What morpheme would you add to the word "respectful" to make its opposite?
-dis
Knowing a word means...
Knowing its form, its meaning and its usage!
Is the following statement true or false? The word "books" has a free morpheme and an inflectional morpheme
True! "book" is the free morpheme and "-s" is the inflectional morpheme that indicates plural!
The words "flip-flops", "bye-bye" and "teeny-tiny" experience the WFP called:
Reduplication
What word formation process do all the following words share? Demo (demonstration), cello (violoncello), hi-fi (high fidelity), ad (advertisement), info (information), flu (influenza)?
All of them are clipped words! Clipping!
How many morphemes does the word "pencil" have?:
Just one
If we can say "A star stars in a film shown at a theater", the word “star” is experiencing the WFP called:
Conversion because the same word is functioning as a noun and as a verb!
The word "notebook" has 2 free morphemes. Is this true or false?
It is true!. "note" (free morpheme) and "book" (free morpheme). Most compound words are formed by 2 or more free morphemes!
Is the following statement true or false: In the word "usefulness", there is a free morpheme (root) and 2 derivational bound morphemes.
True! "use" (root) "-ful" (derivational bound morpheme or suffix) "-ness" (derivational bound morphemes or suffix)
Words like "rainbow" or "greenhouse" experience the word formation process known as:
Compounding becasue the words have two free morphemes each!
A synonym of "grapheme" is "letter". True or false?
True! when you come across the word "grapheme", this is actually the same as "letter"!
What kind of morphemes are: "-ment", "-ly", "-al", "-ion"?
They are derivational bound morphemes or suffixes
Is the following statement true or false. Why? Conjunctions, Prepositions, Articles and Pronouns are examples of free morphemes.
Yes, they are. These are function words that can stand on their own. They do not need anything to have full meaning.
The word "sparsity" was formed by the combination of "sparseness" and "scarcity", so it was formed through a process of :
blending
What kind of morphemes are : "bi-", "anti-", "multi-", "mis-"?
They are derivational bound morphemes or prefixes.
There are 8 inflectional morphemes in English. Can you name 2 of them?
"-s/-es" (plural), "-s/-es" (third person in verbs), -ing (progressive), `s (possesive), -ed (past), -en (participle), -er (comparative) , "-est" (superlative)
What type of vocabulary items are: "take off", "put off", "put on", "come up with"?
All of them are phrasal verbs
How would you analyse the word "remake" morphologically?
The word "remake" is made of a prefix (-re) that means "again" and the free morpheme or root "make". Remake = to make again
Is the following statement true or false? why? "Suffixes can be derivational and inflectional"
True. Suffixes go after the root or stem of a word and they can be derivational like -ment, -al, -ful or inflectional like -s (for plural), or -ed (for past)
ICETEX, UNESCO, UNICA, TESOL are examples of abbreviations. The fact that they can be pronounced as one word gives them the title of :
Acronyms. These are the ones we can pronounce as one word!
If the same word can be a noun and a verb without changing its form... which WFP does the word experience?
Conversion! e.g "google" can be a noun and a verb without changing its form
The vocabulary items: "the bottom line", "rainning cats and dogs" , "it´s up to you" are: a) set phrases, b) variable phrases, c) phrasal verbs
A, they are set phrases since they consist of more than one word and they do not usually change
The smallest unit of meaning in language is called:
Morpheme
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