REVISION TEST 8

I/TRUE/FALSE: Decide whether each of the following sentences

is either TRUE (T) or FALSE (F). Write the letter (T) or (F) in
the lines in front of the numbers.

_F __ 1. Linguistics is a component of Grammar.

__F_ 2. Descriptive grammar aimed to lay down rules for language
usage and to set up a standard for correct use.
_T__ 3. The morpheme –er in singer and skinner have the same
phonological representation.
_T__4.Derivational affixes change or don’t change the parts of
speech and add new meanings to the words to which they apply.
_F__ 5. The form to which an inflectional morpheme is attached is
called root.
_F__ 6. Prepositions belong to lexical word class.
_F__ 7. The word ‘householders' has two roots and one suffix.
_F__ 8. ‘micro’ is the root of the word ‘microwaves’.
_F__ 9. There are 15 different words in the sentence ‘She had been
a teacher, and made sure the girl went to a good school’.
_T__ 10. For closed word- class, the membership is fixed; it is
generally impossible to add new members.
_T__ 11. Syntax is a component of Grammar.
_T__12. Prescriptive grammar aimed to lay down rules for language
usage and to set up a standard for correct use.
__F_ 13. For the open word class the membership is fixed; it is in
general not possible to add new members.
_F__ 14. Inflectional suffixes change the grammatical categories
and the meanings found in the words to which they apply.
T___ 15. ‘Donation’ is a complex word.
F___16. Conjunctions belong to lexical word class.
_T__ 17. ‘Predict’ is the root of the word ‘unpredictability'.
_F__18. The form to which an inflectional morpheme is attached is
called root.
__F _ 19. There are 4 inflectional morphemes in the sentence ‘She
walked to town yesterday and she has walked there this
morning’. 3
_F__ 20. The closed word classes are: nouns, pronouns, numerals,
determiners, prepositions, conjunctions.
_F__ 21. Inflectional morphemes will change the parts of speech of
words that they attach to.
_F__ 22. The smallest, meaningful units in a language are words.
_T__ 23. Free morphemes may stand alone as words in their own
right, as well as enter the structure of other words.
_F__ 24. All roots are free morphemes.
_F__ 25. [t] in worked, [d] in planned and [id] in needed are
allomorphs of a morpheme meaning plurality.
__T_ 26. The relative order of morphemes in the English word is as
follows: prefix (derivational) + root + derivational suffixes
+inflectional suffixes.
__F_ 27. The word REALITY can be analyzed into the following
morphemes: RE -AL -ITY.
_T__ 28. Words are analyzable in grammar into smaller units called
morphemes.
_F__ 29. Words are the smallest meaningful units of the English
language.
_T__ 30. There are no derivational morphemes in the sentence ‘She
walked to town yesterday and she hasn’t walked there this
morning’.
__F_ 31. Inflectional affixes create new words out of existing words
or morphemes by their addition.
_T__ 32. There are 2 inflectional morphemes in the sentence “He is
a university lecturer and he wants his daughter to study abroad.”
_T__ 33. Some roots are free morphemes.
__T_ 34. [s] in maps, [z] in frogs and [iz] in watches are
allomorphs of a morpheme meaning plurality.
_F__ 35. Words are unanalyzable in grammar into smaller units
called morphemes.
_F__ 36.The relative order of morphemes in the English word is as
follows: prefix (derivational) - root - inflectional suffix. -
derivational suffix.
_F__ 37. Bound morphemes may stand alone as words in their own
right as well as enter the structure of other words.
_T__ 38. Morphology is concerned with the way that words pattern,
via phrases and clauses, into sentences.
__F_ 39. The minimal meaningful units of language are
morphemes.
_T__ 40. Words are the smallest meaningful units of the
Vietnamese language.

II/ PROBLEM SOLVING:

1. Analyze the following words by indicating the number of

syllables, morphemes, root(s), stem(s), inflectional morphemes
(IM), derivational morphemes (DM) and then give the meanings
of IMs and DMs

1/ MISPRONOUNCING 2/ BABYSITTERS
3/ GREENHOUSES 4/ HOUSEHOLDERS

2. Analyse the word formation process (both the structure and

its name) responsible for the creation of each of the following
words
1. establishment: suffixation 6. telex: blending

2. Fahrenheit: word from name 7. forth - with(adv):

compounding
3. govt.: clipping 8. inexcusable:
affixation
4. f.fwd: clipping 9. demand (n):
conversion
5. film (v): conversion 10. CPU: acronymy