Kuis Morpho

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1. Discuss and answer these concepts briefly with examples

a. Significance of studying morphology
Answer:
Morphology is important to study because it clarifies the construction and structure of
words in a language. It offers an understanding of the structure, meaning, and
relationships between words.
b. Morpheme
Morpheme is the smallest unit of meaning in a language. It can be a single meaningful
word or part of a word. Morphemes are of two types: bound morphemes, which need to
be combined with free morphemes to convey meaning, and free morphemes, which can
function alone as words.
Example of free morphemes :
 Run : describes the activity of walking quickly.
 Dog : a certain kind of animal.
Examples of Bound Morphemes:
 -s in dogs : It is attached to "dog" to indicate more than one.
 -ed in walked : It is added to "walk" to show that the action happened in the past.
c. Allomorph
Allomorphs are variant forms of morphemes, which means that, depending on the
context, they can appear in different ways. For example, For instance, the English plural
morpheme "-s" contains three allomorphs: /s/, /z/, and /ɪz/, which correspond to the words
"cats," "dogs," and "buses."
d. Inflective morpheme
Inflectional morphemes change a word's grammatical function without changing its
essential meaning. Usually, they provide information about case, gender, number, tense,
and comparison. For example, the inflectional morpheme (-er) is used with an adjective
to show a more comparative level. So the sentence will be “Naya is taller than Putri”
e. Derivative morpheme
Derivative morphemes is words with affixes appended to their base to create new words
with distinct meanings or grammatical categories. For example, "-ness" added to "kind"
creates "kindness"
"-ment" added to "develop" creates "development"
"-less" added to "hope" creates "hopeless"
2. Please explain each with examples

a. Tense
The term "tense" describes the relationship between the timing of an activity and the
speaking. There are various tenses in English, such as past, present, and future.
Example :
 She walked to the campus yesterday (past)
 She walks to the campus every day (present)
 She will walk to the campus tomorrow (future)
b. Aspect
The character or length of an action is indicated by its aspect. Common English
characteristics are perfect, progressive, and easy.
Example :
Progressive aspect: He is walking to the store right now
c. Number
A noun's number specifies if it is singular or plural
Example :
 Singular : The Dog is barking
 Plural : The Dogs are barking
d. Person
Person identifies the action's performer. For example, first person (I, we), second
person (you), and third person (he, she, it, they).
e. Case
A noun or pronoun's grammatical role in a sentence is indicated by its case.
Nominative (subject), accusative (direct object), and genitive (possessive) are
examples of common situations.
f. Voice
In a sentence, voice denotes the connection between the subject and the action. For
example, active voice: The cat chased the mouse, passive voice: The mouse was
chased by the cat.
3. Discuss and answer these concepts briefly and exemplify them!

a. Compounding
Compounding is a process of combining two or more words results in a new word
with a unique meaning. For example, rain + bow = rainbow
b. Blending
Parts of two or more words are blended together to form a new word with a combined
meaning. For example, breakfast + lunch = brunch
c. Clipping
The process of clipping entails taking out one or more syllables from a word to make
it shorter. For example, phone from telephone
d. Back information
Backformation is the process of creating a new word from an old one by deleting an
affix, usually a suffix. For example, edit from editor
e. Acronyms
The first letters of a phrase are combined to make an acronym, which is a single
word. For example, NASA: National Aeronautics and Space Administration
f. Borrowing
Adopting terms or expressions from another language and fusing them into one's own
is known as borrowing. For example, Piano: Taken from the "pianoforte" in Italian.

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