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Happiness Tiredness

I. The document discusses the meaning of bound morphemes in underlined words. II. It instructs to underline the roots of words in a table. III. It asks to identify inflectional or derivational morphemes in boldfaced examples and provide an example. IV. It provides a table to classify word types as simple, complex, compound, or grammatical structure. V. It contains a table to state the word-formation process for examples. VI. It contains statements to identify as true or false about morphemes and word formation processes.

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Happiness Tiredness

I. The document discusses the meaning of bound morphemes in underlined words. II. It instructs to underline the roots of words in a table. III. It asks to identify inflectional or derivational morphemes in boldfaced examples and provide an example. IV. It provides a table to classify word types as simple, complex, compound, or grammatical structure. V. It contains a table to state the word-formation process for examples. VI. It contains statements to identify as true or false about morphemes and word formation processes.

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I. Write in the boxes the meaning of each of the underlined bound morphemes. (1.

5
marks)

Example: remarry re-: again


1 submarine
2 antiwar
3 illiterate
4 stormy
5 interior
6 opponent
7 semiconductor
8 harmless
9 womanly
10 singer

II. Underline the roots of the following words in the table below. (1 mark)

1 proclaim 6 easiest
2 manipulation 7 constructionist
3 recommend 8 emphasize
4 intermediate 9 attribution
5 complimentary 10 vigilance

III. Mark () the boldfaced morpheme as Inflectional or Derivational morpheme and give
an example for each. (2 marks)

Inflectional Derivational Example


morpheme morpheme
0 happiness tiredness
1 (has) completed
2 reading lamp
3 (is) swimming
4 disable
5 enlighten
6 paths (n)
7 (has) undertaken
8 boredom
9 Janet’s mother’s
10 interaction

IV. Classify the following items with these symbols: Simple (S), Complex (Cx), Compound
(Cd), and Grammatical structure (Gs) by using tick (√). Complete the table below. (1.5
marks)[0.1 *15 = 1.5]
Kinds of words S Cx Cd Gs
Example: learners
1. phonological
2. unpredictable
3. cheese
4. rubbish bin
5. talented director
6. forget-me-not
7. work
8. pencil case
9. worldwide
[Link] supported
11. carefree
12. disappeared
13. fire alarm
14. sweet heart
15. sweetheart

V. State the word-formation process of each of the following words in the table below. (2
marks)

Examples: BBC > acronymy Ad > clipping


1 seasick 11 roly-poly
2 memo 12 warm-hearted
3 hawk 13 mastering
4 croissant 14 air-condition
5 IELTS 15 UNESCO
6 workaholic
7 super-duper
8 flu
9 chow mein
10 aspirin

VI. Mark (√) each of the following statements true or false. (1 mark)

TRUE FALSE
1 A morpheme cannot be divided into smaller meaningful
parts without violation of its meaning or without
meaningless remainders.
2 Morphemes which are replaced by other morphemes in
which there is a change of sounds are called ADDICTIVE.
3 Morphemes can happen to be identical to a syllable.
4 A FREE BASE sometimes can occur on its own but can only
be joined to the other bound morphemes.
5 A WORD is the smallest unit which can occur on its own in
speech or writing.
6 CLIPPING is the process of cutting off the beginning and the
end of a word, or both, leaving a part to stand for the whole.
7 BLENDING is the fusion of two words into one, usually the
first part of one word with the last part of another.
8 ACRONYMY is the process of deriving words by removing
what is thought to be a suffix from an existing word.
9 REDUPLICATION is the process of forming a new word by
doubling a morpheme.
10 GO --> WENT is the case of phonologically conditioned
replacive allomorph.

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