4. Morphemes
Free
Morphemes
Lexical Nouns Girl
Adjectives Happy
Verbs Kick
Adverbs Quickly
Functional
Determiners A, an, the
Conjunctions And, but, etc.
Prepositions In, on, at.
Pronouns I, he, you
Auxiliaries Is, am, are
Bound
Morphemes
Derivational
Prefixes
Suffixes
Inflectional Suffixes
5. • One morpheme boy (one syllable)
desire, lady, water (two syllables)
crocodile (three syllables)
salamander (four syllables),or
more
• Two morpheme drive + er
desire + able
• Three morpheme boy + ish + ness
desire + able + ity
• Four morpheme gentle + man + li + ness
un + desire + able + ity
• More than four un + gentle + man + li + ness
anti + dis + establish +
ment + ari + an + ism
Examples of Morphemes
6. • -s third-person singular present : She waits at
home.
• -ed past tense : She waited at home.
• -ing progressive : She is eating the donuts
• -en past participle : Mary has eaten the donuts.
• -s plural : She ate the donuts.
• -’s possessive : Lisa’s hair is short.
• -er comparative : Lisa has shorter hair than Kate
• -est superlative : Lisa has the shortest hair.
