COGNITION
THINKING AND LANGUAGE
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Question
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Which of the following is not a morpheme?
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e in elephant
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s in cats
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-ing in skiing
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un in unknown
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -A morpheme is the smallest element of meaning in a word. Elephant is one morpheme, elephants is two; neighbour is one morpheme, neighbourhood is two.
Detailed explanation-2: -Which of the following is NOT a morpheme? d. a noun phrase CorrectFeedback: Noun phrases are “phrases” rather than morphemes.
Detailed explanation-3: -Bound, free, inflectional and derivational are types of morphemes.
Detailed explanation-4: -The word “unbreakable” has three morphemes: “un-", a bound morpheme; “break", a free morpheme; and “-able", a bound morpheme. “un-” is also a prefix, “-able” is a suffix. Both “un-” and “-able” are affixes.
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