Chapter4 Morphology MCQs

 

 

 

Chapter 4 Morphology

 MCQs

1. What is a morpheme?
A) The smallest unit of meaning in a language
B) A complete word
C) A type of sentence
D) A phoneme
Answer: A

2. Which of the following is a free morpheme?
A) -ed
B) run
C) un-
D) -s
Answer: B

3. Bound morphemes:
A) Can stand alone
B) Have no meaning
C) Must be attached to other morphemes
D) Are always prefixes
Answer: C

4. The suffix -s in cats is an example of:
A) Free morpheme
B) Derivational morpheme
C) Inflectional morpheme
D) Root morpheme
Answer: C

5. Adding un- to happy to form unhappy is an example of:
A) Inflection
B) Derivation
C) Compounding
D) Reduplication
Answer: B

6. Which process creates a new word without changing its grammatical category?
A) Derivation
B) Inflection
C) Compounding
D) Clipping
Answer: B

7. The word bookshelf is an example of:
A) Derivation
B) Inflection
C) Compounding
D) Reduplication
Answer: C

8. Which of the following is NOT a bound morpheme?
A) -ing
B) walk
C) -ness
D) re-
Answer: B

9. The suffix -er in teacher changes the word from a verb to a:
A) Noun
B) Adjective
C) Verb
D) Adverb
Answer: A

10. Inflectional morphemes:
A) Change the meaning of the word
B) Change the word’s grammatical form without changing meaning
C) Create new words
D) Are always prefixes
Answer: B

11. Which of the following languages is considered isolating?
A) Turkish
B) English
C) Mandarin Chinese
D) Spanish
Answer: C

12. Agglutinative languages are characterized by:
A) Single morphemes per word
B) Many bound morphemes fused into one
C) Clear boundaries between affixes, each with one grammatical meaning
D) No affixes
Answer: C

13. Fusional languages:
A) Have many isolated morphemes
B) Combine several grammatical meanings in a single affix
C) Do not use affixes
D) Use only prefixes
Answer: B

14. Which of these is an example of compounding?
A) unhappy
B) teacher
C) blackboard
D) walked
Answer: C

15. Conversion in morphology means:
A) Changing a word’s meaning by adding a prefix
B) Changing a word’s grammatical category without changing form
C) Repeating part of a word
D) Removing a suffix
Answer: B

16. Which of the following is an example of derivation?
A) talk → talked
B) happy → unhappy
C) cat → cats
D) football
Answer: B

17. What is the root of the word redoing?
A) re-
B) do
C) -ing
D) doin
Answer: B

18. What kind of morpheme is -ed in walked?
A) Derivational
B) Inflectional
C) Free
D) Root
Answer: B

19. Which word contains a free morpheme and a bound morpheme?
A) teacher
B) cat
C) books
D) Both A and C
Answer: D

20. The process of clipping refers to:
A) Adding prefixes
B) Shortening a longer word
C) Combining two words
D) Changing word class
Answer: B

21. In morphological typology, which language type often uses many affixes per word?
A) Isolating
B) Agglutinative
C) Analytic
D) None of the above
Answer: B

22. Which of the following is a characteristic of isolating languages?
A) Words often have many affixes
B) Each word typically contains one morpheme
C) Words often change form with inflections
D) Morphemes are fused together
Answer: B

23. Which language is an example of a fusional language?
A) Turkish
B) Spanish
C) Vietnamese
D) Japanese
Answer: B

24. Reduplication is:
A) Adding an affix to form a new word
B) Repeating a whole or part of a word
C) Combining two words
D) Removing a sound
Answer: B

25. Which process creates words like smog (smoke + fog)?
A) Clipping
B) Blending
C) Derivation
D) Inflection
Answer: B

26. The smallest unit of meaning that cannot be further divided is called:
A) Phoneme
B) Morpheme
C) Syntax
D) Grapheme
Answer: B

27. Which of the following affixes is derivational?
A) -s (plural)
B) -ed (past tense)
C) un- (negation)
D) -ing (progressive)
Answer: C

28. The morpheme -s in dogs is:
A) Derivational
B) Inflectional
C) Free
D) Root
Answer: B

29. The root in the word unhappiness is:
A) happy
B) un-
C) -ness
D) hap
Answer: A

30. Which process is illustrated by books from book?
A) Inflection
B) Derivation
C) Compounding
D) Blending
Answer: A

31. Which of the following is NOT a word formation process?
A) Derivation
B) Inflection
C) Syntax
D) Compounding
Answer: C

32. The prefix re- means:
A) Not
B) Again
C) Before
D) After
Answer: B

33. The suffix -ness in happiness changes the word class from:
A) Noun to verb
B) Verb to noun
C) Adjective to noun
D) Noun to adjective
Answer: C

34. What type of morpheme is anti- in antibiotic?
A) Bound derivational morpheme
B) Free morpheme
C) Inflectional morpheme
D) Root
Answer: A

35. Which of the following words is formed by compounding?
A) unhappy
B) sunflower
C) walked
D) teacher
Answer: B

36. Morphological typology classifies languages based on:
A) Sentence structure
B) Word formation and morpheme use
C) Vocabulary size
D) Sound inventory
Answer: B

37. Agglutinative languages usually have:
A) No affixes
B) Fused morphemes with multiple meanings
C) Clear and separable affixes
D) Only free morphemes
Answer: C

38. Inflectional affixes in English include:
A) -er and un-
B) -ed, -s, -ing
C) re- and -ness
D) pre- and post-
Answer: B

39. The word bookshelf is:
A) Derived
B) Inflected
C) Compounded
D) Reduplicated
Answer: C

40. Which process changes a verb into a noun by adding -er?
A) Inflection
B) Derivation
C) Clipping
D) Conversion
Answer: B

41. A language that uses very few or no affixes and relies on word order is called:
A) Agglutinative
B) Isolating
C) Fusional
D) Polysynthetic
Answer: B

42. Which of these is a characteristic of fusional languages?
A) Each affix expresses one grammatical category
B) Affixes fuse multiple grammatical categories together
C) No affixes used
D) Words are always one morpheme
Answer: B

43. In English, walk → walking shows:
A) Derivation
B) Inflection
C) Compounding
D) Conversion
Answer: B

44. The word smog is created by:
A) Reduplication
B) Blending
C) Clipping
D) Conversion
Answer: B

45. The process of forming words by joining two or more roots is called:
A) Derivation
B) Inflection
C) Compounding
D) Clipping
Answer: C

46. Which of these is an example of a bound morpheme?
A) cat
B) run
C) -ed
D) play
Answer: C

47. The prefix dis- in dislike means:
A) Again
B) Not or opposite
C) Before
D) After
Answer: B

48. Inflectional affixes typically:
A) Change word meaning
B) Change word class
C) Mark grammatical categories like tense or number
D) Are always prefixes
Answer: C

49. Which language is known for polysynthetic morphology?
A) Turkish
B) Inuktitut
C) English
D) Mandarin
Answer: B

50. Which of the following is an example of a free morpheme?
A) -ing
B) play
C) re-
D) -s
Answer: B