Morphemes And it classification

Morphemes And it classification

1. Welcome Topic: Different Classes of Morphemes

2. Morpheme: A morpheme is the smallest meaningful unit of a language For example: Incoming = in+ come+ ing Morphemes

3. Morphemes Free morphemes Bound morphemes Different Classes of Morphemes For example: man, can, beauty

4. Free morphemes: Lexical Grammatical

5. Lexical Morphemes Nouns : Pen, Man, Mango Adjectives : Kind, Beautiful Main Verbs : Go, Read, Cheat Adverbs : Happily, Homely . Example Grammatical morphemes Auxiliary verbs : is , can , may Determiners : a, the, much, little Prepositions : to, on, into, up, by Example

6. Morphemes Free morphemes Bound morphemes Different Classes of Morphemes For example: man, can, beauty For example : less, ness, ment

7. Bound morphemes Derivational Inflectional Class Maintaining Class Changing

8. Derivational morphemes Inflectional morphemes ment = agreement > Agreements er = bigger est = oldest ble = agreeable > agreeably Class Maintaining: hood in Boyhood Class Changing: al in national

9. Morphemes Free morphemes Bound morphemes Lexical Grammatical Derivational Inflectional Class Maintaining Class Changing

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