Morphology-Ex

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Morphology

2012

Analyse the internal structure of the following words and phrases. Also point out which parts of speech the words belong to. E.g. bookkeepers – book + keep + er + s

1) easier circumstances

2) the greatest invention

3) prehistoric

4) without difficulties

5) he is running quickly

6) Mary’s endless storytelling

7) multinational

8) bigger skyscrapers

9) translations are needed

10) the unemployed

11) health insurance

book and keep are free morphemes, -er and –s are bound -er is derivational, -s is inflectional both –er and –s are suffixes bookkeepers is a noun


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