CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -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.

Detailed explanation-3: -The twelve free morphemes are: it, was, the, best, of, time, it, was, the, worst, of, time. The only two bound morphemes are the-s suffixes on time.

Detailed explanation-4: -Morphemes are comprised of two separate classes called (a) bases (or roots) and (b) affixes. A “base, ” or “root” is a morpheme in a word that gives the word its principle meaning. An example of a “free base” morpheme is woman in the word womanly. An example of a “bound base” morpheme is-sent in the word dissent.