EXERCISES 1

THE EXERCISES OF MORPHEMES

EXERCISE 1: Identify the number of the morphemes in each of the given words. Complete the table
given below.

1 play 1 11 keeper
2 replay 2 (re- and play) 12 able
3 date 13 unable
4 anteday 14 search
5 hygiene 15 research
6 weak 16 cheap
7 weaken 17 cheaply 2 (cheap and -ly)
8 man 18 cheaper
9 manly 19 rain
10 keep 20 rainy

EXERCISE 2: Identify the bound morpheme(s) in of each of the given words. Complete the table given
below.

1 speaker -er 6 delivery

2 kingdom 7 intervene inter- , -vene
3 phonemic 8 revise
4 idolize 9 dreamer
5 selective 10 undone

EXERCISE 3: Underline the base in each of the given table given below.

1 womanly 6 lighten 11 unlikely

2 endear 7 enlighten 12 pre-war
3 failure 8 friendship 13 subway
4 famous 9 befriend 14 falsify
5 infamous 10 Bostonian 15 unenlivened

EXERCISE 4: Identify the meaning of the affix in of each of the given words. Complete the table given
below.

1 antedate The prefix ante– means ‘before’.

2 replay
3 keeper The suffix –er means ‘a person who ...’.
4 manly
5 unable
6 rainy
7 cheapest
8 subway
9 import
10 maltreat
EXERCISE 5: Describe the types of morphemes in the following sentences:
1. Ann’s boyfriend waited for her for 2 hours

2. He is such a dishonest person. He always tells lies to everybody.

3. We looked through our teacher’s assigments carefully.

4. He is the loudest speaker in the meeting.

5. They needed some bigger paintings for the central hall.