Choose and win

1. **What is a morpheme?**

• A) A type of word

• - B) The smallest grammatical unit in a language

• C) A complete sentence

• D) A part of speech

2. **Which type of morpheme can stand alone as a word?

• A) Free morpheme

• B) Bound morpheme

• C) Derivational morpheme

• D) Inflectional morpheme

3. **What is derivational morphology?

• - A) Changing a word’s grammatical category or meaning by adding a morpheme

• B) Adding morphemes to indicate grammatical information like tense or number

• C) The study of word formation

• - D) The process of creating new words by combining existing words

4. **Which of the following is an example of a bound morpheme?

• A) Cat

• B) Re-

• C) Quickly

• D) Dog

5. **Inflectional morphology serves to : ........

• A) Create new words

• - B) Adjust words for grammatical context

• C) Change the meaning of words

• - D) Form compound words

6. **What is compounding in morphology?

• A) Adding prefixes and suffixes to a word

• B) Forming a new word by combining two or more existing words

• C) Removing parts of a word to form a new one

• D) Changing the spelling of a word to alter its meaning

7. **Blending in word formation involves: .......

• A) Adding a prefix to a word

• B) Using initials to form words

• C) Reversing the order of morphemes

• D) Merging parts of two words to create a new one

8. **An acronym is:.....

• A) A type of bound morpheme

• B) A word formed from the initial letters of other words

• C) A blend of two words

• D) A word formed by removing parts of a longer word

9. **Backformation is ........

• A) The process of creating a new word by removing a real or supposed affix

• B) The addition of an affix to the beginning of a word

• C) A method of forming acronyms

• D) The process of blending words

10. **Which of the following is an example of inflectional morphology?

• A) The word "happiness" from "happy"

• B) The plural form "dogs" from "dog"

• C) The word "rewrite" from "write"

• D) The compound word "bookcase"