Morphemes

Which of the following is a free morpheme?

• -ing

• re-

• cat

• -ed

Which of the following is a bound morpheme?

• play

• dog

• -s

• run

What is the main difference between inflectional and derivational morphemes?

• Inflectional morphemes show grammatical relationships; derivational morphemes create new words.

• Inflectional morphemes change the meaning of a word completely.

• Derivational morphemes never change the word class.

• Derivational morphemes are always suffixes

Which of the following is an inflectional morpheme?

• un-

• -ed

• -ness

• re-

In the word happiness, what kind of morpheme is -ness?

• Inflectional

• Bound derivational

• Free

• Bound inflectional

Which word contains both a free morpheme and a bound morpheme?

• book

• cat

• reading

• air

Which of the following is a derivational morpheme that changes the meaning and part of speech of the root word?

• un-

• -s

• -ed

• -ing

3 examples of free morphemes

3 examples of words that contains free and bound morphemes

Make a new word using a bound morpheme for the free morpheme: "Play"