Prepared by : Azemir Azalida Nur Atiqah NurulFarhah Siti Norsafiah Noor Badariah

Morpheme s

Free Morpheme s

Bound Morpheme s

Derivationa l

Inflectional

A morpheme is a minimal unit of meaning or grammatical function.

Example: Tourists
-tour (one minimal unit) -ist (meaning person who does something) -s (a third unit of grammatical function indicating plurality)

The morphemes that can stand alone as words.

cat

table

create

walk

happy

Those that can not be used independently but have to be combined with other morphemes, either free or bound, to form a word.
Inflectional Derivational
Derivational morphemes create new words. They derive new words from other words. Inflectional morphemes do not change meanings or parts of speech, but instead simply make minor grammatical changes necessary for agreement with other words.

unhappy un + happy

happiness happy + ness

Derivational morphemes dis-, ex-, in-, pre-, un-, -er, -ness, ly,

preview pre + view

friendly friend + ly

cats cat + s

cooler cool + er
Inflectional morphemes -s, -ed, -ing, - en, s, -'s, -er, -est

reading read + ing

walked walk + ed

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