A free morpheme can stand alone as a single word (as a meaningful unit).

lexical morphemes are set of content words like nouns, verbs, adjectives, and
adverbs. They can be understood fully e.g. run, blue, slow, paper, small, throw,
and now
It is also called an unbound morpheme or a free-standing morpheme.Another name for
a free morpheme is an independent morpheme
Functional Morphemes are set of functional words like conjunctions, prepositions,
articles, pronouns, auxiliary verbs, modals and quantifiers. Some examples of
functional morphemes are and, near, when, on, because, but, it, in, that, the, and
above.

A bound morpheme cannot stand alone as a single word. It includes many prefixes and
suffixes like -ity in cordiality

Bound morphemes are also called affixes (prefixes, suffixes and infixes)

Derivational morphemes change the grammatical categories of words. For example the
word ‘bake’ (verb) is a root word (free morpheme) and when we add bound morpheme
‘er’(a suffix) with stem: it becomes baker (a noun),

An inflectional morpheme is a suffix that is added to a word to assign a

particular grammatical property to that word. For example, liste +ing = listening
or boy+s = boys.