Morphemes Quiz: Free and Bound Morphemes

False (B)

Prefix, infix, or suffix.

<p>clipping</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>-s = Present third person singular -ed = Past tense -ing = Present participle -er = Comparative</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>meaning</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Dilapidated (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>False (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Free, bound, derivational</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>un- (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>you all</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Free = Can stand alone and have meaning Bound = Cannot stand alone and still have meaning Derivational = Create new words or change meaning</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>undoable</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A combination of affluence and influenza (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>True (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Blending</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>reduplication</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Blending = Affluenza Acronym = UMSCA Functional Shift = To friend Reduplication = Flump-flumping</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Flump-flumping (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>True (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Compounding</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Subjects (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>False (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Perfective aspect and progressive aspect.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>bare infinitive</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>3rd person singular = She naps. Past tense = He napped. Present participle = They are napping. Past participle = The homework is done.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>-er (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>True (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Indicate tense.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>this (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>False (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Personal, Possessive, Interrogative, Relative, Demonstrative, Indefinite</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>adjectives</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Subordinating (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Personal = Refers to specific persons or things Possessive = Indicates ownership Interrogative = Used to ask questions Relative = Provides more information about a noun</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>False (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>right before the exam</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To provide grammatical information about tense, aspect, or mood (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>False (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Pronoun</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>indefinite</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Quantifier = Most Indefinite = A Demonstrative = That Possessive = My</p> Signup and view all the answers

The smallest unit of meaning in a language.

A morpheme that can stand alone and have meaning.

A morpheme that cannot stand alone, but adds meaning to a word.

A morpheme that creates new words or changes the meaning or part of speech.

A language that uses primarily free morphemes to create words and phrases.

A language that uses primarily bound morphemes to create words.

English has become more analytic over time.

Modern English has competing forms for the second-person plural pronoun (e.g., you all, you guys, you folks).

Changes in word form indicating different grammatical functions.

Prefix, infix or suffix added to a word to change its meaning or function

Word formation process shortening a word, creating a shorter form.

Affixes attach to words as prefixes (before), infixes (middle), or suffixes (after).

Words that specify the noun they precede by indicating quantity, definiteness, or other features.

Identify the word that precedes and modifies the noun in a sentence.

Helping verbs that accompany main verbs to express tense, mood, or voice.

Identify the verb that helps the main verb in a sentence.

Different classes of words based on their function and meaning in a sentence.

Combining two or more existing words to create a new word with a specific meaning.

Combining parts of two words to create a new word.

Changing the grammatical function of a word, for example, using a noun as a verb.

Repeating a word or part of a word to create a new word or intensify meaning.

A word formed from the first letters of a phrase or series of words.

A sequence of letters spoken as separate letters instead of as a word.

This content explores various ways words are created and changed in the English language, illustrating a dynamic and evolving process.

The content shows examples of word formation processes like compounding, blending, functional shift, reduplication, acronym and alphabetism. Each example demonstrates how new words evolve from existing ones or phrases.

A word that modifies a verb, adjective or another adverb, providing more information about when, where, how, or to what extent an action is performed.

Adverbs can appear in various positions within a sentence, but they often come before or after the main verb or at the beginning or end of a clause.

A word that connects a noun or pronoun to another word in the sentence, indicating relationships such as time, location, direction, or manner.

A group of words that starts with a preposition and includes a noun or pronoun as its object, providing more information about a word in the sentence.

Words that connect words, phrases, or clauses, combining elements within a sentence.

Words that replace nouns, referring to people, places, or things without directly naming them.

Pronouns come in various categories, including personal, possessive, interrogative, relative, demonstrative, and indefinite.

Methods to identify nouns, often involving plural markers (-s), or derivational morphemes like -ion, -ism, -ity, -ship, -dom, -hood, -er/or, -an, -ist, -age.

Methods to identify adjectives, often involving comparatives and superlatives (more, most, -er, -est), or derivational morphemes like -al, -able, -like, -ful, -y, -an.

Changes in verb form to indicate different grammatical functions like tense, aspect, voice, and mood. Examples include bare (nap), 3rd person singular (naps), past tense (napped), present participle (napping), and past participle (napped).

Different locations where verbs can appear within sentences, such as auxiliary (can study), alone in imperative (STUDY!), subject (I left), or subject-object (I left the class).

Indicates when the action of a verb takes place relative to the time of speaking. English primarily uses past and present tense inflections, e.g., 'He naps' (present) 'He napped' (past).

Describes whether a verb action is completed (perfective) or continuous (progressive). Examples: 'I have eaten' (perfective) 'I am eating' (progressive).

Indicates the relationship between the subject of a verb and the action. English uses active voice (subject performs action) and passive voice (subject receives action). Examples: 'I made mistakes' (active) 'Mistakes were made' (passive).