MORPHOLOGY EXERCISE PART 1 (+KEY)

Identify the root in these words by underlining it and state which syntactic category it belongs to: Example: faster: adjective. a. hushes b. kindness c. fried d. gamers e. heavily f. grandfathers Exercise 3 A. Identify the suffixes by underlining them: a. singing b. unhappy c. mechanism d. trousers e. brother f. blackboard B. Identify the prefixes by underlining them: a. rewarded b. misfortune c. establish d. submit e. strawberry f. abnormal

MORPHOLOGY EXERCISE – PART 1

Exercise 1

Fill in the table using words from the text below: “A powerful agent is the right word Whenever we come upon one of those intensely right words the resulting effect is physical as well as spiritual, and electrically prompt.” MARK TWAIN Open class words Closed class words

Exercise 2

Identify the root in these words by underlining it and state which syntactic category it belongs to:

Example: faster: adjective

a hushes

b kindness

c fried

d gamers

e heavily

f grandfathers

Exercise 3

A Identify the suffixes by underlining them:

a singing

b unhappy

c mechanism

d trousers

e brother

f blackboard

B Identify the prefixes by underlining them:

a rewarded

b misfortune

c establish

d submit

e strawberry

f abnormal

Exercise 4

Identify the free morphemes in the following words by underlining them:

a kissed

b freedom

c stronger

d follow

e awe

f goodness

g talkative

h teacher

i actor

Exercise 5

Divide the following into free and bound sets:

ation, nation, pre, post, angle, ible, infra, out

Exercise 6

Separate the affixes from the stems in the following words:

Example: faster = fast + er

Trains, succeeded, lighter, predetermined, retroactive, confusions, instructional

Exercise 7

Use the words that you think are relevant to answer the following questions:

a Can a morpheme be represented by a single phoneme? Give examples By more than one phoneme? Give examples

b Can a free morpheme be more than one syllable in length? Give examples Can a bound morpheme? Give examples

c Does the same letter or phoneme-or sequence of letters or phonemes- always represent the same morpheme? Why or why not?

(Hint: you must refer to the definition of morpheme to be able to answer this.)

d Can the same morpheme be spelled differently? Give examples

e Can different morphemes be pronounced identically? Give examples

f A morpheme is basically the same as:

i a letter

ii a sound

iii a group of sounds

iv none of the above

Exercise 8

Compounds are often frequent in modern technical areas where new vocabulary is being created Find the compounds in the following passage:

Free Talker

Nokia 610 Car Kit

The cell phone stays by your side instead of your ear with Nokia's hands-free Bluetooth system An unobtrusive dash-mounted screen provides the same information as your cell-phone display, and you can effortlessly download contact info from your phone

A small console-mounted control unit with three intuitive buttons and a dial is but one way to manage calls and messages, which sound off through your car's speakers: Choose to use Nokia's decent voice-recognition software and neither hand has to leave the wheel

www.nokia.com

Exercise 9

Complete the process and identify the type of word formation in English: Influenza flu Clipping Teleprinter, exchanger telex

Megabyte meg

Random access memory RAM

A progress To progress

Black,board Blackboard

United States of America USA

Compact disc CD

Act action

ANSWER Answers 1

Fill in the table using words from the text below:

powerful - agent - is - right - word - come - intensely - right

words resulting effect is physical well spiritual

-electrically - prompt - as

A - the - Whenever - we - upon - one - of - those -

and

Answers 2

Identify the root in these words by underlining it and state which syntactic category it belongs to:

a hushes : Verb

b kindness : Adjective

c fried : Verb

d gamers : Noun

e heavily : Adjective

f grandfathers : Noun

Answers 3

A Identify the suffixes by underlining them:

a singing

b unhappy

c mechanism

d trousers

e brother

f blackboard

B Identify the prefixes by underlining them:

a rewarded

b misfortune

c establish

d submit

e strawberry

f abnormal

Answers 4

Identify the free morphemes in the following words by underlining them:

a kissed

b freedom

c stronger

d follow

e awe

f goodness

g talkative

h teacher

i actor

Answers 5

Divide the following into free and bound sets:

nation - post - angle - out ation - pre - ible - infra

Answers 6

Separate the affixes from the stems in the following words:

Train + s, succeed + ed, light + er, pre + de + termin + ed, retro + act + ive, con + fus + ion + s, in + struct + ion + al

Answers 7

Use the words that you think are relevant to answer the following questions:

a Can a morpheme be represented by a single phoneme? Give examples By more than one phoneme? Give examples

Yes, a morpheme can be represented by a single phoneme, like in: teacher (/ə/), aside (/ə/), erase (/ɪ/), angry (/i/)

Yes, a morpheme can be represented by more than one phoneme, like in: freedom (/dəm/), teacher (/titʃ/), talkative (/tɔk/)

b Can a free morpheme be more than one syllable in length? Give examples Can a bound morpheme? Give examples

Yes, a free morpheme can be more than one syllable in length, like in: follow (/fɑləʊ/), margin (/mɑ:dʒɪn/), characterize (/kæɹəktə/)

Yes, a bound morpheme can be more than one syllable in length, like in: aggravation (/eɪʃən/), popularity (/ɪti/), privacy (/əsi/)

c Does the same letter or phoneme-or sequence of letters or phonemes- always represent the same morpheme? Why or why not?

(Hint: you must refer to the definition of morpheme to be able to answer this.)

No, the letter (s) represents 3 different morphemes: plural (hats), 3rd person singular (hides) and the possessive (cat’s meow) Moreover, the plural morpheme

is represented by 3 different sets of phonemes /s/, /z/ and /iz/

d Can the same morpheme be spelled differently? Give examples Yes,

past tense morpheme

-ed

/d/ opened /t/ finished

the plural morpheme

-s

/s/ maps /z/ bags /iz/ dishes

e Can the same morpheme be spelled differently? Give examples Yes, site, cite and sight all of them are pronounced as /sait/ collector, teacher both

of the morphemes -er and -or are pronounced as /ə/

f A morpheme is basically the same as:

iv none of the above

Answers 8

Compounds are often frequent in modern technical areas where new vocabulary is being created Find the compounds in the following passage:

hands-free, dash-mounted, download, cell-phone, console-mounted,

voice-recognition

Answers 9

Complete the process and identify the type of word formation in English:

Influenza flu Clipping

Teleprinter, exchanger telex Blending

Megabyte meg Clipping

Random access memory RAM Acronym

A progress To progress Conversion Black,board Blackboard Compounding United States of America USA Abreviation Compact disc CD Acronym Act action Derivation