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Q1 Spot the wrong statement 3 (adj =/= closed class)
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Adjectives are a closed class.
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Verbs are an open class.
Prepositions are a closed class.
function words, these hardly ever change and languages in general are reluctant to adopt new ones.]]>
Pronouns are a closed class.
function words, these hardly ever change and languages in general are reluctant to adopt new ones.]]>
Adverbs are an open class.
Sorry, this statement is totally correct - like verbs and adjectives, adverbs are an open class and thus one of the more productive lexical categories.
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Nae morpheme - nae wurd, as they would say in Aberdeen...
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syllable but... (can you guess what I would say now?)]]>
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And do you remember why there are two morphemes????
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Your enthusiasm in all honour but I think you overshot the mark a bit on this one...
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number and case as a hint!]]>
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number and the case (hint, hint...)!]]>
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Good work - can you identify the three?
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Good stuff!
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You might have been thinking about syllables; however, they are not the same thing as morphemes.
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Nae morpheme - nae word, as an Aberdonian linguist would say...
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It's one word but that doesn't mean it can't have more than one morpheme.
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Almost but not quite.
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Q2 Spot the correct statement (affixes)
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That's true! All - fixes are part of the group of affixes.
in a word. Admittedly, they are very rare in English.]]>
In English, prefixes regularly change the word class.
Q2 Spot the correct statement 1 (features of morphemes)
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A morpheme is a minimal unit of meaning and sound.
The statement is partially true - yes, morphemes have to do with meaning but not generally sound.
A free morpheme cannot stand alone as a word.
Because the morpheme is free, it can stand by itself, the bound morphemes are unable to do so!
All words must contain two or more morphemes.
Well, not necessarily! A fair number of words only contain one morpheme. It only has to be a free one!
A morpheme is a minimal unit of meaning and form.
A true statement!
quickly is...]]>
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an adverb
-ly gives it away.]]>
an adjective
Not quite! Adjectives are generally found in front of nouns. What was that lexical category called again that can modify verbs?
a pronoun
quickly really replace a noun?]]>
a determiner
'fraid not. Determiners precede nouns. The word in question fulfills a very different function. Which word in the sentence does it modify more closely?
Which word formation process gave us the word hoover?
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eponym
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clipping
I'm afraid, nothing has been clipped here. Does sandwich give you a hint at the right formation label?
blending
Sorry, no blending has taken place here. Does sandwich give you a hint at the right formation label?
back-formation
Back-formations are not very common and hoover is not one of them. Does sandwich give you a hint at the right formation label?
her is....]]>
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a pronoun
That's right!
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a determiner
The, a/an are the most common determiners and they generally precede nouns. Is this really the case here??]]>
an adverb
Adverbs often have the suffix -ly (quickly, nicely, etc.) but can also take different other forms (here, often, very, etc.).
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a conjunction
and, but and or are conjunctions. Does her really fulfill this kind of function?]]>