Morphology Exercises!

there are three subtypes of affixes are prefix, suffix and _____

• derivational affix

• back-formation

• inflectional affix

• infix

Inflectional morphemes do not change the words meaning or class, they just add more ______.

• Grammatical information to the word.

• Information to the word

• Strategical information to the word

• Different meaning to words

Derivational morphemes can be either prefixes and suffixes and can _____

• alter the tense that the word is in, i.e past, present and future

• change the meaning of the word, the spelling of the word and the words class.

• change the meaning of the word, the word class and can add information to the word

• change the meaning of the word and the spelling of the word.

Only some nouns take the derivational suffix ____ to make a verb.

• -s

• -ing

• -ed

• -ize

Which is NOT true about inflectional morphemes?

• have only grammatical function

• always come before any derivational morphemes

• never change the part of speech of the root

• always suffixes in English

The meaning carried by the inflectional morpheme is _____

• lexical

• morpheme

• semantic

• grammatical

Morphemes that represent tense, number, gender and case are called ______ morphemes.

• inflectional

• bound

• free

• derivational

Most nouns take the inflectional suffix. ____ to make a plural noun.

• -x

• -ize

• -ish

• -s

Which affix is an example of a derivational morpheme?

• -s

• un-

• do

• -ed