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English Morphology Answers - Part 1

English Morphology Answers - Part 1

English morphology answers about: open and closed class words, word root and stem, syntactic category, suffixes, prefixes, affixes, free and bound morphemes, compound words and word formation process in English.

Answers 1                     Exercise

Fill in the table using words from the text below:

Open class words
Closed class words
powerful - agent - is - right - word - come - intensely - right - words - resulting - effect - is - physical - well - spiritual -electrically - prompt - as
A - the - Whenever - we - upon - one - of - those - and 

Answers 2                     Exercise

Identify the root in these words by underlining it and state which syntactic category it belongs to:


a. hushes : Verb
b. kindness : Adjective
c. fried : Verb
d. gamers : Noun
e. heavily : Adjective
f. grandfathers : Noun

Answers 3                     Exercise

A. Identify the suffixes by underlining them:

a. singing
b. unhappy
c. mechanism
d. trousers
e. brother
f. blackboard

B. Identify the prefixes by underlining them:

a. rewarded
b. misfortune
c. establish
d. submit
e. strawberry
f. abnormal

Answers 4                     Exercise

Identify the free morphemes in the following words by underlining them:

a. kissed
b. freedom
c. stronger
d. follow
e. awe
f. goodness
g. talkative
h. teacher
i. actor.

Answers 5                     Exercise

Divide the following into free and bound sets:

Free sets
Bound sets
nation - post - angle - out
ation - pre - ible - infra 

Answers 6                     Exercise

Separate the affixes from the stems in the following words:

Train + s, succeed + ed, light + er, pre + de + termin + ed, retro + act + ive, con + fus + ion + s, in + struct + ion + al.

Answers 7                     Exercise

Use the words that you think are relevant to answer the following questions:

a. Can a morpheme be represented by a single phoneme? Give examples. By more than one phoneme? Give examples.

Yes, a morpheme can be represented by a single phoneme, like in: teacher (/ə/), aside (/ə/), erase (/ɪ/), angry (/i/).
Yes, a morpheme can be represented by more than one phoneme, like in: freedom (/dəm/), teacher (/titʃ/), talkative (/tɔk/)

b. Can a free morpheme be more than one syllable in length? Give examples. Can a bound morpheme? Give examples.

Yes, a free morpheme can be more than one syllable in length, like in: follow (/fɑləʊ/), margin (/mɑ:dʒɪn/), characterize (/kæɹəktə/).
Yes, a bound morpheme can be more than one syllable in length, like in: aggravation (/eɪʃən/), popularity (/ɪti/), privacy (/əsi/).

c. Does the same letter or phoneme-or sequence of letters or phonemes- always represent the same morpheme? Why or why not?
(Hint: you must refer to the definition of morpheme to be able to answer this.)

No, the letter (s) represents 3 different morphemes: plural (hats), 3rd person singular (hides) and the possessive (cat’s meow). Moreover, the plural morpheme is represented by 3 different sets of phonemes /s/, /z/ and /iz/.

d. Can the same morpheme be spelled differently? Give examples. Yes,

past tense morpheme
-ed
/d/
opened
/t/
finished
the plural morpheme
-s
/s/
maps
/z/
bags
/iz/
dishes

e. Can the same morpheme be spelled differently? Give examples.

Yes, site, cite and sight all of them are pronounced as /sait/. collector, teacher both of the morphemes -er and -or are pronounced as /ə/

f. A morpheme is basically the same as:
iv. none of the above


Answers 8                     Exercise

Compounds are often frequent in modern technical areas where new vocabulary is being created. Find the compounds in the following passage:

hands-free, dash-mounted, download, cell-phone, console-mounted, voice-recognition.

Answers 9                     Exercise

Complete the process and identify the type of word formation in English:

Influenza
flu
Clipping
Teleprinter, exchanger
telex
Blending
Megabyte
meg
Clipping
Random access memory
RAM
Acronym
A progress
To progress
Conversion
Black,board
Blackboard
Compounding
United States of America
USA
Abreviation
Compact disc
CD
Acronym
Act
action
Derivation

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  1. Submit is a free morpheme I think

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    1. -mit is a bound root, that is, it does not occur in isolation and it needs to be attached to another morpheme (prefix in this case) to acquire the meaning. Some other examples: commit, permit, ...

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