Free Printable NLP

Worksheets

Name

Class

Date

1- Which one is NOT true about derivational morphemes?

they change the meaning of a root

they carry grammatical meaning

they carry semantic meaning

they change part of speech of a root

2- Which affix is an example of a derivational morpheme?

un-

-s

-ed

3- Which is NOT true about inflectional morphemes?

have only grammatical function

always come before any derivational morphemes

never change the part of speech of the root

always suffixes in English

4- Which affix is NOT an example of an inflectional morpheme?

-ed

-ish

-ing

-s

5- Most nouns take the inflectional suffix _____ to make a plural noun.

-x

-ish

-ize

-s

6- Only some nouns take the derivational suffix ____ to make a verb.

-s

-ed

-ing

-ize

8- Inflectional morphemes do not change the words' meaning or class, they just add more ______________.

Grammatical information to the word.

Strategical information to the word.

Information to the word.

different meaning to words

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

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

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

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

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