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Help me please someone what is free morpheme- bound morpheme - word base - affixes - prefixes
Jan 25, 2011 2:01 AM
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base: a morpheme that gives a word its meaning. The base morpheme cat gives the word cats its meaning: a particular type of animal.
prefix: an affix that comes before a base morpheme. The in in the word inspect is a prefix.
suffix: an affix that comes after a base morpheme. The s in cats is a suffix.
January 25, 2011
free morpheme: a morpheme that can stand alone as a word without another morpheme. It does not need anything attached to it to make a word. Cat is a free morpheme.
bound morpheme: a sound or a combination of sounds that cannot stand alone as a word. The s in cats is a bound morpheme, and it does not have any meaning without the free morpheme cat.
read more :
http://www.uncp.edu/home/canada/work/caneng/morpheme.htm
January 25, 2011
Thank so much for this information now I understand
Thanks.....
January 25, 2011
"Un-like-ly"
"Like" is a word base.
"Un" is a prefix. Prefixes stand before the word base.
"Ly" is a suffix. Suffixes stand after the word base.
Both prefixes and suffixes are called affixes.
"Unhappy" - The affix(prefix) "un"
"Careless" - The affix(suffix) "less"
"Bound morpheme" is a morpheme that is bound to another/the other morpheme.
"Unlikely", "unhappy", "careless" are all bound morphemes.
If there is only one morpheme, it is called a free morpheme, for example, "like".
January 25, 2011
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