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Chapter 3 Morphology (Quiz)
Class：___________ Name: ____________ Score: _____________
I. There are four choices following each statement. Mark the choice that can best complete the statement: (30%)
1. The morpheme “vision” in the common word “television” is a(n) ______. A. bound morpheme B. bound form C. inflectional morpheme D. free morpheme
2. The compound word “looking-glass” means “opposite to what is normal”. This indicates that the meaning of a compound __________.
A. is the sum total of the meaning of its components
B. can always be worked out by looking at the meanings of morphemes C. is the same as the meaning of a free phrase. D. None of the above.
3. Words like pronouns, prepositions, conjunctions, articles are __________items. A. open-class B. closed-class
C. neither open-class nor closed-class D. both open-class and closed-class
4. Bound morphemes do not include ___________. A. roots B. prefixes C. suffixes D. words 5. Which of the following words are formed by blending? A. girlfriend B. television C. smog D. bunch 6. “-s” in the word “books” is _______. A. a derivative affix B. a stem C. an inflectional affix D. a root 7. A suffix is an affix which appears ___________. A. after the root B. before the root
C. in the middle of the root D. below the root
8. ____ modify the meaning of the stem, but usually do not change the part of speech of the original word.
A. Prefixes B. Suffixes C. Roots D. Affixes
9. The meaning carried by the inflectional morpheme is _______. A. lexical B. morphemic C. grammatical D. semantic
10. The word UN is formed in the way of ____________.
A. acronym B. abbreviation C. compounding D. blending
II. Decide whether each of the following statements is True or False: (12%) 1. Nouns, verbs and adjectives are open-class items. ( ) 2. Roots and affixes can be free morphemes. ( )
3. Allomorphs can be defined as the variant forms of a morpheme. ( )
4. The four words “go, goes, going, gone” are related to one another by process of derivation. ( )
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Chapter 3 Morphology (Quiz)
III. Divide the following words into their separate morphemes by placing “+” between each morpheme and the next: （18%） 1) magician 2) psychoanalysis
3) fellowship 4) telecommunication
5) foreground 6) predigestion
7) befriendment 8) goalkeeper
9) submarine
IV. Define the following terms and give one or two examples for each: (24%) 1) morpheme
2) bound morpheme
3) compounding
4) open-class words
V. Answer the following question: (16%)
1. What are the four main features of the English compounds?
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Chapter 3 Morphology (Quiz)
Key
I. 1-5 DDBDC 6-10 CAACA
II. 1-4 TFTF
III. 1) magic+ian
2) psycho+analysis 3) fellow+ship
4) tele+communicat(e)+ion 5) fore+ground 6) pre+digest+ion 7) be+friend+ment 8) goal+keep+er 9) sub+marine
IV. 1. morpheme
the smallest meaningful unit of language that carries information about lexical or grammatical meaning eg. exercise-s care-less
2. bound morpheme
a morpheme that must be attached to at least one other morpheme; cannot occur alone eg. unimportant; valuable
3. compounding
the combination of two or sometimes more than two words to create new words eg. cutthroat takeover brainwash
4. open-class words
a class of words whose membership is in principle infinite or unlimited eg. nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs
V. 1. What are the main features of the English compounds?
Orthographically a compound can be written as one word, two separate words with or without a hyphen in between. Syntactically, the part of speech of a compound is determined by the last element. Semantically, the meaning of a compound is idiomatic, not calculable from the meanings of all its components. Phonetically, the word stress of a compound usually falls on the first element.
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