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TRUE FALSE

Some suffixes, both inflectional and derivational, have


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homophonous forms.
If different morphs represent the same morpheme,
2 they are grouped together and they are called
allomorphs of that morpheme.
Inflectional and derivational morphemes form words in
3
different ways.
A compound word contains at least two bases which
4
are both words, or at any rate, root morphemes.
Unlike derivational morphemes, inflectional
5 morphemes do not change referential or cognitive
meaning
The term allomorph is used to refer to the phonological
6
realization or manifestation of a morpheme.
7 An infix is an affix inserted into the root itself.
8 Most roots in English are free morphemes.
Derivation refers to the process of changing or
9 converting the class of a word without changing its
form.
Conversion is formed by taking the initial letters of
10 some or all of the wordsin a phrase or title and reading
them as a word.
I.
II. Choose the correct answer to complete each statement below.
1. Morphology is
A. the study of the rules governing the sounds that form words.
B. the study of the rules governing sentence formation
C. the study of the rules governing word formation
2. Words can be divided into
A. allomorphs B. phonemes C. morphemes
3. In the English language, inflectional morphemes can be
A. prefixes and suffixes B. prefixes only C. suffixes only
4. In the English language, derivational morphemes can be
A. prefixes only B. infixes and suffixes C. prefixes and suffixes
5. A morpheme is
A. the smallest unit of a particular language
B. the smallest unit of a linguitics unit
C. the smallest meaningful unit of a word
6. Derrivational morphemes can change
A. the grammartical meaning of words
B. the meaning or parts of speech of words
C. the numbers and tenses of words
7. Both the comparative and superlative suffixes can be added only to
A. long adjectives B. short adjectives C. nouns
8. The suffix -ise is used to change into verbs.
A. nouns B. adjectives C. both nouns and adjectives
9. When sweet potatoes means the yellow kind, the expression cannot be divided and is therefore
a
A. complex word B. grammatical structure C. compound word
10. Complex words contain
A. two free morphemes B. one free morpheme
C. either two bound morphemes or a bound and a free morpheme
11. is a word formation process in which you put existing words together to create
new words.
A. Conversion B. Affixation C. Compounding
12. The addition of a word-forming affix is called
A. Conversion B. Derivation C. Clipping
13. involves shortening a word, so that condominium is shortened to condo, and
refridgerator become fridge.
A. Back-formation B. Blending C. Clipping
14. is the formation of words whose sound suggests their meaning, such as hiss and
peewee.
A. Compounding B. Antonomasia C. Echoism
15. Frisbee, sandwich are the examples of
A. Back-formation B. Borrowing C. Antonomasia
III.
Words Roots Derivational Affixes Inflectional Affixes
0. Reclassify class Ify, re
1. Disagrees agree dis s
2. Brighten bright en
3. Bigger big er
4. Meets meet s
5. Skillful skill ful
6. Covers cover s
7. Teacher teach er
8. Decided decide ed
9. Coldest colda est
10. Asks ask s
11. Standardise standard Ise
IV. Underline the roots of the following words in the following table
1 womanhood 11 naturalization
2 biomass 12 formally
3 dissolve 13 egoism
4 favoritism 14 unaffected
5 personality 15 infamous
6 organization 16 disenthrone
7 remake 17 normality
8 gangsterdom 18 agreeableness
9 befriend 19 motivating
10 idolize 20 classification

V. Identify the number of morphemes in each of the following words in the table below.
e.g. goer 2 morphemes undecided 3 morphemes
1 Interestingly 3 11 innermost 2
Counter/declar/ 3 3
2 12 friendliest
atio n
3 preprofessional 3 13 constructions 3
4 purification 3 14 gangsterdom 3
5 insufferably 4 15 reimbursement 4
6 hopefully 3 16 De/nationalize 4
7 expressionism 3 17 herbalists 3
8 irreplaceability 4 18 gruesomely 3
9 allomorphs 3 19 atomizers 4
10 ungentlemanly 4 20 In/support//able 3

VI. Write the meaning of the underlined bound morphemes.

1. semivowel 6. antifreeze
2. illegal 7. communist
3. imperfect 8. unisex
4. intervene 9. manuscript
5. intramural 10. circumfix

VII. Mark ( ) the following items in the table below as simple words, complex words,
compound words, and grammatical structures.
Grammatical
Simple words Complex words Compound words structures
0. eater X
1. at any other place X
2. review X
3. apparatus X
4. circumspect X
5. editorial X
6. labour force X
7. the early summer X
8. desk X
9. mannish X
10. convene X
11. advanced English X
practice
12. write
13. brain drain X
14. dust from sawing X
15. hope X
16. bus stop X
17. global warming X
18. clossure X
19. cook x
20. traffic lights X

VIII. State the word formation process of each of the following words in the table below.
Examples: UFO > acronym, Ad > clipping
1 camcorder Blending 11 smog blending
2 open-ended Compound 12 to button (the shirt) Version
3 sandwich borrowing 13 kodak Coinage (invention)
4 piano borrowing 14 PIN Acronymy
5 ID Acronymy 15 house-keep Compounding
6 hopeless Derivation 16 giggle Derivation
7 typhoon borrowing 17 chunnel blending
8 bath tub Compounding 18 teller Derivation
9 exam clipping 19 doc Clipping

10 plane 20 dorm
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