Name: Dini Laetitia
NIM: 1209619002
Class: 19SA
Assignment for 15 December 2020
English morphology exercises about: open and closed class words, word root and stem, syntactic
category, suffixes, prefixes, affixes, free and bound morphemes, compound words and word
formation process in English.
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
powerful, agent, right, word, whenever, came, upon, one, intensely,
a, is, the, we, of, those, the,
right, words, resulting, effect, physical, well, spiritual, electrically,
is, as, and
prompt
Exercise 2
Identify the root in these words by underlining it and state which syntactic category it
belongs to:
Example: faster: adjective.
a. hushes: noun
b. kindness: noun
c. fried: adjective
d. gamers: noun
e. heavily: adverb
f. grandfathers: noun
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 morphemes:
ation, nation, pre, post, angle, ible, infra, out
Free morpheme Bound morpheme
nation, post, infra, out ation, pre, angle, ible
Exercise 6
Separate the affixes from the stems in the following words:
Example: faster = fast + er
Trains, succeeded, lighter, predetermined, retroactive, confusions, instructional.
Trains = train + s
Succeeded = succeed + ed
Lighter = light + er
Predetermined = pre + determine + ed
Retroactive = retro +active
Confusions = confuse + ion + s
Instructional = instruct + tion + al
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.
Answer: Yes, there are some English words that have a different meaning and different
pronunciation, but have the same words. Example, bow (ribbon/clothing accessories) and bow (a
weapon for shooting arrows), and bow (bent over, slouch) all three have a different
pronunciation.
e. Can different morphemes be pronounced identically? Give examples.
Answer: Yes. Example: leave (go away) and leaf (green things in plant). Back (behind) and bag
(used for carry things). Still (not moving) and steal (take other person’s property without
permission) etc.
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.
Exercise 9
Complete the process and identify the type of word formation in English:
Influenza flu Clipping
Teleprinter, exchanger telex
Megabyte meg Clipping
Random access memory RAM Acronym
A progress To progress Conversion
Black,board Blackboard Compounding
United States of America USA Acronym
Compact disc CD Acronym
Act action
