Write down the free morphemes and the bound morphemes of the following units.

5 Marks

Words Free Morpheme Bound Morpheme

1. Disappear
2. Illegal
3. Inaccurate
4. Government
5. Distribution

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(affixes, infix, prefix, root, suffix, content, functional, suppletion, lexeme, regular, irregular)

1. __________ means complying with a rule and forming in the same way
2. __________ is an affix that is inserted into a word.
3. __________ is a base to which bound morphemes can be attached
4. The stems of nouns, verbs, adjectives are called __________ morphemes.
5. __________ is a morpheme that is attached to something else to modify its meaning, e.g. un-
in unhappy and ness- in happiness.
6. __________ is an affix that is attached to the front of a word, e.g. pro- in proactive.
7. __________ an affix that is attached to the end of a word, e.g. plural -s on nouns
8. Prepositions, articles, pronouns, and conjunctions are called __________ morphemes.
9. __________ is a phenomenon whereby one lexeme is represented by two or more different
roots, depending on the context; for example, the verb GO is represented by wen(t) in the past
tense and go elsewhere.
10. __________ is an abstract grammatical entity , represented concretely by one or more
different inflected word forms according to the grammatical context. For example, the verb
“perform” has four inflected word forms: perform, performs, performing and performed.