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1. Find the allomorphs for the same morphs:
inclusion, include, inclusive; immature, illegible, irreplaceable, incorrect; duke, ducal, dutchess; explode, explosion, explosive; enclose, enclosure; fuse, fusion.
2. Classify the morphemes in the following words into roots, affixes and semi-affixes:
womanlike, to liken; movable, to disable; kinship, shipboard; waterproof, to proofread; playfully, full-fledged; fireman, man-made; motherland, landlady; passer-by, by-time; creditgap, gap-fill; friendship, shipwreck.
3. Bring examples of words with the following semi-affixes:
half-, mini-, midi-, maxi-, self-, by-, -way, -friendly, -land, -like, -worthy, -man, -gap, -lady, -person, -safe, -monger, -wright, -type.
4.* Match the following affixes with the given meanings.
| 1. mis- 2. pre- 3. under- 4. post- 5. over- 6. demi- 7. -ish 8. -ive 9. -ness 10. -dom | a. after or later b. the state of being something; an area ruled in a particular way c. someone or something that does something or can do something d. too much/more than e. the people or language of a particular country or place f. half or small/partly g. before h. not enough/ be low i. bad, badly/wrong /wrongly j. used to form nouns from adjectives |
5. Classify the following words according to the part-of-speech meaning of their affixational morphemes:
magnetism, illusion, debeak, semicircular, tolerant, subdivision, misinform, antibiotic, overdo, washable, typist, reduction, goodness, pianist, addressee, commercialise, widely, thityish.
6.* Define the morphemes the differential meaning of which helps to distinguish between the words in the given sets:
monologue, dialogue, necrologue, decalogue; fledg(e)ling, fondling, groundling, overling; underground, underarm, underage, underdog; enable, encourage, enrich, enslave; describe, subscribe, conscribe, inscribe; behead, befool, befriend, bepaw; job-hop, job-hunt, job-share.
