VCE English Language 2025 Unit 1 AOS 1: 'Nature and Functions of Language' Key Vocab

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Morpheme

The smallest meaningful unit of language.

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Root Morpheme

The most basic stem of a word.

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Stem morpheme

The morpheme attached to the stem to alter the meaning.

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Free morpheme

A morpheme that can stand alone as a word and has meaning.

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Bound morpheme

A morpheme that cannot stand alone as a word and must be attached to another morpheme to convey meaning.

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Affix

A morpheme that is added to a word to create a new word or alter its meaning, which includes prefixes and suffixes.

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Prefix

A type of affix that is added to the beginning of a word to modify its meaning.

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Suffix

A morpheme added to the end of a word to create a new word or alter its meaning.

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Infix

A type of affix that is inserted into a word to modify its meaning, not often used in English.

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Inflectional morphemes

Suffixes added to a word to express grammatical relationships, such as tense, mood, or number.

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Derivational morphemes

Affixes that create a new word or change the grammatical category of a base word.