Morphology and Syntax

What is a Morpheme?

• It is a sentence

• Something related with sounds

• Minimal unit of a sentence

• Combine sentences

Complete the sentence according to the text: A word is made up of____________

• Just 1 morpheme

• None morpheme

• Nothing

• One or more morphemes

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

Complete the sentence according to the text: 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 morpheme?

• There is not difference between them

• A free morpheme cannot stand alone as single words and bound morpheme doesn't need to be attached to another word.

• A free morpheme can stand alone as single words and 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

What are the parsing diagrams?

• Ways to connect words in a hierarchical order

• Words in a specific order

How to structure the sentence?

• Noun phrase (subject), verb phrase (predicate)

• Noun and pronoun

• Article and noun

• Verb and object

The syntax of the language contains...?

• The grammar

• The use

• The rules

• The larynx