词汇学Chapter5补充练习
I. Choose the best answer and put the letter of your choice in the brackets.minimal
1. The minimal meaningful units are known as _____.
A. morphs
B. stems
C. morphemes
D. roots
2. The word ‘shortenings’ contains _____ morphemes.
A. three
B. four
C. five
D. six
3. Morphemes are abstract units, which are realized in speech by discrete units known as _____.
A. morphs
B. phonemes
C. lexemes
D. allomorphs
4. Words like cat, dog, tree and so on are called ______ words.
A. stem
B. polysemous
C. polymorphemic
D. monomorphemic
5. Free morphemes are the same as _____ words.
A. clipped
B. stem
C. native
D. root
6. In the word “contradiction”, the morpheme “-dict-“ is _____.
A. a free root
B. a bound root
C. an affix
D. a free morpheme
7. In the word “international”, “nation” is not a _____.
A. free morpheme
B. stem
C. bound morpheme
D. free root
8. A bound morpheme has to combine with other _____ to make words.
A. morphemes
B. allomorphs
C. phonemes
D. Lexemes
9. Bound morphemes are chiefly found in _____ words.
A. derived
B. converted
C. inflectional
D. compound
10. _____ affixes can be further divided into prefixes and suffixes.
A. Inflectional
B. Bound
C. Derivational
D. Converted
11. A _____ is a form to which affixes of any kind can be added.
A. root
B. morph
C. morpheme
D. stem
12. The word _____ contain an inflectional affix.
A. worker
B. happier
C. formal
D. enrich
II. Complete the following statements with proper words or expressions given in the course book.
1. A _____ is not the smallest unit because many words can be separated into even small
er meaningful units.
2. The plural morpheme has a number of _____ in different sound context.
3. There is no _____ morpheme in the word “dictation”.
4. Free morphemes and free _____are identical.
5. Affixes added to other morphemes to create new words are called _____ affixes.
6. The word “internationalists” has _____ morphemes.
7. According to the _____ of affixes, we can put them into two groups: inflectional and derivational affixes.
8. Bound morphemes include two types: bound root and _____.
III. Decide whether the following statements are true or false.
1. Morphemes which cannot occur as separate words are bound.
2. Inflectional morphemes indicate grammatical relationships.
3. Free morphemes can be used as words alone.
4. What remains of a word after the removal of all affixes is a stem.
5. A word is the minimal meaningful unit of a language.
6. The word “prisoners” has two morphemes.
7. There is an inflectional morpheme in the word “easier”.
8. Free morphemes are also known as free roots.
IV. Answer the following questions.
1. What are the differences between a bound morpheme and a bound root? V. Analyze and comment on the following.
1. Analyze the morphological structures of the following words.
Point out the types of morphemes.
prediction strawberries encouragement

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