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WorksheetsSyntax and Morphology Quiz
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 13mins
To turn the adjective ‘playful’ to a noun…
Add the prefix “un”
Add the prefix “dis”
Add the suffix “ness”
Add the suffix “ly”
“She was very upset at him”.
In this sentence, the word “very” is a(n)...
Adjective
Adverb
Determiner
Conjunction
To change the meaning of “respectful”...
Add the prefix “dis”
Add the prefix “un”
Add the suffix “able”
Add the suffix “ish”
“He was going to call but he forgot.”
In this sentence, the word “to” is a(n)...
Verb
Conjunction
Auxiliary
Preposition
“I just rang her this morning”.
‘Rang’ in this sentence is a(n) (a) .
The criteria we use for determining part of speech aren’t based on the meanings of the word, but on its __________.
Placement
Distribution
Word class
Sentence structure
The syntactic position of an auxiliary is before a/an (a) and no more than three auxiliaries may appear before it.
Parts of speech that allow new members are said to be __________.
open class
closed class
Affixes
Allomorphs
Lexical parts of speech provide the “content” of the sentence. Nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs are all lexical parts of speech.
True
False
Functional parts of speech provide the grammatical information. Functional items are the “glue” that holds a sentence together. Below are functional parts of speech EXCEPT
Determiners
Prepositions
Negation
Adverbs
(a) , which includes prefixes, suffixes, circumfixes and infixes, are always bound morphemes.
Morphophonemic rules determine the phonetic form of the plural morpheme and other morphemes of the English language.
True
False
A(n) (a) consists of two words with different meanings that are identical except for one sound segment that occurs in the same place in the string.
The morpheme used to express indefiniteness in English has two forms, ‘a’ before a word that begins with a vowel and ‘an’ before a word that begins with a consonant.
True
False
Allomorphs is a variation within morphemes due to the historical environment & phonological developments.
True
False
(a) is a common way to set a derived or inflected form, if any, when all affixes are removed.
A(n) (a) is the root or roots of a word, together with any derivation affixes, to when inflectional affixes are added.
Allomorphs are the __________ of a morpheme.
roots
variant form
stem
determiner
In phonological context, the variants of the regular plural morpheme “-s” are known as _________
allomorphs
affixes
suffixes
auxiliary
The attachment of bound morphemes to a stem or root is known as __________.
minimal pair
phonological pairs
affixation
suffixes
