Syntax

c)

Basic

d)

Basic structure

12.

The affixe "al" is added to a verb to give a/an

a)

Noun

b)

Adjective

c)

Verb

d)

All of this

13.

The syntax governs the structure of

a)

Sounds

b)

Meaning

c)

Sentences

d)

Words

14.

The syntactic categories are..

a)

Morpheme, phoneme and lexeme

b)

Subject, verb and object

c)

Syntax, grammar and relationship

d)

Phonetic, phonology and syntax

15.

Before a noun you have to use

a)

A verb

b)

A predicate

c)

An article

d)

A morpheme

16.

How do words mainly combine?

a)

Logical and systematic.

b)

Systematic

c)

Morphology and syntax.

d)

None of the above.

17.

The morphology of English unlike that of other languages is:

a)

Simple

b)

Difficult

c)

The most complicated.

d)

No one would understand

18.

Are the levels of phonology, syntax, semantics and pragmatics possibly inevitable?

a)

No

b)

Yes

c)

None of the above

d)

It isn´t in the text

19.

What does morphology do?

a)

It takes care of morphemes.

b)

It takes care of phonemes.

c)

Research about syntax.

d)

It isn't in the text.