Morpheme for starting levels. Easy understanding...

1. Objectives
Morpheme
Kinds of morpheme
Free Morpheme
Bound Morpheme

2. What is
morpheme?

3. Definition:
 A morpheme is the minimal unit of meaning.
 The meaning that a morpheme gives can be:
Grammatical (for instance, the part of speech,
if the word is plural or singular, the tense of a
verb, etc.)
Lexical (that is the ‘dictionary’ meaning.)
Note:
In linguistics morphemes are indicated by “brace marks”
({ }).

4. Examples of morpheme
 One morpheme
 Two morpheme
 Three morpheme
 Four morpheme
 More than four
 boy, water, desire or
more
 boy+ish
desire+ish
 boy+ish+ness
desire+able+ity
 gentle+man+li+ness
un+desire+able+ity
 un+gentle+man+li+nes
s

5. Kinds of Morphemes
 There are two kinds of morphemes:
1. Free morpheme
2. Bound morpheme
Morpheme

6. 1-FREE MORPHEME
o A free morpheme is one that can be uttered alone
with meaning.
o Examples
 {book}
 {table}
 {bag}
 {deliver}
 {pick}
All of these morphemes are free morphemes.

7. 2-BOUND MORPHEME
o A bound morpheme can not be uttered alone with
meaning. It always added to one or morphemes to
form a word.
o Examples
 {s} in plays
 {re} in replay
 {ly} in cheaply
 {un} in unable
All of these underline morphemes are bound
morphemes.