Identify the root in these words by underlining it and state which syntactic category it belongs to: Example: faster: adjective. a. hushes b. kindness c. fried d. gamers e. heavily f. grandfathers Exercise 3 A. Identify the suffixes by underlining them: a. singing b. unhappy c. mechanism d. trousers e. brother f. blackboard B. Identify the prefixes by underlining them: a. rewarded b. misfortune c. establish d. submit e. strawberry f. abnormal
MORPHOLOGY EXERCISE – PART Exercise Fill in the table using words from the text below: “A powerful agent is the right word Whenever we come upon one of those intensely right words the resulting effect is physical as well as spiritual, and electrically prompt.” MARK TWAIN Open class words Closed class words Exercise Identify the root in these words by underlining it and state which syntactic category it belongs to: Example: faster: adjective a hushes b kindness c fried d gamers e heavily f grandfathers BUSINESS ENGLISH Page of 11 Exercise A Identify the suffixes by underlining them: a singing b unhappy c mechanism d trousers e brother f blackboard B Identify the prefixes by underlining them: a rewarded b misfortune c establish d submit e strawberry f abnormal Exercise Identify the free morphemes in the following words by underlining them: a kissed b freedom c stronger BUSINESS ENGLISH Page of 11 d follow e awe f goodness g talkative h teacher i actor Exercise Divide the following into free and bound sets: ation, nation, pre, post, angle, ible, infra, out Free sets Bound sets Exercise Separate the affixes from the stems in the following words: Example: faster = fast + er Trains, succeeded, lighter, predetermined, retroactive, confusions, instructional BUSINESS ENGLISH Page of 11 Exercise Use the words that you think are relevant to answer the following questions: a Can a morpheme be represented by a single phoneme? Give examples By more than one phoneme? Give examples b 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 f A morpheme is basically the same as: i a letter ii a sound iii a group of sounds iv none of the above Exercise Compounds are often frequent in modern technical areas where new vocabulary is being created Find the compounds in the following passage: BUSINESS ENGLISH Page of 11 Free Talker Nokia 610 Car Kit The cell phone stays by your side instead of your ear with Nokia's hands-free Bluetooth system An unobtrusive dash-mounted screen provides the same information as your cell-phone display, and you can effortlessly download contact info from your phone A small console-mounted control unit with three intuitive buttons and a dial is but one way to manage calls and messages, which sound off through your car's speakers: Choose to use Nokia's decent voice-recognition software and neither hand has to leave the wheel www.nokia.com Exercise Complete the process and identify the type of word formation in English: Influenza flu Clipping Teleprinter, exchanger telex Megabyte meg Random access memory RAM A progress To progress Black,board Blackboard BUSINESS ENGLISH Page of 11 United States of America USA Compact disc CD Act action ANSWER Answers Fill in the table using words from the text below: Open class words Closed class words powerful - agent - is - right - word - come - intensely - right A - the - Whenever - we - words - resulting - effect - is - physical - well - spiritual - upon - one - of - those electrically - prompt - as and Answers Identify the root in these words by underlining it and state which syntactic category it belongs to: a hushes : Verb b kindness : Adjective c fried : Verb d gamers : Noun BUSINESS ENGLISH Page of 11 e heavily : Adjective f grandfathers : Noun Answers A Identify the suffixes by underlining them: a singing b unhappy c mechanism d trousers e brother f blackboard B Identify the prefixes by underlining them: a rewarded b misfortune c establish d submit e strawberry f abnormal BUSINESS ENGLISH Page of 11 Answers Identify the free morphemes in the following words by underlining them: a kissed b freedom c stronger d follow e awe f goodness g talkative h teacher i actor Answers Divide the following into free and bound sets: Free sets Bound sets nation - post - angle - out ation - pre - ible - infra BUSINESS ENGLISH Page of 11 Answers Separate the affixes from the stems in the following words: Train + s, succeed + ed, light + er, pre + de + termin + ed, retro + act + ive, + fus + ion + s, in + struct + ion + al Answers Use the words that you think are relevant to answer the following questions: a Can a morpheme be represented by a single phoneme? Give examples By more than one phoneme? Give examples Yes, a morpheme can be represented by a single phoneme, like in: teacher (/ə/), aside (/ə/), erase (/ɪ/), angry (/i/) Yes, a morpheme can be represented by more than one phoneme, like in: freedom (/dəm/), teacher (/titʃ/), talkative (/tɔk/) b Can a free morpheme be more than one syllable in length? Give examples Can a bound morpheme? Give examples Yes, a free morpheme can be more than one syllable in length, like in: follow (/fɑləʊ/), margin (/mɑ:dʒɪn/), characterize (/kæɹəktə/) Yes, a bound morpheme can be more than one syllable in length, like in: aggravation (/eɪʃən/), popularity (/ɪti/), privacy (/əsi/) BUSINESS ENGLISH Page of 11 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.) No, the letter (s) represents different morphemes: plural (hats), 3rd person singular (hides) and the possessive (cat’s meow) Moreover, the plural morpheme is represented by different sets of phonemes /s/, /z/ and /iz/ d Can the same morpheme be spelled differently? Give examples Yes, past tense morpheme /d/ opened -ed /t/ finished /s/ maps /z/ bags /iz/ dishes the plural morpheme -s e Can the same morpheme be spelled differently? Give examples Yes, site, cite and sight all of them are pronounced as /sait/ collector, teacher both of the morphemes -er and -or are pronounced as /ə/ f A morpheme is basically the same as: iv none of the above BUSINESS ENGLISH Page 10 of 11 Answers Compounds are often frequent in modern technical areas where new vocabulary is being created Find the compounds in the following passage: hands-free, dash-mounted, download, cell-phone, console-mounted, voicerecognition Answers Complete the process and identify the type of word formation in English: Influenza flu Clipping Teleprinter, exchanger telex Blending Megabyte meg Clipping Random access memory RAM Acronym A progress To progress Conversion Black,board Blackboard Compounding United States of America USA Abreviation Compact disc CD Acronym Act action Derivation BUSINESS ENGLISH Page 11 of 11 ... America USA Abreviation Compact disc CD Acronym Act action Derivation BUSINESS ENGLISH Page 11 of 11 ... succeeded, lighter, predetermined, retroactive, confusions, instructional BUSINESS ENGLISH Page of 11 Exercise Use the words that you think are relevant to answer the following questions: a Can a... the above Exercise Compounds are often frequent in modern technical areas where new vocabulary is being created Find the compounds in the following passage: BUSINESS ENGLISH Page of 11 Free Talker