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Free Morpheme

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Stand alone; they are words in their own right.

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Bound Morpheme

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Cannot stand independently, they must be attached to free morphemes.

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Inflectional Bound Morpheme

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Do not change the meaning or word class: they simply change the plurality, possession, or tense. Must be suffixes

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Derivational Bound Morpheme.

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Change the meaning of words, create new words and can change the world class. Can be prefixes or suffixes.

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Root Morpheme

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The semantic base or centre of a word. May be a free morpheme or a bound one.

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Affix

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A morpheme that is added to a word.

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Prefix

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Affixes in front of words

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Suffix

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Affixes at the end of the word

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Infix

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Affixes in the middle of the world (non standard)

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Noun

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Words that name people, places, things, qualities or actions.

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Common noun

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General Item

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Proper noun

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Specific

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Collective noun

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Refers to a group

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Concrete common noun

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Touchable, can be known through the senses.

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Abstract common noun.

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Words that are only ideas, concepts, emotions.

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Plural noun

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Nouns that are plural. Regular when you add s or es. Irregular when anything else happens.

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Adjective

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Define or modify nouns.

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Adverbs

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Modify verbs or adjectives. The types of adverbs are time, frequency, manner, place, degree.

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Verbs

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Denote actions, processes and states.

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Auxiliary verb

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Modify and change some aspect of the main verb.

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Modal verb

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A special category of Auxillary verb. Include can, could, shall, should, will, would, may, and might, and must.

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Determiners

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Noun phrases and function as modifiers. Point to a noun.

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Pronoun

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Replaces nouns. Words such as he, his etc.

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Proposition

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Show the relationship between a noun and other words. They position things in space or in time. Words include”with”, “by”, “under”

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Interjection

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Words that contain strong emotion or feeling such as “Ouch”, “Oh, No”

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Conjunction

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Words that connect words or elements of a sentence.

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Coordinating conjunction

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FANBOYS. Link words, phrases and clause together.

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Subordinating conjunction

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Only join clauses together. Words such as “becasuse, if, then.”

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Function Words

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Perform a Job. Determiner, pronoun, Auxillary verbs, modal verbs, prepositions, conjunction, interjections.

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Content Words

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Carry Real meaning. Nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs/

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World Loss

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When we acquire new words and lose words.

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Elevation

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When a word gets more use.

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Deterioration

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A word that gets less use. Words that die out.

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Neologisms

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New words “Google”

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Archaism

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Old words. E.G “Thy, thou”

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Blends

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Words that are produced by merging parts of two words to create a new one. Brother and Romance —> Bromance.

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Initialisms

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Words that are made up of beginning letters in a sequence of words, and are said as a series of letters. E.G RSPCA.

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Acronyms

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Words that are made up of beginning letters in a sequence of words, and are said as words. E.G SCUBA, LOL.

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Shortenings

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When the beginning or end of the word is removed. Refridgerator —> Fridge.

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Compounding

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Words created by putting two free morphemes together. E.G blueberry, Facebook.

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Conversion

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Converting words from one word class to another. E.G Email —> Email. Noun to a verb.

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Contractions

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Words like Don’t. Common in English.

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Collocations

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Words that are closely associated with each other. “Safe and Sound”. “Bread and butter”.

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Borrowing

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When we take words from other languages. E.G Cafe Silhouette.

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Commonisation.

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When names of brands turn into common names of a specific thing. E.G “Esky, Bandaid.”

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Morphology

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The study of the form of language. How words a put together.

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Lexicology

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The study of the form, meaning, and behaviour of words.

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Morpheme

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A morpheme is the smallest written unit that still has meaning as a whole.

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