Across
- 2. type of morpheme that can stand alone as a word; is able to appear as a word all by itself.
- 3. a bound or free morpheme that performs a grammatical job. Free function morphemes are article, conjunctions, prepositions, auxiliary verbs, pronouns. Bound function morphemes only perform a grammatical task
- 6. the history of individual words (i.e. from what language(s) does it derive/come)
- 7. type of bound morpheme that are always suffixes in English and assign a particular grammatical property to that word such as: tense, number, possession, or comparison. They do not change the part of speech. (e.g. -s, -est, -ing, -ed)
- 9. a bound _____ cannot stand alone as a word and must be connected to another morpheme in order to appear in a word.
- 10. type of morpheme that cannot stand alone as a word and must be connected to another morpheme in order to appear in a word.
Down
- 1. a type of bound morpheme (only a prefix or suffix) that can be either a prefix or suffix and create a new word from and existing word by either changing the meaning or grammatical category (the part pf speech) (e.g. -ful, -ly, un-, dis-)
- 4. words or phrases/expressions (usually adverbial) that strengthen another word
- 5. a bound or free morpheme that carries real world meaning. Free content morphemes are nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs. Bound content morphemes significantly change meaning or a word’s part of speech.
- 8. __________ Class Categories parts of speech that do not readily take on new words or morphemes and include these are articles, auxiliary verbs, prepositions, conjunctions, pronouns
- 11. ___________ Class Categories - parts of speech that readily take on new words and morphemes , these are nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs