Morphological 1 / 9 What is the term for a word that consists of a single morpheme? Monomorphemic word Polymorphemic word Compound word Base word 2 / 9 Which of the following words has two morphemes? Cats Happiness Running Unhappiness 3 / 9 Which of the following is an example of inflectional morphology? Adding the prefix "un-" to the word "happy" to form "unhappy" Changing the verb "run" to "running" to indicate the present participle Combining the words "house" and "boat" to form "houseboat" Adding the suffix "-er" to the word "teach" to form "teacher" 4 / 9 What is the process of adding affixes to a base word to create new words called? Derivation Inflection Conjugation Composition 5 / 9 What is the term for the study of how words are formed in language? Syntax Phonetics Morphology Semantics 6 / 9 Which of the following is an example of a free morpheme? The prefix "un-" in the word "undo" The word "happy" The suffix "-ing" in the word "running" The word "teacher" 7 / 9 What is the term for the smallest unit of meaning in language? Phoneme Morpheme Syntax Semantics 8 / 9 What is a morpheme? A meaningful unit of language that cannot be divided into smaller meaningful units A grammatical rule that governs word order in a sentence A type of punctuation mark used to separate words A type of vowel sound in language 9 / 9 Which of the following is an example of a bound morpheme? The prefix "pre-" in the word "preview" The word "cat" The suffix "-ness" in the word "happiness" The word "running" Your score is 0% Restart quiz
