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"Morphology" Forms self-study exercises
Exercise # 1
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The study of the construction of words out of morphemes...
A. morphemes
B. morphology
Answer-b
Smallest linguistic unit that has meaning or grammatical function.
A. bound morpheme
B. free morpheme
C. morphemes
D. derivational morphemes
Answer-c
Free morphemes can stand alone as words.
A. True
B. False
Answer-a
Bound morphemes always attach to other morphemes, never existing as words themselves. They always carry a grammatical function.
A. True
B. False
Answer-b
Morphemes that carry a semantic content as opposed to performing a grammatical function...
A. Function morphemes
B. Content morphemes
Answer-b
An affix that attaches to the end of a stem; in English, suffixes may be inflectional or derivational.
A. Prefix
B. Suffix
C. Affix
Answer-b
Bound morphemes that change the meaning or syntactic function of the words to which they attach...
A. Prefix
B. Suffix
C. Affix
Answer-c
An affix that attaches to the beginning of a stem...
A. Prefix
B. Suffix
C. Affix
Answer-a
Morphemes that provide information about the grammatical relationships of words...
A. Content morphemes
B. Function morphemes
Answer-b
Morphemes that change the meaning or lexical category of the words to which they attach...
A. Derivational morphemes
B. Inflectional morphemes
Answer-a
Morphemes that serve a purely grammatical function, never creating a new word but only a different form of the same word...
A. Derivational morphemes
B. Inflectional morphemes
Answer-b
Nondistinctive realizations of a particular morpheme that have the same function and are phonetically similar...
A. phoneme
B. Allophone
C. Allomorph
D. alternate morpheme
Answer-c
-ed- He washed the car.
A. Inflectional morphemes
B. Derivational morphemes
Answer-a
-s- He walks to school.
A. Inflectional morphemes
B. Derivational morphemes
Answer-a
-tion- Radiation leaked out of the plant.
A. Inflectional morphemes
B. Derivational morphemes
Answer-b
-ing- She is studying everyday.
A. Inflectional morphemes
B. Derivational morphemes
Answer-a
-ly- Slowly, he ambled down the street.
A. Inflectional morphemes
B. Derivational morphemes
Answer-b
-al- They occur at the margin of a word, after any derivational morphemes.
A. Inflectional morphemes
B. Derivational morphemes
Answer-b
-est- That is the biggest fish I have ever seen.
A. Inflectional morphemes
B. Derivational morphemes
Answer-a
20. -th- I could feel the warmth of the fire.
A. Inflectional morphemes
B. Derivational morphemes
Answer-b