I/ MCQ

1) The _________of an inflectional paradigm is the part of a word that remains after the removal of all
inflectional suffixes?
A. Stem
B. Base
C. Root
D. Both B & C are correct
2) All of the forms including “Give, giving, gives, gave and given” created ____________________?
A. An inflectional noun paradigm
B. An inflectional verb paradigm
C. An inflectional adjective paradigm
D. An inflection adverb paradigm
3) Which word has class-changing derivational affixes?
A. Exactly
B. Monotheism
C. Reprint
D. Superhuman
4) How many suffixes are there in the word “FLIRTATIOUSLY”?
A. 1
B. 2
C. 3
D. 4
5) How many suffixes are there in the word “PERSONALITIES”
A. 1
B. 2
C. 3
D. 4
6) The prefix ANTE- in the word “ANTEDATE” means?
A. A person who…
B. Something that…
C. After
D. before

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7) The sound /i/ in DRINK is replaced by the sound________in DRANK.

A. /e/
B. /ei/
C. /æ/
D. /ə /

8) What does the bound base -CEIVE,-CEPT,-CEIT mean?

A. Bear C. Hold
B. Take D. Carry

9) “ANTIFUNDAMENTALIST” has:
a. 7 syllables and 4 morphemes.
b. 7 syllables and 5 morphemes.
c. 6 syllables and 5 morphemes.
d. 6 syllables and 4 morphemes.
10). Identify the bound base of the word “AUDIENCE”:
a. audience
b. audience
c. audience

11) How many inflected forms do the noun COMPUTER has?

A. 2 forms
B. 3 forms
C. 5 forms
D. 5forms

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12) What does the bound base in the words: regress (v); regression (n); regressive (adj); progress (n);
progressive (adj) mean?
A. Say                         B. Go              C. Run             D. Come

13) How many morphemes are there in the word “UNDESIRABILITY” ?

A.3                  B.5                  C.4                  D.2
14) Identify the allomorph of the inflectional suffix in word. How are the allomorphs involved conditioned? 
Switch→ switches.
A. A phonologically conditioned additive allomorph
B. A morphologically conditioned suppletive allomorph
C. A morphologically conditioned additive allomorph
D. A phonologically conditioned zero allomorph

15) Which words have morpheme {-D2}?

A. Playing, flowed, worked
B. Smaller, safer, thought
C. Flowed, created, drunk
D. Hardest, fastest, longer

II/ Matching

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1/ INFLECTION
A. Inflection is the process of adding any affix to a word or changing it in some other way
according to the rules of the grammar of a language
B. Inflection is the process of adding an affix to a word or changing it in some other way
according to the rules of the grammar of a language

2/ DERIVATION
a. Derivation is the formation of new words by adding suffix to other words.
d. Derivation is the formation of new words by adding suffix to other words or morphemes.
3/ A FREE MORPHEME
A. cannot be uttered alone with meaning
B. the one that can be uttered alone with meaning

4) ALLOMORPH

A. An allomorph is any of the different forms of a morpheme

B. An allomorph is any of the different forms of several morpheme

5. DERIVATION FORMULA:
a. A base + derivational affixes → new derived words.
d. A stem + inflectional suffixes → inflected forms of one and the same word.
III/ True/ false
1/ T the prefix IN- in the words incompetent (adj), insecure (adj), inefficient (adj) meaning “NOT”?
2/ T “MAHOGANY” has: Four syllables and one morpheme.

3/ T A morpheme differs from a phoneme in that the former has meaning whereas the latter does not.
4/ F A derived word included two bases and one or more derivational morpheme(s).

5/ T The set of words “sin, sinner, sinfulness, sinless, sinlessness, sinful” is a derivational paradigm.

6/ T A morpheme cannot be divided into smaller meaningful parts without violation of its meaning or without
meaningless remainded.

7/ F Inflection is the process of adding any affix to a word or changing it in some other way according to the
rules of the grammar of a language.

8/ hỏi về homonyms

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