Morphology

Question 1

Word Classes:
• Concrete nouns- name of thing
• Abstract nouns - name of idea, or emotion
• Proper Nouns - name of person or place uses capital
• Collective Nouns - name of group of something - fleet of cars, school of fish
• Pronouns - words that stand in place of nouns
• Adjectives - describes nouns
• Verbs - doing word
• Auxiliary Verbs - helping word- have, is
• Modal verbs - must shall would could, should might
• Adverbs - describes verb- how, where, when, how often, to what degree
• Prepositions - small words indicate position- from, to, under, in
• Interjections - Oh!, My goodness!
• Conjunctions - linking word - and, but, instead
• Determiners - a, an, the

Answer 1

ddd

Question 2

Function and Content words (4 in each one)

Answer 2

Function Words (set in grammar)
do not admit new members.
•	Prepositions
•	Conjunctions
•	Determiners
•	Pronouns

Content Words
readily admit new members.
•	Nouns
•	Verbs 
•	Adjectives
•	Adverbs

Question 3

Affixation

Answer 3

• At either the beginning (prefix) e.g. defrost
• end of a word (suffix) e.g. teacher
• At the Middle of a word (infixes) e.g. Fanbloodytastic

Question 4

Inflexional

Derivational

Answer 4

to add something small to a word to fit with grammar rules, does not change meaning; e.g. attaching -s to run in run doesn’t drastically change the meaning of the in confect-ion-er-s the plural inflexion -s appears after all other

Derivational, adding suffix or prefix to a root word but changes the meaning, changing function of word or meaning. e.g. use to misuse
or ambition (noun) to ambitious (adjective)

Question 5

Word formation Processes (Total 8)

Answer 5

• Acronyms - using initials of different words - NATO
• Blends - combination of two other words - ginormous
• Collocations - words that normally go together- tropical paradise
• compounding - combing two words with hyphen
• contractions - putting tow words together leaving out letters I’m
• initialisms - set of letters formed from first letter RSVP
• neologisms - new word
• shortenings or reductions - shortening of words- gym for gymnasium, exam for examination
contraction - I am to I’m
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Question 6

Morphological and Lexical patterning (total 11)

Answer 6

• Acronym - make new word from initials of a few words - NATO
Affixation - to add to a word and change the meaning or class of word
• Blends - combination of two other words - ginormous
• Borrowing - borrowing word from another language
• Collocations - words that normally go together- tropical paradise
• contractions - putting tow words together leaving out letters I’m
• initialisms - set of letters formed from first letter RSVP
• conversion - word-formation process that assigns an existing word to a different word class, part of speech, or syntactic category. e.g. Let’s not go nuclear on this issue
• • neologisms - new word
• shortenings or reductions - shortening of words- gym for gymnasium, exam for examination
contraction - I am to I’m