Morphology & Lexicology

What is the difference between a free morpheme and a bound morpheme?

A free morpheme can stand alone as a word (e.g., "drive"), while a bound morpheme cannot stand alone and must be attached to another morpheme to convey meaning (e.g., "struct" in "destruction").

All ________ and ________ are bound morphemes.

prefixes - suffixes

The morpheme ‘pact’, meaning “to fasten”, is a __________ morpheme.

bound

Is the suffix -ed an inflectional or a derivational bound morpheme? Why or why not?

It is an inflectional morpheme - because it merely indicates tense in verbs (i.e. present > past). It doesn’t change the meaning of a word or its word class/part of speech).

Inflectional morphemes are always _________.

suffixes

What are the 8 inflectional morphemes?

-ed (played), -ing (playing), -en (broken), -s (plays) / -s (dogs) -es (dishes), -er (faster), -est (fastest), -’s (Tom’s)