WorksheetsPre-test Morphosyntax
Total questions: 45
Worksheet time: 44mins
What is a morpheme?
It is a sentence.
Something related to sounds.
Minimal unit of meaning.
Combines sentences.
What is a Bound Morpheme?
It is a word element that cannot stand alone.
It is a word element that can stand alone.
It is a word.
I don't know.
A free morpheme __________________
Cannot occur as separate words
Is not a word
Does not have meaning
Can occur as separate words
What is the difference between free and bound morphemes?
There is no difference between them.
A free morpheme cannot stand alone as a single word, while a bound morpheme needs to be attached to another word.
A free morpheme can stand alone as a single word, while a bound morpheme needs to be attached to another word.
Teacher knows.
A derivational morpheme_________________
Makes an old word from new ones
Makes a new word from old ones
Does not change the part of speech or the basic meaning of a word.
Does not occur "inside" any inflectional affixes
Examples of inflectional morphemes can be
Boy-Boys
Chair-Tables
Girl-Girls
Shoe-Slippers
How should the sentence be structured?
Noun phrase (subject), verb phrase (predicate)
Noun and pronoun
Article and noun
Verb and object
The syntax governs the structure of
Sounds
Meaning
Sentences
Words
The syntactic categories are...
Morpheme, phoneme, and lexeme
Subject, verb, and object
Syntax, grammar, and relationship
Phonetic, phonology, and syntax
Before a noun, you have to use
A verb
A predicate
An article
A morpheme
Choose the bound morpheme:
tiger
at
and
im-
The free morphemes are divided into:
prefixes and suffixes
affixes and content words
content words and function words
prefixes and function words
The morpheme -ful in the words successful and beautiful is:
free morphemes
suffixes
prefixes
function morphemes
The morpheme -im in the words impolite and impatient is
free morphemes
suffixes
content morphemes
prefixes
Prefixes and suffixes correspond to:
Content words
Function words
Bound morphemes
Free morphemes
Bound morphemes are divided into:
content and function morphemes
affixes (prefixes and suffixes)
derivational and inflectional morphemes
inflectional and syntactical morphemes
The endings -er and -est of comparatives and superlatives belong to:
Derivational morphemes
Inflectional morphemes
Prefixes
Function morphemes
The underlined morpheme in the word "works" is:
an inflectional morpheme
a derivational morpheme
a suffix
a prefix
The underlined morpheme in the word "immature" is:
An inflectional morpheme
A derivational morpheme
A content morpheme
A function morpheme
In the phrase: "My mother has sent a letter", the noun phrases are:
My mother/a letter
My mother has sent/a letter
My mother has/sent a letter
mother/letter
A noun phrase can be formed by:
A verb and a noun
An article and a noun
A preposition and a noun
A conjunction and a noun
A prepositional phrase is formed by:
A preposition and a noun phrase
A preposition and a verb
A preposition and a conjunction
Two or more prepositions
The term comes from the Greek morphē, meaning shape, and lógos, meaning science.
Grammar
Syntax
Morphology
Whatever
The term comes from the Greek sýntaxis, which means 'with order'
Syntax
Morphology
Morphology and Syntax
Any
Which is the subject of the sentence?
My mom hates eating hamburgers.
My mom
mom
hates
hamburger
An example of a free morpheme is:
Less
Ship
Beauty
Ment
Storm is:
Adjective
Adverb
Noun
Verb
An example of a derivational morpheme could be:
Car - cars
read - reading
take - taken
exact - exactly
Derivational morphemes generally
Change the part of speech or the basic meaning of a word
Do not change the basic syntactic category
Express grammatically required features or indicate relations between different words in the sentence
I do not know, and it does not matter
Which of the following is an example of a free morpheme?
-ed
un-
dog
-ly
What is the correct definition of a morpheme?
The smallest unit of sound in a language.
The smallest unit of meaning in a language.
A group of words with a subject and a predicate.
A type of word that connects clauses or sentences.
Which of the following words contains a bound morpheme?
Cats
Run
Jump
Play
Identify the derivational morpheme in the word 'happiness'.
-ness
happy
-s
hap-
Which of the following processes involves the combination of two or more morphemes to form a new word?
Compounding
Inflection
Reduplication
Suppletion
What is the role of a noun phrase (NP) in a sentence?
It modifies the verb.
It typically acts as the subject or object.
It links clauses together.
It expresses a state of being.
Which sentence has the correct word order for English syntax?
She the book reads.
The book reads she.
Reads she the book.
She reads the book.
Which of the following sentences contains a subordinate clause?
She went to the store.
Although she was tired, she went to the store.
She and her friend went to the store.
She is tired.
Which of the following best describes the function of the verb phrase (VP) in a sentence?
It expresses the action or state of the subject.
It provides additional information about the noun.
It links the subject to the predicate.
It shows the relationship between clauses.
Which of the following sentences includes a relative clause?
The book that I borrowed is interesting.
I borrowed a book.
He is a teacher.
She reads every day.
Identify the subject in the following sentence: Dogs bark loudly at night.
Loudly
At night
Bark
Dogs
Which of the following words is formed by prefixation?
happiness
disagree
teacher
friendly
Which process forms the word 'modernize'?
prefixation
suffixation
compounding
blending
Which word is formed through compounding?
careful
intentional
unhappy
notebook
The word ‘brunch’ (breakfast + lunch) is an example of:
back-formation
conversion
blending
clipping
The word ‘exam’ from ‘examination’ is formed by:
clipping
compounding
coinage
acronym
