Exercise 5

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Exercise 4

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THE MORPHOLOGY OF ENGLISH

Exercise 1Split the following words into morphemes and explain their meaning

1.disable 2. nonsense 3. frighten 4. typewriter 5. indecent 6. enrollment 7. feverishly 8. needlessness 9. unethical

Exercise 2Re-write the following using a “ / “ between morphemes

Exercise 3Re-write the following using a “ / “ between morphemes.

1. Markusuallychecksthenewspaperheadlineseachafternoon.

2. Jackiereallytryedtounderstandtheteachersstatement.

Write down as many derivations from act as you can. Explain the word formation and its meaning. E.g. act ---- actor - the suffix -or means “ONE WHO/ THAT WHICH'…….

Analyse the morphological structure of the following words. Supply words built in a similar way or from the same free base:

1. scanner, copier 2. antebellum 3. preschool 4. unpleasant 5. bedevil 6. interact 7. soloist 8. employment 9. foretaste 10. erasure

Exercise 6Explain the meaning of the following words:

acrophobia - fear of ……

claustrophobia

hydrophobia

agoraphobia

gamophobia

orinthophobia

panophobia

melissophobia

demophobia

thanatophobia

phagophobia

ichthyphobia

genophobia

arachnophobia

ophidiophobia

xenophobia

gynophobia

autophobia

scopophobia

hygrophobia

batrachnophobia

peniaphobia

alophobia

Exercise 7Which of the following morphemes a) can inflect as a noun/verb /adjective

b) can accept derivational suffixes; c) cannot accept changes

1. brook 2. until 3. rather 4. old 5. thus 6. so 7. however 8. stop 9. someone

Exercise 8Perform a morphological analysis of the following words:

1. unspeakable 2. mysteriously 3. indecisive 4. keyboard 5. connection 6. delightful

7. removal 8. nanometer 9. gigabyte