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mini review 1 morphosyntax

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 14mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is the free morpheme of the word "calmly"

a)

ly

b)

calm

c)

y

2.

Morphology is

a)

A branch of Linguistics

b)

The study of words structures

c)

All of the above

3.

Free morphemes are

a)

Morphemes that cannot stand alone as a word, and must be attached to a free morpheme

b)

Words or morphemes that keep the same form every time used and are unchangeable, including conjunctions

c)

Words that are made up of only one morpheme and can stand alone as an English word

4.

Which affix is an example of derivational morphemes?

a)

un-

b)

-est

c)

-s

d)

-ed

5.

Which one is an example of an inflectional morpheme?

a)

-ize to form a verb from a noun

b)

-er to form a comparative adjective

c)

-ic to form an adjective

d)

-ly to form an adverb from an adjective

6.

Derivational morphemes can be either prefixes and suffixes and can _______________.

a)

change the meaning of the word, the spelling of the word and the words class.

b)

change the meaning of the word, the word class and can add information to the word.

c)

alter the tense that the word is in, i.e past, present and future.

d)

change the meaning of the word and the spelling of the word.

7.

What is morphology? Check all correct answers.

a)

Morphology is the study of the structure of words.

b)

Morphology analyzes the internal structure of words.

c)

Words are made up of morphemes.

d)

Morphology studied the sound pattern

8.

That part of a word-form that remains when all inflectional and derivational affixes have been removed is called...

a)

stem

b)

root

c)

affix

d)

suffix

9.

The smallest meaningful units in the structure of the language is called...

a)

morpheme

b)

phone

c)

root

d)

stem

10.

A bound morpheme that is added to the root to form a complex word is called...

a)

root

b)

affix

c)

free morpheme

d)

stem

11.

an affix that is added before the root

a)

prefix

b)

suffix

c)

infix

d)

morpheme

12.

an affix that is added after the root

a)

prefix

b)

suffix

c)

infix

d)

morpheme

13.

These bound morphemes to make words of a different grammatical category and are able to change the meaning

a)

inflectional morphemes

b)

derivational morphemes

c)

stem

14.

These bound morphemes which are not used to produce new words and the process suffixation doesn’t change the meaning

a)

inflectional morphemes

b)

derivational morphemes

c)

free morphemes

15.

Which affix is an example of inflectional morphemes?

a)

un-

b)

in-

c)

-s

d)

-able