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MORPHOLOGY EXERCISES KEY

1. Identify the number of morphemes in each of the given words.


1. play 1 6. unconditionally 4 11. excitingly 3
2. replay 2 7. indecisive 3 12. deactivates 5
3. date 1 8. impoliteness 3 13. maltreated 3
4. strengthening 4 9. honesty 2 14. gentlemanly 3
5. weaken 2 10. cheaper 2 15. friendliest 3

2. Identify the bound morphemes in each of the given words.


1. speaker -er 6. delivery -y
2. kingdom -dom 7. revise re-, -vise
3. phonemic -ic 8. fertilizer -ize, -er
4. idolize -ize 9. dreamed -ed
5. selective -ive 10. undone un-, {-D2}

3. Underline the stem in each of the given words.


1. womanly 6. lighten 11. personal
2. endear 7. endangered 12. pre-war
3. failure 8. befriend 13. subway
4. famous 9. Bostonian 14. falsify
5. infamous 10. unfriendliness 15. unenlivened (life)

6. Describe the morphemes in the following quotations:


1. A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work.

day, worry, be, much, exhaust, week, work

a, of, than, a, of

adj forming morpheme -ing

verb third person singular present simple morpheme,


adj comparative morpheme

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2. With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.
new, day, come, new, new, strong, think

with, the, and

class-changing noun-forming derivational morpheme th,


class-changing noun-forming derivational morpheme

verb third person singular present simple morpheme s,


N plural -s

7. Classify each word as: S (simple), C-BB (complex with 2 bound forms), C-FB (complex with 1
free form) or Comp (compound).

1. Girl -ish C-FB 8. lioness C-FB


2. long S 9. high born Comp
3. terminate C-BB 10. preclude C-BB
4. porter C-BB 11. democracy C-BB
5. sweetheart Comp 12. spirit S
6. Connecticut S 13. Well-done Comp
7. react C-FB 14. receive C-BB

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