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    This document provides a series of morphology exercises that require analyzing and classifying morphemes in words. The exercises include: 1) characterizing morphemes in sample words, 2) describing affix types, 3) identifying affixes as derivational or inflectional, 4) segmenting and classifying morphemes in words, 5) matching word parts to descriptions, 6) drawing word trees for sample words, and 7) drawing multiple word trees to illustrate ambiguous words with more than one meaning based on interpretation of affixes. The goal is to practice identifying, analyzing, and classifying different types of morphemes that make up words in the English language.

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    This document provides a series of morphology exercises that require analyzing and classifying morphemes in words. The exercises include: 1) characterizing morphemes in sample words, 2) describing affix types, 3) identifying affixes as derivational or inflectional, 4) segmenting and classifying morphemes in words, 5) matching word parts to descriptions, 6) drawing word trees for sample words, and 7) drawing multiple word trees to illustrate ambiguous words with more than one meaning based on interpretation of affixes. The goal is to practice identifying, analyzing, and classifying different types of morphemes that make up words in the English language.

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    This document provides a series of morphology exercises that require analyzing and classifying morphemes in words. The exercises include: 1) characterizing morphemes in sample words, 2) describing affix types, 3) identifying affixes as derivational or inflectional, 4) segmenting and classifying morphemes in words, 5) matching word parts to descriptions, 6) drawing word trees for sample words, and 7) drawing multiple word trees to illustrate ambiguous words with more than one meaning based on interpretation of affixes. The goal is to practice identifying, analyzing, and classifying different types of morphemes that make up words in the English language.

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    Morphology Exercises

    Part 1 : https://www.nitoanswers.com/2019/09/english-morphology-exercises-part-1.html

    APP: http://mshang.ca/syntree/

    https://www.nitoanswers.com/search/label/Morphology?&max-results=10

    Part 3

    Exercise 1    
    Give a thorough characterization of the morphemes in the following
    words as shown below: discourageable, traditionally, suffocations,
    internationalism
    Example: Carelessly
    Care: Lexical root, Grammatical category: Noun.
    -less: Bound morpheme (suffix), Derivational, Grammatical class changing,
    Function: form Adjectives.
    -ly: Bound morpheme (suffix), Derivational, Grammatical class changing,
    Function : form Adverbs.

    - Discourageable
     Dis-: Bound morpheme (prefix), Derivational, Grammatical class
    maintaing, Function: Negation
     Cour: Lexical root, Grammatical category: Noun
     -age: Bound morpheme (suffix), derivational, grammatical class
    maintaining, Function: form Nouns.
     -able: Bound morpheme (suffix), Derivational, Grammatical class
    changing, Function: form adj
    - Traditionally
     Tradition: Lexical root, Grammatical category: Noun
     -al: Bound morpheme (suffix), Derivational, Grammatical class
    changing, Function: form Adj
     -ly: Bound morpheme (suffix), Derivational, Grammatical class
    changing, Function: form adv
    - Suffocations
     Suffocate: Lexical root, Grammatical category: Verb
     -tion: Bound morpheme (suffix), Derivational, Grammatical class
    maintaing, Function: form Nouns
     -s: Bound morpheme (suffix), Inflectional, Function: indicate the
    plural form of nouns.
    - Internationalism
     Inter-: Bound morpheme (prefix), Derivational, Grammatical class
    maintaing, Function: express reciprocality or intermediancy.
     Nation: Lexical root, Grammatical category: Noun
     -al: Bound morpheme (suffix), Derivational, Grammatical class
    changing, Function: form adjs
     -ism: Bound morpheme (suffix), Derivational, Grammatical class
    changing, Function: form Nouns

    Exercise 2
    Describe the italic affixes, whether they are derivational or
    inflectional:

    a. supremacy
    b.latest
    c.aphasia
    d.defies
    e.fanciful
    f.agriculture
    g.modifies
    h.tougher
    i.sharpen
    j.economics
    k.moneyed
    l.deploy
    m.broken
    n. heroes
    Exercise 3  
    State whether the affixes are derivational or inflectional:

    Words Affixes Der. / Inf.


    happiness ...ness....... ......Der....
    unkind ......un.... ....Der......
    flowers ......s.... .......Inf...
    discourage ....dis../ age.... .....Der.....
    amoral .....a../ al... ...Der.......
    readable ..... able... ....Der......
    accustomed ....ac /.ed..... ...Der/..Inf.....
    perception ....tion..... ...Der.......
    unbearable .....Un./ able.... ....Der......
    happenings ...ing /..s..... ..Der / Inf........
    pitiable .....able..... ...der.......
    greediness ..i /..ness...... ....der......
    teacher ........er.. ....der......
    untruthfulness ....un / th / full /ness...... .......der...
    buses ....es...... ....inf......
    appointee .....ee..... ....der......
    clueless .....less..... ......der....
    unhappier .....un / er..... ...der / inf.......
    Merging (V)
    ...ing./ ing...... ....inf.../ der...
    Merging (N)

    Exercise 4                     Answers

    Segment the following words and classify the morphemes associated


    with them as requested below:

    Derivational Morphemes
    Inflectional
    Words Roots Class- Class- Morphemes
    maintaining changing
    ......al /
    nationalisations .....nation..... .......... .....s.....
    ise./ation...
    uncharacteristically ......character..........un / al.... ...istic / ly. ..........
    reimbursment ...burse....... .....re..... ...im/..ment..... ..........
    unverbalized ....verb...... .......... ..al /..ize...... ...ed.......
    ....auto../
    autobiography .....bio..... ......y.... ..........
    graph....
    destigmatized .....stigmat..... ....de...... ...tize....... ......ed....

    Exercise 5                     Answers

    Match between the italicized part under A with one proper


    description from the list under B:
    A B

    1. inflectional suffix
    2. inflectional infix
    a. burial 3
    3. derivational suffix
    b. huckleberry 5
    4. free root
    c. plagiarizes 1
    5. bound root
    d. misunderstood 8
    6. derivational infix
    e. unluckily 4
    7. inflectional prefix
    8. derivational prefix

    Exercise 6                     Answers

    For each word below, draw a word tree:

    1.ambidextrous
    2.characterized
    3.insufferably
    4.contradictory
    5.underpinned
    6.dangerously
    7.thoughtless
    8.meaningfulness
    9.microorganisms
    10.retry
    11.sinkable
    12.disinformational
    13. demagnetizability

    Exercise 7                     Answers


    a) Draw tree diagrams for the following words:

    construal, disappearances, irreplaceability, misconceive, indecipherable,


    redarken.

    b) Draw two tree diagrams for undarkenable to reveal its two meanings: “able to


    be less dark” and “unable to be made dark.”

    c) Do the same as (b) for unzippable to reveal its  two meanings: "unable to be
    zipped" and "able to be unzipped"

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