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Morphology Practice Exercises

This document provides practice questions on morphology. Task 1 asks students to group words into free and bound morphemes, and identify whether bound morphemes are derivational or inflectional affixes. Task 2 asks students to draw bracket diagrams and tree diagrams for words. Task 3 asks students to complete blanks by stating morphological processes or creating new words using given processes, such as derivation, clipping, acronymy.

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Morphology Practice Exercises

This document provides practice questions on morphology. Task 1 asks students to group words into free and bound morphemes, and identify whether bound morphemes are derivational or inflectional affixes. Task 2 asks students to draw bracket diagrams and tree diagrams for words. Task 3 asks students to complete blanks by stating morphological processes or creating new words using given processes, such as derivation, clipping, acronymy.

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 UNIT 4:  PRACTICE (MORPHOLOGY)


 

Task 1. Consider the following words and answer the questions below.

loneliness White House undress  unthinkable immobility


decentralization fastest prefeasibility optionality justice
publicity  unexceptionally disobeys nationwide unbearable

Group the morphemes of these words into free morphemes and bound morphemes and state whether the bound morphemes are
derivational or inflectional affixes. Some examples have been done for you.

Bound morpheme
Word Free morpheme
Derivational affix Inflectional affix
Example:
Lone ly; ness  
loneliness
Example:
White , house
White House 
undress
unthinkable
immobility
decentralization
fastest
prefeasibility
optionality
justice
publicity
unexceptionally
disobeys
nationwide      
unbearable

Answer Key

Task 2. Draw Bracket diagram and Tree diagram and for the following words:

h idifi li ht d l t iti
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a. humidifier c. enlightened e. malnutrition
b. mistreated d. illogically f. premature

Answer Key

Task 3. Completing the blanks by either stating the morphological process that explains the creation of the new word OR
creating new words as suggested in the morphological process.

 Some examples have been done for you.

Original word New word Morphological process


Example: western westernize derivation
Example: gasoline gas clipping
(1)
adolescence adolesce

Radio Detection and (2)


acronymy
Ranging
(3)
dance, exercise dancercise

(4)
demonstration demo
 
(5)
graduate (v) graduate (n)

(6)
  mosquito (from Spanish)

(7)
like derivation

Genetically modified (8)


Acronymy
organism
(9)
burglar burgle

(10)
condominium condo

Answer Key

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