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Morphemes2 Types

Bound- Must be attached to another morpheme, cannot stand alone

Free- Can stand alone and still have meaning

Greek Combining Forms- Commonly found in multisyllabic words and come from Greek morphemes. They do not have defined roles in parts of speech and can be used with other bound morphemes and are able to be in several positions in a word.Example- chron-deals with time Beginning of a word-chronology Middle of word- synchronize In both examples chron is added with other bound morphemes.

Affixes-Placed at the beginning or end of a base word. Prefix-added to the beginning of the word: pre, ex, bi Suffix- added to the end of the word; ity, ous, ment There are two types of affixes

FunctionWords that fall into the following grammatical categories;1. Articles-the, a, an 2. Prepositions- before, between,up 3. Pronouns- the, it, that, them

ContentLargest category of words. These morphemes carry the meaning of sentences and are made up of the following.1. Nouns 2. Verbs 3. Adjectives 4. Adverbs Content words are being added as our language evolves Examples: man, red, sincere, follow

Roots-is a root that cannot stand alone and must be combines with other morphemes to make meaning. Many come from other language influences such as greek or latin.Examples; rupt- burst. Needs to be with other morphemes to make sense.-corrupt, interruption

Derivational- adding this type of affix to a word changes it's meaning.Examples; imagine-verb imagination-noun imaginary-adjective

Inflectional-give grammatical information without changing the meaning of the word. They indicate: Possession, gender, or number(N) Tense, voice or mood ( Verb) Comparison (Adj) more tall-tallest, her car- was hers, harder-hardest