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Bound, suffix, derivational
Bound, suffix, derivational
Bound, suffix, derivational
d. Recondition
-ed
e. Unidirect
-ion
-al
f. Sense
-less
g. Thick
-en
-er
-s
h. Nation
-al
-ize
-ation
i. Unspeak
-able
ly
3. In each group of four words below, two words have the same
morphological structure, one has a different suffix from those two,
and one has no suffix at all. Your task is to separate these groups
according to the above information, tell which words have the
same suffix, which has a different suffix, and which has no suffix at
all.
a) Same: Rider, smoker Who does action named by verb
Different: Colder more than
No suffix: Silver
b) Same: tresses, melodies plural
Different: Bess's possessive
No suffix: guess "s" is part of root
c) Same: running, handling "name of action"
Different: foundling suffix ling- means: who possesses a
feature or characteristic"
No suffix: fling "ing" is part of root
5. Isolate the affixes and the stems in the following groups of words.
Then name the part of speech class of the root word to which the
stem belongs, and say whether the affixation results in a word
belonging to a different part of a speech class.
a) Spite-ful
health-ful
truth-ful
b) un-sure
un-true
un-happy
c) re-take
re-view
re-live
d) stop-able
fix-able
laugh-able