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    Assignment On Morphology

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    The document provides instructions for three exercises on English morphology: 1. The first exercise asks students to break words into morphemes, identify free and bound morphemes in sentences, and correct errors made by non-native English speakers. 2. The second exercise asks students to identify free morphemes in words and answer questions about the properties of morphemes, including whether they can be represented by single or multiple phonemes and syllables. 3. The third exercise asks students about words that can have multiple prefixes or suffixes, how dictionaries deal with inflected and derived words, and whether dictionaries list bound morphemes.

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    Assignment On Morphology

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    The document provides instructions for three exercises on English morphology: 1. The first exercise asks students to break words into morphemes, identify free and bound morphemes in sentences, and correct errors made by non-native English speakers. 2. The second exercise asks students to identify free morphemes in words and answer questions about the properties of morphemes, including whether they can be represented by single or multiple phonemes and syllables. 3. The third exercise asks students about words that can have multiple prefixes or suffixes, how dictionaries deal with inflected and derived words, and whether dictionaries list bound morphemes.

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    The document provides instructions for three exercises on English morphology: 1. The first exercise asks students to break words into morphemes, identify free and bound morphemes in sentences, and correct errors made by non-native English speakers. 2. The second exercise asks students to identify free morphemes in words and answer questions about the properties of morphemes, including whether they can be represented by single or multiple phonemes and syllables. 3. The third exercise asks students about words that can have multiple prefixes or suffixes, how dictionaries deal with inflected and derived words, and whether dictionaries list bound morphemes.

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    Assignment On Morphology

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    The document provides instructions for three exercises on English morphology: 1. The first exercise asks students to break words into morphemes, identify free and bound morphemes in sentences, and correct errors made by non-native English speakers. 2. The second exercise asks students to identify free morphemes in words and answer questions about the properties of morphemes, including whether they can be represented by single or multiple phonemes and syllables. 3. The third exercise asks students about words that can have multiple prefixes or suffixes, how dictionaries deal with inflected and derived words, and whether dictionaries list bound morphemes.

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    Assignment on Morphology

    Exercise 1

    1. Divide each of the following words into their smallest meaningful parts:
    a. landholder
    b. smoke-jumper
    c. demagnetizability.

    2. Identify the free and bound morphemes in the following sentences:


    a. The farmer kills the duckling.
    b. Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.

    3. Each of the following sentences contains an error made by a nonnative speaker of English. In
    each, identify and correct the incorrect word.
    a. I am very relax here.
    b. I am very boring with this game.
    c. I am very satisfactory with my life.
    d. Some flowers are very attracting to some insects.
    e. Many people have very strong believes.
    f. My culture is very difference from yours.
    g. His grades proof that he is a hard worker.
    h. The T-shirt that China drawing. (from a T-shirt package from
    i. China)

    4. In general terms, briefly discuss what English language learners must learn in order to avoid such
    errors.

    5. Some native speakers of English use forms such as seen instead of saw, come instead of came,
    aks instead of ask, clumb instead of climbed, drug instead of dragged, growed instead of grew.
    Are these errors? If they are, are they the same kinds of errors made by the nonnative speakers
    of English listed in Exercise 2? If not, what are they?

    Exercise 2

    1. Identify the free morphemes in the following words:


    a. kissed
    b. freedom
    c. stronger
    d. follow
    e. awe
    f. goodness
    g. talkative
    h. teacher
    i. actor
    2. Use the words above (and any other 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
    3. The words district and discipline show that the sequence of letters d-i-s does not always
    constitute a morpheme. (Analogous examples are mission, missile, begin, and retrofit.) List five
    more sequences of letters that are sometimes a morpheme and sometimes not.
    4. Just for fun, find some other pairs like disgruntled / *gruntled and disgusted / *gusted, where one
    member of the pair is an actual English word and the other should be a word, but isn’t.

    Exercise 3

    1. Can an English word have more than one prefix? Give examples. More than one suffix? For
    example? More than one of each? Give examples. Divide the examples you collected into their
    root, derivational, and inflectional morphemes.
    2. Check your dictionary to see how it deals with inflected and derived word forms. Does it list all the
    inflections of regular inflected words? Just irregular ones? Does it accord derived forms their own
    entries or include them in the entries of the forms from which they are derived?
    3. Does your dictionary list bound morphemes? Which kinds?

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