Morphology And Lexicology

Question 1

Verbs

Answer 1

A word used to describe an action, state, or occurrence.

Question 2

Auxiliary verbs

Answer 2

A verb that adds functional or grammatical meaning to the clause in which it appears.

Question 3

Modal verbs

Answer 3

Verbs like can, could, shall, will, would, may, might, must, that signal the attitude of the speaker and express probability, possibility, doubt, etc.

Question 4

Adjectives

Answer 4

Describes a noun.

Question 5

Adverbs

Answer 5

Describes a verb.

Question 6

Prepositions

Answer 6

A word that shows the relationship between a noun or pronoun and other words in a sentence. (A locator in time or space)

Question 7

Pronouns

Answer 7

A pronoun (I, me, he, she, herself, you, it, that, they, each, few, many, who, whoever, whose, someone, everybody, etc.) is a word that takes the place of a noun.

Question 8

Conjunctions

Answer 8

A word used to connect clauses or sentences or to coordinate words in the same clause (e.g. and, but, if ).

Question 9

Determiners

Answer 9

A determiner is a word, phrase or affix that occurs together with a noun or noun phrase and serves to express the reference of that noun or noun phrase in the context.

Question 10

Interjections

Answer 10

In grammar, an interjection or exclamation may be a word used to express an emotion or sentiment on the part of the speaker.

Question 11

Prefix

Answer 11

An affix that is placed at the start of a word.

Question 12

Suffix

Answer 12

An affix that is placed at the end of the word.

Question 13

Infix

Answer 13

An affix that is placed in the middle of a word.

Question 14

Affixation

Answer 14

A morphological process that involves the addition of bound morphemes to a word stem. For example: ‘diarise’ - to put in a diary.

Question 15

Inflection morphemes

Answer 15

Changes the tense without effecting the class.

Question 16

Derivation morphemes

Answer 16

Changes the meaning or word class.

Question 17

Root morphemes

Answer 17

The primary morpheme within the word.

Question 18

Bound morphemes

Answer 18

A morpheme that can’t stand alone, has to be attached to another to have meaning.

Question 19

Free morphemes

Answer 19

Morphemes that can stand alone.

Question 20

Blends

Answer 20

A word formed from the combing of two or more words.

Question 21

Acronyms

Answer 21

Words formed from the initials of other words.

Question 22

Initialisms

Answer 22

An abbreviation consisting of initial letters pronounced separately.

Question 23

Shortenings

Answer 23

Reduction of form, often used in slang.

Question 24

Compounding

Answer 24

A way of forming a new word by combining two or more free morphemes. The resulting compound is a word that contains a stem that is made up of more than one root. For example “thank you -> thankyou” or “dark room” -> “darkroom”

Question 25

Contractions

Answer 25

A contraction is a shortened version of the written and spoken forms of a word, syllable, or word group, created by omission of internal letters.

Question 26

Collocations

Answer 26

The tendency for some words to combine with each other. For example: “Happy birthday” and “Thank God”.

Question 27

Neologisms

Answer 27

A newly coined word.

Question 28

Nouns

Answer 28

Is the name of a person, place, thing, or idea.