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This document provides a series of exercises on English morphology. It includes questions testing knowledge of prefixes, suffixes, compound words, and word formation processes. It also includes practice problems identifying morphemes and word classes in example words and sentences.

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Review Exercises

This document provides a series of exercises on English morphology. It includes questions testing knowledge of prefixes, suffixes, compound words, and word formation processes. It also includes practice problems identifying morphemes and word classes in example words and sentences.

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EXERCISES

MORPHOLOGY
THEORY
1. Can an English word have more than one prefix? Give examples.

2. Can an English word have more than one suffix? Give examples.

3. Can an English word have more than one prefix and one suffix? Give examples.

4. True or False
a. Every English word contains at least one root.
b. In English, derivational morphemes occur before inflectional morphemes.
c. In English, derivational suffixes regularly occur before inflectional suffixes.
d. In English, a few inflectional morphemes can occur as prefixes.
e. Every root in English is a free morpheme (i.e., there is no such thing as a bound root.).
f. In English, some morphemes have both a free and a bound allomorph.

5. For each set of words below, say whether the words are endocentric, exocentric, or coordinative
compounds. Justify your identification.
a. redneck, yellowjacket, cocktail, blackhead
b. armchair, breathtest, rockopera
c. secretary-treasurer, scholar-administrator

PRACTICE
1. Tree-diagram each of the following words:
retry, sinkable, microorganisms, smoke-jumper, demagnetizability, endearment, unpalatable, holiday,
grandmother, mistreatment, cohabitation, discoveries, freedom

2. Using each of the following suffixes, give four examples of words to illustrate what word class they form.
In general, what is the word class of the stem that each suffix is added to? (From Denning & Leben, English
Vocabulary Elements, p. 44)
a. –ish
b. –ity
c. -ize

3. Divide the following English words into morphemes and show which are stems, which are derivational
affixes and which are inflectional affixes (The Structure of Language – An Introduction to Grammatical
Analysis (Pavey, 2011, p.39-40)):
a. scissors (as in ‘Don’t run with scissors, they’ll slow you down.’)
b. gameplans (as in ‘I have several gameplans for a situation like this.’)
c. polysyllabic (as in ‘The word ambiguous is polysyllabic.’)
d. undercooks (as in ‘Uncle Jim always undercooks the carrots.’)
e. unlockable (as in ‘This door is totally unlockable.’)
f. globalization (as in ‘Globalization leads to a loss of identity.’)
g. procrastinating (as in ‘Have you started to work or are you still procrastinating?’)
h. forgiveness (as in ‘You should ask for forgiveness from her.’)

4. For each of the words, identify:


 its word class
 all the morphemes
 the stem
 the root – is it free or bound?
 which morphemes are inflectional
 which morphemes are derivational – do these morphemes change the word class?
speakers, consumption, decorating, transmitted, childishness, disloyalty, uncivilized, breakfast,
previewing, ex-husbands, spoonfuls, neo-classical, falsities, receives, independence,
misunderstandings
5. Identify the different word-formation processes involved in producing each of the underlined words in the
sentences below. The processes mentioned are acronym, backformation, blending, borrowing, clipping,
coinage, compounding, conversion (‘zero derivation’), eponym, reduplication, hypocorism, loan-translation
(‘calque’).
a. We will carpet this room.
b. This device will self-destruct in 30 seconds.
c. Could you give me a quick recap on what’s been decided.
d. A day return to London, please.
e. Colouring your hair was a no-no at that time.
f. Jane decided to spring-clean her apartment.
g. What are the core rules of netiquette?
h. The tax court concluded that the sale was not a bona fide transaction.
i. Business confidence is on the up.
j. My old man said follow the van, and don’t dilly-dally on the way.
k. This year the show will be simulcast live to 50 different countries.
l. Did you get my memo about the meeting?
m. My guess is that the company will need a bailout.
n. I think Robyn said she’d like a toastie for brekkie.
o. You don’t need to button it because it’s got Velcro inside.

6. How do you think the following words entered the lexicon of English? (Payne, 2011, p.80)
a. chic b. savvy c. to text d. crap e. jumbo
f. thingy g. polythene h. van i. jogathon j. sandwich
k. to SMS l. hullabaloo m. the chunnel n. to coin (a word)
o. dyslexia p. Xerox q. guestimate r. scuba s. Japan-gate
t. britcom u. psycho v. walkie-talkie w. bonfire x. nostril

7. Give 2 examples for each of the following requirements


a. deverbal verbs by adding de-
b. denominal adjectives by adding –some
c. denominal verbs by adding –ify
d. deverbal adjectives by adding -able
e. compound nouns by adding an adjective and a noun
f. compound verbs by adding a noun and a verb
g. compound adjectives by adding an adjective and an adjective
h. exocentric compound
i. back formation
j. reduplication

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