PRACTICE EXERCISES

Ex.1. Consider the following words and answer the questions below.
a) loneliness b) White House c) unreliable d) anti-aging pills
e) immobility f) sweeteners g) easiest h) hunger strikers
i) unhappiness j) lovelier k) optionality l) independently
Group the morphemes of these words into free morphemes and bound
morphemes and state whether the bound morphemes are derivational or
inflectional affixes.
The first two words (loneliness and White House) have been done for you
Free Bound morpheme
Word Derivational affix Inflectional affix
morpheme
lone ly, ness Ø
Loneliness
White House White, house Ø Ø
Unreliable rely Un,able
Anti-aging pills Anti, age,pill ing s
immobility mobile Im,ity
sweeteners sweeten er s

Ex.2.
Consider the following words and answer the questions below
a. honeymoon e. naked i. barriers m. optionality
b. impossibility f. unbearable j. fastest n. prettier
c. comfortable g. justice k. publicity o. communicate
d. examinees h. unexceptionally l. disobeys p. nationwide
1) For each word, determine whether it is simple or complex
2) Circle all the bound morphemes. Underline all of the roots
3) Cross out all inflectional morphemes

Ex.3.
Consider the following words
a. postmodifiers d. identifiable g. malnutrition
b. delightful e. mistreated h. illogically
c. disobeys f. spiteful i. derivational
1) Draw a tree structure to each word
2) Establish the base and the root for each word

Ex.4.
Fill in the blanks with suitable words or phrases suggested below in order to
make the passages meaningful (some words can be used twice) (3ms)

affixes, bases, bound, bound, derivational, free, independent, infixes,

inflectional, meaningful, morphemes, prefixes, single, suffixes, syllables, verb,
morphology

-----0 ------ is the arrangement and relationships of the smallest ------1------ units
in a language. These minimum units of meaning are called -----2-------. Note that
morphemes are not identical to ----3------: the form don't has one syllable but
two -----4--------, do and not. Conversely, the word Wisconsin has three syllables
but is a ------5-------- morpheme.
It is often useful to distinguish between -----6-----and ------7-------morphemes.
---------8-------- morphemes can be used alone as ------9------- words - for
example, take, for, each, the, panda. ----10------- morphemes form words only
when attached to at least one other morpheme; re-, dis-, un-, -ing, -ful, and –tion
are all bound morphemes. The most familiar bound morphemes are -----11-------
(that is, prefixes and suffixes), but even -----12-------- (forms to which affixes are
attached) can be bound. An example of a bound base is the –cept of such words
as except, accept, deceptive, and reception.
Some languages also have ------13---------, which appear inside a word, but these
are not important for English. Another classification of affixes distinguishes
-------14-----and -----15------affixes. For instance, the -s used to form plurals and
the –ed used to indicate past tense are -------16-------- affixes.
--------17--------- affixes may be either prefixes or suffixes. Most derivational
------18--------- simply change the meaning of the word to which they are
attached (uniform, transplant, microwave, unbelievable, desensitize).
Derivational ------19------ normally change the part-of-speech category and may
also change the meaning of the word to which they are attached. For example,
-ify in codify changes the noun code to a -----20-------.

Ex.5.
Represent the internal structure of the following words using tree structure
and bracket diagram
1. undifferentiated (Adj)
2. underdeveloped (Adj)