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UVA Morpho Syntax Test Practice

This document contains instructions and questions for a morpho-syntax test. It asks the test-taker to: 1) Compare and comment on the inflections of several words including cats, houses', men's, and trousers'. 2) Add the appropriate suffixes to free morphemes like "content", "sincere", and "please" to form nouns. 3) Express the sentence "What I dislike most is darning smelling old socks" using a labeled tree diagram showing its structure.

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UVA Morpho Syntax Test Practice

This document contains instructions and questions for a morpho-syntax test. It asks the test-taker to: 1) Compare and comment on the inflections of several words including cats, houses', men's, and trousers'. 2) Add the appropriate suffixes to free morphemes like "content", "sincere", and "please" to form nouns. 3) Express the sentence "What I dislike most is darning smelling old socks" using a labeled tree diagram showing its structure.

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UVA. Morpho-syntax test Practice Name: .................................................................. ............................Mark:.. 1.

. Compare the inflexions of the following words and comment on their forms and pronunciations: (a) cat cats cats cats (b) house houses houses houses (c) man men mans mens (d) trousers trousers (e) analysis analyses 2. Look at the table below and add the appropriate suffix (noun) to the free morpheme: (a) Content .. (b) Sincere .. (c) Please .. (d) Do .. (e) Wide .................................. 3. Using a labelled tree diagram express the sentence below: What I dislike most is darning smelling old socks 4. By means of examples show how the order of words in a sentence determines the relationship between them and results in different meanings. 5. Distinguish between simple,compound and complex words,and give examples of each.

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