COMPREHENSIVE QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS GRADE A+ 2024 UPDATE
Students should learn inflectional suffixes such as -ed and -s before learning
derivational suffixes like -ful and -less.
true
Adding a derivational suffix to a word often changes the part of speech.
true
The noun plural is pronounced as a whole syllable, /əs/, when it follows which
type of phoneme? Select all that apply.
b. some fricatives
d. affricates
Look at the syllable breaks in the words below. In which word do the syllable
breaks correspond exactly with divisions between morphemes?
care-ful-ly
For which of these verbs would you need to change y to i before adding the suffix
-ed? Select all that apply.
defy
deny
match it
re- again
dis- not
inter- between
pre- before
sub- under
ad- to or toward
mis- wrongly
trans- across, through
anti- against
ex- out of
super- over
1. Certain inflectional suffixes can alter the part of speech of a word.
false
2. To form the past participle of the verb "fall," which suffix would you add?
-en
3. Which phoneme did you hear at the end of each word?
/t/
4. Which phoneme did you hear at the end of each word?
/d/
5. Which phoneme combination did you hear at the end of each word?