Exercise 1. Identify the number of the morphemes in each of the given words.

Complete the table given below.

No. of morphemes
1 replay 2 (re- and play)
2 date 1
3 antedate 2 (-ante and date)
4 Hygiene 1
5 Weak 1
6 weaken 2
7 Man 1
8 Manly 2
9 Keep 1
10 Keeper 2
11 Able 1
12 Unable 2
13 Honest 1

Exercise 2. Indentify the bound morpheme(s) in each of the given words.

Complete the table given below.
1 Speaker - er
2 Kingdom
3 Phonemic
4 Selective
5 Delivery
6 Dreamed
7 Undone
8 revise
9 Intervene

Exercise 3. Underline the base in each of the given words.

Womanly Unlikely
Endear Pre-war
Failure Subway
Famous Falsify
Infamous
Lighten
enlighten
Friendship
Befriend
Bostonian
Exercise 4. Identify the meaning of the affix in each of the given words.
1. antedate The prefix ante- means ‘before’
2. Replay The prefix re- means “again”
3. Manly The suffix –er means ‘having the qualities of’ or ‘a
suffix form
4. Keeper The suffix –er means “ a person who..”
5. Unable The prefix un- means “not”
6. Rainy The suffix –y means ‘made up of or characterized
by’
7. Cheapest The suffix –est means “superlative”
8. subway The prefix sub- means “at a lower position”
9. Import The prefix im- means ‘into, towards’
10. maltreat The prefix mal- means ‘bad’

Exercise 5. Identify the meaning of the bound base in the given sets of words.
Complete the table given below.
1 Audience, audible, audition and
auditorium
2 Suicide, patricide, matricide and
infanticide
3 Oral, orate, oration, oracle and
oratory
4 Aquaplane, aquarium, aquatic and
aquaduct
5 Mortuary, moribund, mortal and
immortal
6 Corporation, corporeal, corps and
corpse
7 Tenable, tenant, tenure and tenacious The bound base ten- means ‘hold’
8 Manuscript, manacle, manual and
manicure
9 Eject, inject, reject and projectile
10 Pendulum, suspender, pendant and
impending
The bound base audi- means ‘hear’
The bound base cide- means ‘killing’
The bound base ora- means ‘mouth’ or
‘speak’
The bound base aqua- means ‘water’
The bound base mor- means ‘death’ or
‘dead’
The bound base corp- means either
‘the whole physical body of a human
being or an animal’ or ‘group of people
working or acting as a unit’
The bound base man- means ‘hand’
The bound base ject- means ‘throw’ or
‘shoot’
The bound base pend- means ‘hang’
Exercise 6: Identify the meaning of the bound base in each of the given words
and then give as many words with the same bound base as you can. Complete
the table given below.

1. revise –vise = ‘see’ devise, visible, visionary,

(tele)vision, visibility,
(audio)visual, supervise, etc.
2. contradict –dict = ‘say’ dictate, dictator, dictation, diction,
dictum, contradict, contradiction,
contradictory, contradictorily, etc.
3. regress -gress = ‘go’ regressive, regression, progress,
progressive, progression, egress,
ingress
4. intervene -vene = ‘come’ intervene, intervening, convene,
contravene, supervene
5. recur -cur = ‘run’ occur, recurrence, current,
currency
6. inspect -spect = ‘look’ spectacles, prospect, perspective,
prospectus
7. oppose -pose = ‘place’ or depose, propose, deposit, impose
‘put’
8. rodent rod- = ‘gnaw’ erode, erosion, erosive
9. portable port- = ‘carry’ deport, transport, portage
1 rupture rupt- = ‘break’ erupt, abrupt, corrupt, interrupt
0.
1 annual ann- = ‘year’ annuity, annuitant, anniversary
1.
1 bigamy -gamy = polygamy
2. ‘marriage’