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The document contains 10 exercises analyzing English morphology. The exercises involve identifying morphemes, classifying words based on their morphological structure, and determining if changes in word forms involve inflectional or derivational morphemes.

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The document contains 10 exercises analyzing English morphology. The exercises involve identifying morphemes, classifying words based on their morphological structure, and determining if changes in word forms involve inflectional or derivational morphemes.

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Exercise 1: Divide each of the following words into their smallest meaningful parts.

Landholder, demagnetisability, unconditional

Exercise 2: Identify the free morphemes in the following words: Kingdom,

strongest, follow, talkative, actor, meaningful

Exercise 3: Provide an analysis tree for each of the following words:

Thoughtless, meaningfulness, microorganisms, considerable, establishments, rewrites,


misleading, rearrangement.

Exercise 4: List the morphemes in each word below and state whether each morpheme is free
or bound.

Creating, poetic, reconsider, waiter, keys, incomplete, impossible

Exercise 5: English words can have more than one prefix, more than one suffix, more than
one of each.
a) Give examples for each case.
b) Divide these examples into root, inflectional or derivational morphemes.

Exercise 6: For each word below indicate whether the word is morphologically simple,
includes an inflectional affix or a derivational affix.

Colder, silver, lens, legs, reader, rotation, redness

Exercise 7: Identify the root in the following words and state its syntactic category

Example: Friendly: friend (noun)

Lamps, hinted, editors, grandfathers

Exercise 8: For each of the following bound morphemes, give two examples in which it
appears and determine whether they are derivational or inflectional.

Example: able: readable, eatable (derivational)

ity: (………….…….) er: (…………..…….)

ed: ( ) s: (………….…….)

Un : (………….…….) ing: (………….…….)

al: (………….…….)

Exercise 9: The past tense morpheme can be pronounced in different ways. Classify the
following words based on the pronunciation of their final “ed”

Crashed, hinted, reached, classified, called, divided, lived, needed, wasted, played
Exercise 10: The following pairs of words show allomorphy, identify whether it is lexical or
phonological.

Dogs – parts :

Foot – feet:

Worked – wanted:

Leaf – leaves:

Sheep – sheep:

Child – children:

Witches- fears:

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