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Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 7mins

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Class
Date
1.

This example belongs to which types of Allomorphs:  “the /ʌ/ in come is replaced by the /eɪ/ in came to signal the simple past”

a)

Additive Allomorphs

b)

Replacive Allomorphs

c)

Subtractive Allomorphs

d)

Zero Allomorphs

2.

Morpheme is the smallest………….. and meaningful unit in a language.

(a)  

3.

An allomorph is ‘any of the same forms of a morpheme’.

a)

True

b)

False

4.

Phoneme is the smallest contrastive unit in the sound system of a language.

a)

True

b)

False

5.

What type of allomorphs does the word “been” belong to?

a)

Suppletive Allomorphs

b)

Zero Allomorphs

c)

Replacive Allomorphs

d)

Additive Allomorphs

6.

Which of the following is true?

a)

A morpheme can be divided into further meaningful units.

b)

A word can be a morpheme, and all morphemes are words.

c)

Morpheme and Phoneme are both smallest units in the language.

d)

A phoneme is the smallest unit of sound in speech that has a meaning.

7.

It is believed that /–s/, /–z/, /–ɪz/ are ………allomorphs of the inflectional noun plural morpheme

(a)  

8.

The word “paper” has:

a)

two syllables – one morpheme

b)

one syllable – one morpheme

c)

one syllable – two morphemes

d)

two syllables – two morphemes

9.

Morpheme is related to the sound and pronunciation of the language.

a)

True

b)

False

10.

An allomorph can also be defined as a variant of a morpheme which occurs in a certain definable environment.  

a)

True

b)

False

11.

- go + the suppletive allomorph of {–D1} = went;

- be + the suppletive allomorph of {–S3} = is;

- so (a)   + the suppletive allomorph of {–er1} = worse;

12.

Which word belongs to Zero Allomorph?

a)

wrote

b)

dogs

c)

read

d)

go

13.

Additive Allomorphs is a sound used to replace another sound in a word.

a)

True

b)

False

14.

Syllables are different from morphemes in that syllables are parts of words that center on a vowel sound.

a)

True

b)

False

15.

The underlined part in “kindness”  is called a/an:

a)

morpheme

b)

prefix

c)

phoneme

d)

allophone

16.

Subtractive Allomorphs is

a)

something is deleted from a word

b)

a sound is used to replace another sound in a word

c)

something is added to a word

d)

there is a complete change in the shape of a word

17.

There are five types of allomorphs in English

a)

true

b)

false

18.

Morphemes are the constituents of (a)  

19.

Which of the following words contain one syllable- one morpheme?

a)

lady

b)

boy

c)

water

d)

desire

20.

Words are made up of morphemes.

a)

true

b)

false