COGNITION
THINKING AND LANGUAGE
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eleven morphemes, one for each letter of the word.
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one morpheme, for the entire word
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four morphemes; one for each syllable “un” “break” “a” “ble”
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three morphemes; “un” “break” and “able”
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two morphemes:“un” and “breakable”
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Detailed explanation-1: -"Unbreakable” is composed of three morphemes: un-(a bound morpheme signifying “not"), break (the root, a free morpheme), and-able (a bound morpheme signifying “an ability to be done").
Detailed explanation-2: -So unbreakable has three morphemes: un-break-able. Some words just have one morpheme, of course – you can’t break down the word love into any meaningful sub-parts, for example. We define different kinds of morphemes based on various properties like where they show up in words. All morphemes are either free or bound.
Detailed explanation-3: -"Unbreakable” is composed of three morphemes: un-(a bound morpheme signifying “not"), -break-(the root, a free morpheme), and-able (a free morpheme signifying “can be done").
Detailed explanation-4: -The short answer is “yes, it is a free morpheme or a bound morpheme". When it stands on its own, it is an adjective that means someone has the ability (able-ness) or power to do something. As a bound morpheme (sometime-able, sometimes-ible), it is a suffix that turns verbs into adjectives.