GROWTH DEVELOPMENT CHILD
COGNITION AND EMOTIONS
|
Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
|
|
|
1
|
|
|
2
|
|
|
3
|
|
|
4
|
Detailed explanation-1: -The word dogs has two morphemes. Adding-s changes the meaning of the word dog to mean more than one dog. Morphology, the study of words and their parts helps when learning new words. To understand morphology, one needs to understand that words are made up of morphemes.
Detailed explanation-2: -The English word dog is a free morpheme.
Detailed explanation-3: -Often, in English, we put two free morphemes together to create a compound word, for example: textbook, milkshake, hairbrush, handbag, football and timetable.
Detailed explanation-4: -Every word must have at least one morpheme, but it may have more than one. Morphemes that can stand alone and have meaning as a word are called free morphemes. Morphemes that cannot stand alone but must be attached to another morpheme to have meaning are called bound morphemes.
Detailed explanation-5: -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.