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Morphology ELA

Total questions: 24

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What's Morphology?

a)

The study of speech sounds

b)

The study of words structures

c)

The study of meanings

d)

All branches of Linguistics

2.

What are Morphemes?

a)

The study of words structures

b)

Suffixes

c)

Affixes

d)

Small units of words

3.

Word formation process includes....

a)

Combining process

b)

Shortening process

c)

Blending and reduplication process

d)

All of the above options

4.

What is Derivational morpheme?

a)

Words that have morphemes that change depending on the grammar and meaning of a sentence, including nouns

b)

Never change the part of speech of the word

c)

Often change the part of speech of the word

d)

No correct answer

5.

Which answer are prefixes? (choose more than one)

a)

pre

b)

logy

c)

tion

d)

pro

6.

Which answer are suffixes? (choose more than one)

a)

re

b)

ture

c)

bio

d)

ity

7.

Which of the following is a morpheme?

a)

ch

b)

st

c)

re

d)

th

8.

Which is a free morpheme?

a)

re

b)

ous

c)

s

d)

joy

9.

Which is a bound morpheme?

a)

tion

b)

form

c)

teach

d)

er

10.

How many morphemes does the word "unhappiness" have?

a)

2

b)

3

c)

4

d)

5

11.

How many morphemes does the word "reactionaries" have?

a)

1

b)

2

c)

3

d)

4

12.

Which of the following word contains only 1 morpheme?

a)

pretest

b)

receive

c)

against

d)

submit

13.

Which of the following word contains only 2 morphemes?

a)

happiest

b)

disqualified

c)

admits

d)

affixes

14.

Which of the following is free + free morpheme?

a)

reduce

b)

poetic

c)

blackboard

d)

deceive

15.

Which of the following is free + bound morpheme?

a)

teaching

b)

childhood

c)

seaweed

d)

football

16.

Which of the following is bound + free morpheme?

a)

enlarged

b)

unable

c)

keys

d)

waiter

17.

The process of combining the beginning of one word and the end of another word to form a new word is called.....

a)

Borrowing

b)

Blending

c)

Clipping

d)

Derivative

18.

The process of reducing a word such as a noun to a shorter version and using it as a new word such as a verb is called........

a)

Clipping

b)

Blending

c)

Compounding

d)

Backformation

19.

A new word formed from the initial letters of other words is called.....

a)

Clipping

b)

Compounding

c)

Acronym

d)

Borrowing

20.

The process of forming new words by adding affixes is called....

a)

Borrowing

b)

Backformation

c)

Compounding

d)

Derivation

21.

BRUNCH

a)

Blending

b)

Clipping

c)

Compounding

d)

Conversion

22.

HTML

a)

Acronym

b)

Clipping

c)

Derivarive

d)

Coinage

23.

BOOMERANG

a)

Blending

b)

Conversion

c)

Derivative

d)

Borrowing

24.

Dinning room

a)

Acronym

b)

Compounding

c)

Clipping

d)

Backformation