Multiple choice

Øis the study of the internal structure of words. It explores how words are formed and how they relate to one another within a language.

• Morphology

• Morphemes

• Free morphemes

• Bound morphemes

Øthe smallest units in a language with some independent meaning and cannot be broken down into smaller meaningful bits.

• Morphology

• Morphemes

• Free morphemes

• Bound morphemes

ØThese can stand alone as words.They have independent meaning.

• Morphology

• Morphemess

• Free morphemes

• Bound morphemes

Cannot stand alone as individual word.

• Morphology

• Morphemes

• Free morphemes

• Bound morphemes

ØFree morphemess that carry the content of our utterances.

• Derivational

• Lexical

• Functional

• Inflectional

ØFree morphemes  that serve a more grammatical role connecting words together within and across sentences.

• Lexical

• Functional

• Derivational

• Inflectional

Øbound morphemes that help create new words with different meanings or parts of speech.

• Lexical

• Derivational

• Functional

• Inflectional

Bound morphemes that are added to lexical morphemes to indicate grammatical features such as number,tense,persson,case ,or gender.

• Lexical

• Functional

• Derivational

• Inflectional

Free morphemes of the word: ASSOCIATION

• Society

• associated

• associate

free morphemes of a word:Alliance

• Allied

• Allien

• Ally