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How many morphemes are there in the word terrorists?
three (terror + ist + s)
What kind of morpheme is the suffix in slowly?
bound or derivational
What are the functional morphemes in the following sentence? When she walked into the room, the doctor asked me if I had a sore throat or an annoying cough.
When, she, into, the, the, me, if, I, a, or, an
List the bound morphemes in these words: fearlessly
-less, -ly,
List the bound morphemes in these words: happier
-er
List the bound morphemes in these words: misleads
mis-, -s,
List the bound morphemes in these words: previewer
pre-, -er
List the bound morphemes in these words: shortening
-en, -ing
List the bound morphemes in these words: unreconstructed
un-, re-, construct, -ed
Which of these words has a bound stem: consist, deceive, introduce, repeat?
all of them (-sist, -ceive, -duce, -peat)
Which of these words contains an allomorph of the morpheme “past tense”: are, have, must, sitting, waits?
none of them (were, had, sat, waited)
Which word(s) in the following sentence would you put in a closed class? Bob brought hot donuts to class.
to
Which word(s) in the following sentence would you put in an open class? I put it on the shelf near you and him.
put, shelf
How many regular inflectional morphemes are there in English?
eight
