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Morphology Exercises

This document contains a series of morphology exercises asking the student to analyze words by identifying morphemes, morphs, prefixes, suffixes, parts of speech, bound vs. free morphemes, inflectional vs. derivational morphemes, and morphological processes like derivation and inflection. The exercises provide examples and ask the student to perform tasks like underlining affixes, categorizing words, separating complex words into morphs, identifying past tense pronunciations, blending word parts, and shortening words.

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Morphology Exercises

This document contains a series of morphology exercises asking the student to analyze words by identifying morphemes, morphs, prefixes, suffixes, parts of speech, bound vs. free morphemes, inflectional vs. derivational morphemes, and morphological processes like derivation and inflection. The exercises provide examples and ask the student to perform tasks like underlining affixes, categorizing words, separating complex words into morphs, identifying past tense pronunciations, blending word parts, and shortening words.

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Morphology Exercises

NAME SECTION DATE


Exercise 1 Exercise 4
Divide the following words into morphemes (i) Identify the root in the words (4) by
and morphs. underlining it and (ii) state which syntactic
category it belongs to.
Examples: (i) truth
Example: friendly: Noun
Morphemes: {true} {th}
(4) a. lamps d. players
Morphs: tru+th
b. kindness e. editors
(ii) barefoot
c. hinted
Morphemes: {bare} {foot}
Morphs: bare+foot
Exercise 5
(1) a. research
For each of the following bound
b. butterfly
morphemes, determine whether it is
c. holiday derivational or inflectional and give tow
words in which it appears:
d. morpheme
Example: -able:
e. plants
Derivational
Exercise 2
Eatable; readable
Some of the words in (2) contain suffixes.
Identify the suffixes by underlining them. (5) a. –ity

(2) a. happiness d. brother b. –s

b. unkind e. flowers c. un-

c. freedom d. –ing
e. –al

Exercise 3
Some of the words in (3) contain prefixes.
Identify the prefixes by underlining them.
(3) a. unable
b. discourage
c. establish
d. strawberry
e. receive
Morphology Exercises
NAME SECTION DATE
Exercise 6 Exercise 8
The past-tense morpheme {PAST} (or {ed})
The component morphs of the can be pronounced in three different ways.
morphologically complex words in (6a) to Based on the pronunciation of the past-tense
(6e) have been separated by a hyphen (-). morpheme divide the following words into
Indicate which of these morphs are bound three groups.
and which are free, and which of the bound
morphs are inflectional and derivational. (11) a. crashed
b. hinted
Example: hit-s c. popped
hit: free d. accustomed
e. reached
-s: bound, inflectional f. classified
g. kissed
(6) a. en-courage-ment h. banged
b. king-dom-s i. lulled
j. lined
c. stud-ent-hood k. divided
l. fitted
d. anti-soviet-ism
m. flowed
e. read-ing-s

Exercise 9 Blend the following words.


Exercise 7
Divide the following words into the smallest Example: because – by+ cause
meaningful units and describe how the
words are formed, a. swipe-
b telethon-
i.e. describe the morphological processes
(derivation, inflection) involved. c. clash-

Example: unhappiness d. flop-


e. flurry-
The root is "happy". By adding the prefix
"un–" to the root "happy" we derive f. goon-
"unhappy". The morphological process
involved is called derivation. By adding the Exercise 10 Reduce or shorten the word by
suffix "–ness" to "unhappy" we derive the not changing the meaning of the word.
word "unhappiness". The morphological a. influenza –
process involved is called derivation. b. laboratory –
c. memorandum –
(7) a. kingdoms d. photograph –
b. discourages e. public house –
c. forgetful f. raccoon –
d. submitted g. reputation –

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