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I. Identify the number of morphemes in each of the following words in the table below.

Examples: carefully 3 (morphemes) kingdom 2 (morphemes)

1 reality 6 transportation
2 suicide 7 sociolinguistics
3 hygiene 8 independence
4 receptionists 9 broccoli
5 naturalist 10 decentralization

II. Write in the boxes the meaning of each of the underlined bound morphemes.

Example remarry re-: again

:
1 biosystem
2 falsify
3 centipede
4 amicable
5 biannual
6 transatlantic
7 courageous
8 overwork
9 homophobia
10 motiveless
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III. Underline the roots of the following words in the table below.

1 unfriendly 6 insomnia

2 deportation 7 destruction

3 punctuation 8 typography

4 manuscript 9 circumvent

5 conservation 10 herbivorous

IV.Add a prefix to each of the following words in the table below.

Examples moral > amoral, immoral , tie > un-tie

:
1 due >
2 sight >
3 attack >
4 precise >
5 view >
6 educate >
7 grade >
8 value >
9 relevant >
10 legal >
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V. Mark (p) each of the following items as a simple word, a complex word, a compound
word, or a grammatical structure.

Simple Complex Compound Grammatical

word word word structure
Examples:
eat p
eater p
suitcase p
a good meal p
1. humanitarianism
2. yellow ˈjacket
3. harvest
4. daydreamer
5. perception
6. spirit
7. unhappy
8. windmill
9. beautiful night
10. in reference with
11. absent-minded
12. nature
13. hush-hush
14. successful plan
15. readership
16. lawful
17. healthy child
18. shop-clearance
19. gorilla
20. extreme weather

VI. State the word-formation process of each of the following words in the table below.

Examples: BBC > acronym Ad > clipping

1 blackboard 11 broccoli
2 cheat 12 condo
3 plane 13 sci-fi
4 edit 14 approach
5 champagne 15 ping-pong
6 IBM 16 windmill
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7 workaholic 17 diagnose
8 wishy-washy 18 beautify
9 wider 19 woof
10 fridge 20 UNESCO

VII. Add a noun-forming suffix to each of the following words in the table below.

Examples kind > kindness, able > ability

:
1 short >
2 approve >
3 clear >
4 intense >
5 generous >
6 evolve >
7 real >
8 receive >
9 submit >
10 destroy >

VIII. Mark (p) each of the following statements true or false.

TRUE FALSE
1 There are two kinds of allomorphs: free and bound
2 Clipping is the fusion of two words into one.
3 Derivational paradigm is a set of related words
composed of the same base morpheme.
4 The words to which inflectional suffixes are attached are
called stems.
5 An affix is a free morpheme that occurs before or within
or after a base.
6 In English diminutive suffixes are the morphemes that
convey a meaning of smallness or endearment or both.
7 Immediate constituents are any of the two meaningful
parts forming a larger linguistic unity.
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8 Complex words contain two free morphemes.

9 Replacive is the replacement of one stem with another,
resulting in an allomorph of a morpheme which has no
phonological similarity to the other allomorphs.
10 Compound words cannot be divided by the insertion of
intervening material between the two immediate
constituents.