Conversion and Morphology Quiz

The pivotal element in the conversion process is……

• Meaning

• Spelling

• Morphology

• Grammar

True or false: conversion has happened if a word has changed structure and grammatical category

• True

• False

Which type of affixes is used to create new words or change the meaning or lexical category of existing words?

• Derivational affixes

• Inflectional affixes

In the word 'happiness,' what does the derivational suffix '-ness' change the base word 'happy' into?

• A noun

• An adverb

Definition of a 'morpheme':

• A minimal unit of meaning or grammatical function

• Understanding sentence formation

Which type of morpheme can stand alone?

• Bound Morphemes

• Free Morphemes

Pick the answer that has derivatives of the same root word.

• good, bad

• happy, merry, excited

• read, reread, readability, reading

A word part that goes at the beginning of a word and changes the word's meaning.

• Infix

• Prefix

• Suffix

Add prefixes to change 'Understand'

• Understanding

• Misunderstand

• Disunderstand

• Understandable

Add suffixes to change 'Music'

• Unmusical

• Musician

• Dismusical

• Musicer