WORD STRUCTURE

Words Suffix Prefix

Morphemes
WORD
Morphs
STRUCTURE

Free Bound
morphemes morphemes
 The small
content that
WORD
convey
meaning and
Ex: always can
Book stand on its
Table
Laptop own and
maintain its
meaning.
 MORPHEMES

One Three
morphemes morphemes

Boy+ish+ness
Boy
Desire+able+ity
Desire
= desirability
Four
Two
morphemes
morphemes

Boy+ish Gentle+man+li+ness
Desire+able Un+desire+able+ity
= undesirability
 Simple word
Free which
morphemes consists of
one
morpheme.
Ex:
Believe,
speak,
 Must be
Bound attached to
morpheme another
morpheme to
receive
meaning.
Ex:
unbelievable
 Physical form
representing
Morphs some
morpheme in a
language.

1. Lexical : walk,
look, follow
2. Grammatical :
disbelieve
/dIsbI’li:v/
 Letters which
Prefix are added to
the beginning
of a word to
Un-, in-, im-, il, non, make a new
dis-, a-, over, extra,
pre-, ex-, homo, word with a
hyper, micr0, post, different
pro, sub, mis-, super,
mini, inter, re-, multi, meaning.
semi, etc.
 Noun suffixes

Verbal suffixes
Suffix
Adjectival suffixes

Adverbial suffixes
Noun suffixes

 Verb to noun
Ex : arrive + al = Arrival

 Noun to noun
Ex : free + dom = freedom

 Adjective to noun
Ex: different + ce = difference
Verbal suffixes

Noun to verb
Ex :
Facility + ate = facilitate

Adjective to verb
Ex :
Real + ize = realize
Adjectival suffixes

Verb to adjective
Ex :
Continue + ous = continuous

Noun to adjective
Ex :
Hope + less = hopeless
Adverbial suffixes

Adjective to adverb
Ex :
Slow + ly = slowly