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Morphology units 1-4

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is the root in the word counterargument?

a)

counter

b)

count

c)

argue

d)

argument

2.

Which of the following is NOT an inflectional form of break?

a)

broke

b)

breaking

c)

backbreaking

d)

breaks

3.

What is the root in the noun unreliability?

a)

un

b)

rely

c)

able

d)

ity

4.

Before an inflectional ending is attached to it, a morpheme or a sequence of morphemes is called ________.

a)

suffix

b)

root

c)

prefix

d)

stem

5.

What do we call a meaningful morphological unit of a language that cannot be further divided into smaller elements?

a)

word

b)

phoneme

c)

allomorph

d)

morphene

6.

Which of the following kinds of morphemes can stand by itself?

a)

affix

b)

root

c)

prefix

d)

suffix

7.

Which one of these does NOT have a cranberry morpheme:

a)

Twilight

b)

Kith and kin

c)

Raspberry

d)

Brighten

8.

The lack of a natural logical connection between the form of a word and its meaning is referred to as ________________.

a)

allomorphy

b)

predictability

c)

arbitrariness

d)

inflection

9.

The word adorable means 'very attractive and charming'.


This meaning __________ the contribution of the suffix -able ('capable of being VERB-ed')

a)

is a predictable effect of

b)

goes beyond

c)

is a regular case of

10.

The adjective with the opposite (antonymous) meaning of opaque is (a)   .

11.

The morpheme -th (in words like warmth, width, or length) is NOT _________________.

a)

productive

b)

derivational

c)

transparent

12.

An affix is a morpheme which cannot _______.

a)

stand alone

b)

attach to a root

c)

be pronounced

13.

In the words "diary" or "dziennik", the meanings 'DAY' and 'SOMETHING TO DO WITH (DAY)' are conveyed through the morphemes, while the meaning 'BOOK' is not _______________.

a)

productive

b)

transparent

c)

derivational

14.

The morpheme -th found in warmth and depth is the same as the morpheme -th in fifth or seventh.

a)

TRUE

b)

FALSE

15.

Allomorphs are _______ variants of a morpheme.

a)

non-contrastive

b)

transparent

c)

ungrammatical

d)

complex