What is the name of your textbook? The base morpheme is also commonly known as a root. The bound morpheme is also commonly known as an affix (prefix, infix, or suffix). I work. work = base morpheme; Joe works. work = base; -s bound morpheme (third person singular) Joe worked. work = base; =ed bound morpheme (completed action [perfective aspect]) Joe is working. work = base; -ing bound morpheme (incomplete action [imperfective aspect])

@Moe - there was no need to be rude. Do you realise you were being rude? @Layla - being a native speaker probably is irrelevant. Most native speakers have no idea about this. It is very technical.

@VinceNet Thank you very much. 🌹💐

Do you have any course book about it? If not, I'd recommend you try to find a good introductory book to Linguistics (or English linguistics) they will have one chapter about morphology and it should help you a lot. To make it short, a free morpheme is one that you can find alone eg. friend a bound morpheme is one that adds meaning to another morpheme, eg. -s to add plural: friends or -ly to change the grammatical category: friendly of course there's more to it but I'm sure you can find material, do not hesitate to ask me if you have questions I would try to help. And yes, your question makes sense, there's no mistakes

Why? Did I make mistakes in writing?☹