What is the morpheme that is added to some adjectives and indicate comparison?
-er
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Is the following statement true or false? why? "Suffixes can be derivational and inflectional"
True. Suffixes go after the root or stem of a word and they can be derivational like -ment, -al, -ful or inflectional like -s (for plural), or -ed (for past)
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What morpheme would you add to the word "honest" to make its opposite?
dis-
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There are 8 inflectional morphemes in English. Can you name 3 of them?
"-s/-es" (plural), "-s/-es" (third person in verbs), -ing (progressive), `s (possesive), -ed (past), -en (participle), -er (comparative) , "-est" (superlative)
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What kind of morphemes are : "bi-", "anti-", "multi-", "mis-"?
They are derivational bound morphemes or prefixes.
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What are the three dimensions of word analysis?
Form, meaning and usage
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What morpheme would you add to the word "respectful" to make its opposite?
-dis
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Three words in English that have the morpheme -dis are:
Answers may vary
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How would you analyse the word "remake" morphologically?
The word "remake" is made of a prefix (-re) that means "again" and the free morpheme or root "make". Remake = to make again
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Is the following statement true or false? Why? Conjunctions, Prepositions, Articles and Pronouns are examples of free morphemes.
Yes, they are. These are function words that can stand on their own. They do not need anything to have full meaning.
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What is the morpheme that is added to verbs and indicate a continuous action in English?
-ing
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Which are the morphemes that indicate plural in English?
-s and -es
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Is the following statement true or false? The word "books" has a free morpheme and an inflectional morpheme
True! "book" is the free morpheme and "-s" is the inflectional morpheme that indicates plural!