The morphemes mono-, dia-, necro-, deca- possess the differential meaning as each of them may serve to distinguish the word it forms from the other words in the given set; similarly fledg(e)-, fond-, ground-, over-; -ground, -arm, -age, -dog; -able, -courage, -rich, -slave; de-, sub-, con-, in-; -head, -fool, -friend, -paw; -hop, -hunt, -share.
Ex. 9 p. 174
Pseudo-morphemes: detain, respect, resist, relieve, exceed, deduce, distinct.
Unique: roots hamlet, cranberry, Friday, pocket, pioneer, budget, pumpkin, coward, legible.
Ex. 10 p. 174
combining form
Ex. 11 p. 174
1. collage – unique root; 2. neighbourhood – indicating state or condition; - ful in the other words has a collective meaning; 3. handful – it’s a noun; all the others are adjectives; 4. inedible – in the other adjectives the prefix in- doesn’t have a negative meaning, it gives the idea of inside or into; 5. compliment – all the others are verb + -ment, e.g. appoint + ment. There’s no verb ‘compli’; 6. worship – the suffix -ship denotes ‘state or condition’ whereas in the other words it has the meaning ‘all the people in a particular group’; 7. hamlet – unique root, -let in the other words has a diminutive quality; 8. document – docu - is a bound root, all the others are free roots; 9. profitwise – the semi-affix - wise is used for saying ‘with reference to’ whereas in the other words it has the meaning ‘direction or manner’; 10. harshly – the suffix - ly is used to form an adverb from a noun stem, in the other words - ly is used to form adjectives from nouns.
Ex. 12 p. 175
Complete segmentability: prewar, blackberry, furious, streamlet, streamline, tablet, tablecloth, hostess, centralise, disqualify, unwrap, educative;
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conditional segmentability: prevail, conceive, receive, subtract, distract, obsess, obstruct, posess, respect, support, impress, depose, advertise;
defective segmentability: mulberry, raspberry, hostage, fraction, delete.
Ex. 1 p. 177
Native affixes: -er, -like, -ness, -ful, with-, over-, un-, be-, -dom, -en, a-, mis-, for-, -y, -ish; borrowed affixes: de-, ir-, со-, -ant, -ive, -ous, -al, -able, -ize, super-, dis-, trans-, inter-, anti-, ultra-, infra-, under-, intro-, ab-.
Ex. 2 p. 177
Productive affixes: -er, -ize, -or, -ish, un-, non-, dis-, -ness, -ee, -tion, -less, -ify, -ry, -ence (ance), -ly, -ing, -y, -ist, -ic, -ed, -ate; non-productive affixes: -en, -th, -ous, -hood, pro-, bi-, -some, -red, -ful, -ward, -wise, -ship.
Ex. 4 p. 177
amazement, complication, composition, fastener, infection, innovation, isolation, length, toleration, weakness, width, depth, life, belief, practice, feed, devise, shelf, bleed, fill, gild, prog’ress, con’tract, ‘produce, ‘conduct.