1. LEXIS
- COMPOUNDS
- BLENDS
- MORPHOLOGY
- PREFIXES AND SUFFIXES
- HOMOPHONES ETC.

2. Compound words
 Complete the centre column of
the table to make two compound
words.
 To make it easier, each answer
is a three letter part of the
body.

3. Answers

4. Blend Words
 These are two words blended into one:
 Can you un-blend these?
3. electrocute
4. fortnight
5. intercom
6. motel
7. Muppet
8. paratroops
9. smog
10. workaholic

5. Blend Words
 Answers:
2. electric + execute
3. fourteen + nights
4. internal + communication
5. motor + hotel
6. marionette + puppet
7. parachute + troops
8. smoke + fog
9. work + alcoholic

6. Morphology
 The study of the structure of words
 Is a word the smallest unit of meaning?
The plogs glorped bliply
Q1: How many plogs were there: one, or more than
one?
Q2: What were they doing?
Q3: Were they doing it now or in the past?

7. Morphemes
 Smaller units of meaning are called morphemes, eg.
ed, s, ly.
one
dog, elephant, establish, child
morpheme
two
dog s, elephant ine, establish ment, child ish
morphemes
three
dis establish ment, child ish ness
morphemes
 Just for fun, how many morphemes in:
Anti dis establish ment arian ism ?

8. Split these into individual morphemes, then
identify each morpheme as one of these:
- Independent (I) – can stand on its own
- Dependent (D) – must be attached to another
morpheme
and the dependent ones as:
- Grammatical (G) – defines the word’s role in the
sentence or gives grammatical information
- Creative (C) – forms a new word
pigs, barked, unlikely, motherhood, salty,
cherry, taller, hammer, displease, hardship,
superheroes, player, payee, coffee

9. Prefixes and Suffixes
 Many morphemes are affixes –
prefixes which go at the start of the
word or suffixes which go at the
end.
 How many prefixes and suffixes can
you list?

10. Prefixes

11. Suffixes

12. Conversion – when affixes change the
word class
 These affixes change a word’s word
class, eg from verb to adjective.
 Can you identify which do what?
able, ible, ing, ive, pre,
ify, ally, ly, sion, tion,
less, ful, ism

13. Some examples:
 able: enjoy to enjoyable – verb to adjective
 ible: digest to digestible – verb to adjective
 ing: shine to shining – verb to verb/adjective
 ive: response to responsive – noun to adjective
 pre: operation to pre-operation – noun to adjective
 ify: valid to validify - adjective to verb
 ally: radical to radically – adjective to adverb
 ly: neat to neatly – adjective to adverb
 sion: averse to aversion – adjective to noun
 tion: abbreviate to abbreviation – verb to noun
 less: fault to faultless – noun to adjective
 ful: beauty to beautiful – noun to adjective
 ism: athletic to athleticism – adjective to noun

14. Lexical relationships - remember these?
 Homophone
 Homonym
 Homograph
 Synonym
 Antonym
homo- same
ant- opposite
syn- together
-phone sound
-nym name
-graph written

15. Lexical relationships - remember these?
 Homophone – there/their/they’re
r
Homonym – punch/punch t he
a no o r

of e f
 Homograph – bow/bow T hink mpl
exa each
 Synonym – seat/chair
 Antonym – hot/cold
homo- same
ant- opposite
syn- together
-phone sound
-nym name
-graph written

16. LEXIS
- COMPOUNDS
- BLENDS
- MORPHOLOGY
- PREFIXES AND SUFFIXES
- HOMOPHONES ETC.