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    Name:______________________________________ 1

    English 3225 UPRB

    I.Exercise

    A. Divide each of the following words into their smallest meaningful

    parts: landholder, smoke-jumper, demagnetizability, exagerated,systematic,


    autobiographically, semiannually

    WORD Morpheme or ROOT SUFFIX


    Prefix

    EX.immovability Im- -move- -abily,-ity

    How many derivational morphemes?______ Which?_________________________

    How many inflectional morphemes?______ Which?_________________________


    Name:______________________________________ 2
    English 3225 UPRB

    B. Each of the following sentences contains an error made by a nonnative speaker of


    English. In each, identify and correct the incorrect

    word.

    a. I am very relax here.

    b. I am very boring with this game.

    c. I am very satisfactory with my life.

    d. Some flowers are very attracting to some insects.

    e. Many people have very strong believes.Delahunty and Garvey

    f. My culture is very difference from yours.

    g. His grades proof that he is a hard worker.

    h. The T-shirt that China drawing. (from a T-shirt package from

    China)

    In general terms, briefly discuss what English language learners must

    learn in order to avoid such errors.


    Name:______________________________________ 3
    English 3225 UPRB

    C. Some native speakers of English use forms such as seen instead

    of saw, come instead of came, aks instead of ask, clumb instead of

    climbed, drug instead of dragged, growed instead of grew.

    Are these errors?

    If they are, are they the same kinds of errors made by the nonnative speakers of
    English listed in Exercise B?

    II. Exercise

    A. Identify the free morphemes in the following words:

    kissed, freedom, stronger, follow, awe, goodness, talkative, teacher,

    actor.

    B. Use the words above (and any other words that you think are relevant) to answer the
    following questions:

    1 Can a morpheme be represented by a single phoneme? Give examples.


    By more than one phoneme? Give examples.
    2 Can a free morpheme be more than one syllable in length? Give
    examples. Can a bound morpheme? Give examples.

    C. Does the same letter or phoneme—or sequence of letters or phonemes—always


    represent the same morpheme? Why or why not?

    (Hint: you must refer to the definition of morpheme to be able to answer this.)

    D Can the same morpheme be spelled differently? Give examples.

    E. Can different morphemes be pronounced identically? Give examples.


    Name:______________________________________ 4
    English 3225 UPRB

    F. A morpheme is basically the same as:

    i. a letter

    ii. a sound

    iii. a group of sounds

    iv. none of the above

    G The words district and discipline show that the sequence of letters

    d-i-s does not always constitute a morpheme. (Analogous examples are

    mission, missile, begin, and retrofit.) List five more sequences of letters that are
    sometimes a morpheme and sometimes not.

    H. Just for fun, find some other pairs like disgruntled / *gruntled and

    disgusted / *gusted, where one member of the pair is an actual English

    word and the other should be a word, but isn’t


    Name:______________________________________ 5
    English 3225 UPRB

    III Exercise.

    1. Can an English word have more than one prefix?


    Give examples.

    More han one suffix? For example?

    More than one of each? Give examples.

    Divide the examples you collected into their root, derivational, and

    inflectional morphemes.
    Name:______________________________________ 6
    English 3225 UPRB

    2. USE Merriam Webster Dictionary Online

    Check your dictionary to see how it deals with inflected and derived

    word forms. Does it list all the inflections of regular inflected words?

    Just irregular ones? Does it accord derived forms their own entries or

    include them in the entries of the forms from which they are derived?

    2. Does your dictionary list bound morphemes? Which kinds?

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