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What's The Different Between Words and Morphemes? - Definition
What's The Different Between Words and Morphemes? - Definition
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- Definition
A morpheme refers to the smallest meaningful element of a word.
A word is a separate meaningful unit, which can be used to form sentences.
A word can consist of a single morpheme or a number of morphemes
- The main difference
is that while a word can stand alone, a morpheme is doubtful( a word
always conveys a meaning).
‘regained’, this word consists of 3 morphemes. They are, ‘re’ , ‘gain’ and
‘ed’. A word can consist of a single morpheme or a number of morphemes.
For example, when we say ‘swimming,‘ it is a single word, but it is not a
single morpheme but two morphemes together (‘swim‘ and ‘ing‘). chairs,
chair and s(plural)
2. What ‘s the difference between free and bound morpheme
Clarification
Some morphemes can exist on their own as a whole word - those are free. A
morpheme is bound when it can’t exist as its own word, only when added to
other morphemes to make a word.Bound morphemes include all types of
affixes: prefixes and suffixes.
Meaningful,undress
un Suffixes:
-ful