Inflectional and Derivational

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

• inflectional

• free

• bound

• derivational

More than one variant, which can realize some morphemes according to the position in a word, are termed __________ .

• phonemes

• allomorphs

• morphs

• phones

_________ modify the meaning of the stem, but usually do not change the part of speech of the original word.

• Prefixes

• Suffixes

• Roots

• Affixes

Which list has all words with inflectional morphology?

• elements, linked, ordering, Persians, killed

• elements, linked, ordering, unkind, killed

• elements, linked, ordering, have, killed

• elements, linked, ordering, tend, killed

Which list has all words with derivational morphology?

• unkind, Indo-European, morphology, Persians, within

• unkind, Indo-European, morphology, thought, within

• unkind, Indo-European, morphology, these, within

• unkind, Indo-European, morphology, feature, within

In the English language inflectional morphemes can be...

• Prefixes, Suffixes and Infixes

• Prefixes, Suffixes

• Suffixes only

• Infixes only

In the English language derivational morphemes can be...

• Prefixes, Suffixes and Infixes

• Prefixes, Suffixes

• Suffixes only

• Infixes only

Describe the underlined affix:

oxen

• inflectional prefix

• inflectional suffix

• derivational prefix

• derivational suffix

A "base," or "root" is a morpheme in a word that gives the word its principle meaning

• True

• False

A derivational morpheme never changes the grammatical category of a word.

• true

• false