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"Morphology" Forms self-study exercises
Exercise # 1

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1. The study of the construction of words out of morphemes... A. morphemes

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   B. morphology
   
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2. Smallest linguistic unit that has meaning or grammatical function.
   A. bound morpheme
   B. free morpheme
   C. morphemes
   D. derivational morphemes
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3. Free morphemes can stand alone as words. A. True
   B. False
   
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4. Bound morphemes always attach to other morphemes, never existing as words themselves. They always carry a grammatical function. A. True
   B. False
   
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5. Morphemes that carry a semantic content as opposed to performing a grammatical function... A. Function morphemes
   B. Content morphemes
   
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6. An affix that attaches to the end of a stem; in English, suffixes may be inflectional or derivational. A. Prefix
   B. Suffix
   C. Affix
   
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7. Bound morphemes that change the meaning or syntactic function of the words to which they attach... A. Prefix
   B. Suffix
   C. Affix
   
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8. An affix that attaches to the beginning of a stem... A. Prefix
   B. Suffix
   C. Affix
   
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9. Morphemes that provide information about the grammatical relationships of words... A. Content morphemes
   B. Function morphemes
   
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10. Morphemes that change the meaning or lexical category of the words to which they attach... A. Derivational morphemes
    B. Inflectional morphemes
    
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11. Morphemes that serve a purely grammatical function, never creating a new word but only a different form of the same word... A. Derivational morphemes
    B. Inflectional morphemes
    
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12. Nondistinctive realizations of a particular morpheme that have the same function and are phonetically similar... A. phoneme
    B. Allophone
    C. Allomorph
    D. alternate morpheme
    
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13. -ed- He washed the car. A. Inflectional morphemes
    B. Derivational morphemes
    
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14. -s- He walks to school. A. Inflectional morphemes
    B. Derivational morphemes
    
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15. -tion- Radiation leaked out of the plant. A. Inflectional morphemes
    B. Derivational morphemes
    
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16. -ing- She is studying everyday. A. Inflectional morphemes
    B. Derivational morphemes
    
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17. -ly- Slowly, he ambled down the street. A. Inflectional morphemes
    B. Derivational morphemes
    
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18. -al- They occur at the margin of a word, after any derivational morphemes. A. Inflectional morphemes
    B. Derivational morphemes
    
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19. -est- That is the biggest fish I have ever seen. A. Inflectional morphemes
    B. Derivational morphemes
    
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20. -th- I could feel the warmth of the fire.

A. Inflectional morphemes

B. Derivational morphemes

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