Morphologically, English words are built on__________.

A. a.syllables
B. b. morphemes
C. c. allophones
D. d. phonemes

The following morphemes are all bound roots except for ____________.

A. a.-tain
B. b.-ceive
C. c. -mit
D. d.-less

The word ‘childish’ contains two ---------.

A. a. phonemes
B. b. phones
C. c. morphemes
D. d. allomorphs

______ modify the meaning of the base , but usually do not change the part of speech of the original word.

A. Prefixes
B. Suffixes
C. Roots
D. Affixes.

The word ‘labiodental’ contains two _____.

A. a. phonemes
B. b. phones
C. c. morphemes
D. d. allomorphs

------------ change the part of speech of the root, but usually do not change the lexical meaning of the original word.

A. a. Prefixes
B. b. Suffixes
C. c. Stem
D. d. Affixes.

Morphemes that can add “grammatical meaning”(such as agreement, tense, voice of the verb and person, number of the noun) of the wordare called ________ morphemes.

A. a. bound
B. b. derivative
C. c. free
D. d. inflective

The following suffixes are inflectional affixes except for __________.

A.-ing
B. b. -est
C. c. -ly
D. d. -s

A m________is the smallest meaningful unit of language.

When two morphs are variants of one morpheme, we say they are a__________ofthat morpheme.