Grammar: Morphology Quiz
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Refers to when there is more than one of something, usually indicated by the addition of an inflectional morpheme e.g. on regular nouns -s or -es is used to show _________.
A. irregular
B. regular
C. plurality
D. morpheme
Refers to a bound morpheme that can be attached to existing words to create new ones.
A. affix
B. prefix
C. suffix
D. plurality
Refers to the bound morphemes that change a word’s class or meaning e.g. suffixes such as -ful, -less, -able.
A. plurality
B. derivational morpheme
C. suffix
D. inflectional morpheme
Refers to words, typically nouns and verbs, which do not follow typical patterns grammatically. For example, the plural of mouse is mice making mouse an ________ noun.
A. prefix
B. regular
C. person
D. irregular
Refers to the smallest unit of meaning. For example, in the word ‘helped’, both ‘help’ and ‘ed’ convey meaning and therefore both elements are ________. In this case, the ________ help can convey meaning on its own, meaning it is a free _______ whereas the _______ ‘ed’, while conveying that the action is in the past, needs to attach to another ________ to make sense, making it a bound ________.
A. plurality
B. person
C. morpheme
D. affix
Refers to the changes in the structure of a verb that indicates the timescale. For example, the word ‘helped’ indicates that the action has already happened, making it past ______.
A. affix
B. tense
C. person
D. prefix
Refers to an affix that is placed at the beginning of a root word. For example, dis-, un-, anti-.
A. affix
B. prefix
C. suffix
D. irregular
Refers to words, typically nouns and verbs, which follow typical patterns grammatically. For example, to play is an example of a _______ verb as it uses typical suffixes to indicate tense e.g. -ed, -ing, -s.
A. plurality
B. irregular
C. regular
D. root or stem
Refers to the distinction between the speaker (first ______), the addressee (second ______) and others (third _____). ______ is reflected in the personal pronouns and verb forms and can also indicate singular or plural. For example, by writing ‘We helped’, the pronoun ‘we’ is the first _______ plural form indicating that although the writer was personally involved in an action, they were not alone.
A. person
B. tense
C. root or stem
D. morpheme
Refers to an affix that is placed at the end of a root word. For example, -ity, -ment, -tion.
A. affix
B. prefix
C. suffix
D. tense
Refers to the bound morphemes that indicate a shift in grammatical tense e.g. plurals and tense markers
A. inflectional morpheme
B. affix
C. prefix
D. derivational morpheme
Refers to the main word that others are built from using prefixes and suffixes.
A. affix
B. prefix
C. suffix
D. root or stem
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