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1. What is morphology?
A. The study of the rules governing the sounds that form words
B. The study of the rules governing sentence formation
C. The study of the rules governing word formation
D. The study of the rules governing the relationship between word and social aspects

2. What is a morpheme?
A. The smallest unit of a particular language
B. The minimal pair of a chosen phrase
C. The smallest meaningful unit of a word
D. The minimal item of a linguistic unit

3. How many morphemes does the word "antiestablishment" have?


A. 3 B. 4 C. 5 D. 6

4. What is the main difference between free and bound morphemes?


A. Free morphemes are dependent and must be attached to another morpheme whereas
bound morphemes are independent.
B. Free morphemes belong in the open class and all bound morphemes belong in the closed
class.
C. Free morphemes can stand alone, but bound morphemes have to be attached to a base
morpheme/root.

5. The closed class is the functional categories which are not derivable.
A. True B. False

6. Which is not an example of derivational morphemes?


A. Walk --> walked B. Entertain --> entertainment
C. Move --> remove D. Paint --> painter

7. Which choice shows an example of an inflectional morpheme?


A. Replace --> replacement B. Reform --> reformation C. Regret --> regrets
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8. Which choice describes the basic properties of derivational morphemes?


A. Derivational morphemes are affixes which can change the meaning or parts of speech of
words.
B. Derivational morphemes are affixes which change numbers or tenses.

9. Which is an example of using affixation to form new words?


A. Disappear B. Storeroom
C. Blanket (v.) --> blanket (n.) --> blanket (adj.)

10. Derivation rules can be applied only once to a stem to produce new lexical
items (e.g. friend --> friendly).
A. True B. False

11. Which of the following is an example of an inflectional morpheme in


English?
A. Tall --> taller B. Create --> creator
C. Write --> writer D. Generate --> generator

12. the process of reducing a word of more than one syllable to a shorter form
A. compounding B. loan translation C. clipping D. blending

13. the process of changing the function of a word, such as a noun to a verb, as a
way of forming new words, also known as ‘category change’ or ‘functional shift’
A. conversion B. acronym C. backformation D. derivation

14. a word-formation process in which a longer word is reduced to a shorter


form with -y or -ie at the end
A. backformation B. clipping C. hypocorism D. blending

15. the invention of new words


A. coinage B. neologism C. etymology D. eponym

16. the process of combining two (or more) words to form a new word (e.g.
waterbed)
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A. borrowing B. blending C. compounding D. loan translation

17. the process of taking words from other languages


A. coinage B. borrowing C. loan translation D. eponym

18. the process of forming new words by adding affixes


A. acronym B. conversion C. derivation D. backformation

19. a type of borrowing in which each element of a word is translated into the
borrowing language, also called calque
A. loan translation B. coinage C. eponym D. borrowing

20. the process of reducing a word such as a noun to a shorter version and using
it as a new word such as a verb
A. backformation B. acronym C. hypocorism D. conversion

21. the process of combining the beginning of one word and the end of another
word to form a new word
A. borrowing B. compounding C. blending D. loan translation

22. the study of the origin and history of words


A. eponym B. neologism C. coinage D. etymology

23. a bound morpheme added to the beginning of a word (e.g. unhappy)


A. affix B. prefix C. suffix D. bound morpheme

24. a bound morpheme added to the end of a word (e.g. fainted, illness)
A. prefix B. bound morpheme C. affix D. suffix

25. the study of human speech sound is called as:


A. Morphology B. Phonology C. Phonetics D. Semantics

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