Learning About Morphemes

What is a morpheme?

• A root word

• A group of letters that has its own meaning

• an affix

• a base word

Tags

CCSS.L.1.5A

CCSS.L.1.5B

CCSS.L.K.5A

An affix that goes in front of the word.

Tags

CCSS.L.3.4B

CCSS.L.3.4C

CCSS.RF.3.3A

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.5.3A

What must every morheme have?

• One syllable

• an affix

• meaning

• A root word

Tags

CCSS.L.1.5A

CCSS.L.1.5B

CCSS.L.K.5A

A morhpeme that goes at the end of a word.

Tags

CCSS.L.1.5A

CCSS.L.1.5B

CCSS.L.K.5A

What do affixes always do?

• Create a closed syllable

• Make the word harder to spell

• Make a word have more than one syllable

• Change the meaning of the root or base word

Tags

CCSS.L.3.4B

CCSS.L.3.4C

CCSS.RF.3.3B

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.5.3A

What type of morpheme is "ed?"

• Affix

• Suffix

• Prefix

• Root word

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CCSS.L.11-12.4B

CCSS.L.9-10.4B

CCSS.L.K.4B

CCSS.RF.1.3F

What does the word reading have?

• a prefix and a base word

• a base word and a suffix

• a root word and a suffix

• a root word, a suffix and a prefix

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CCSS.L.1.5A

CCSS.L.1.5B

CCSS.L.K.5A

What does "unquestionable" have?

• a root word and a prefix

• a root word, a prefix and a suffix

• a base word and a prefix

• a base word, a prefix and a suffix

Tags

CCSS.L.3.4B

CCSS.RF.3.3A

CCSS.RF.3.3B

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.5.3A

What does the morpheme s, es mean?

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CCSS.L.11-12.4B

CCSS.L.9-10.4B

CCSS.L.K.4B

CCSS.RF.1.3F

What morpheme means doing in the present?

• ly

• s, es

• ing

• ed

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4B

CCSS.L.9-10.4B

CCSS.L.K.4B

CCSS.RF.1.3F