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English Language. Common errors. OPEN CLASS WORDS vs CLOSED CLASS WORDS. WHEN ASKED TO IDENTIFY A morpheme DON’T ANSWER WITH A WORD THAT CONTAINS MULTIPLE morphemes WITHOUT IDENTIFYING THE morpheme IN QUESTION!!!. “ killing ” is not an answer. Why?. “kill –”. or. “- ing ” .
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English Language Common errors
OPEN CLASS WORDS vs CLOSED CLASS WORDS
WHEN ASKED TO IDENTIFY A morpheme DON’T ANSWER WITH A WORD THAT CONTAINS MULTIPLE morphemes WITHOUT IDENTIFYING THE morpheme IN QUESTION!!!
“kill –” or “-ing”
A morpheme is… the smallest unit of meaning -ive pre - script in- -ion de- con-
The stem of a word is… a morpheme that can stand alone – it represents the core meaning of the word
anger So how does adding a “D” change its meaning to DANGER?
an So how does it get from AN to DANGER?
get So how does it get from get to together?
to get her seriosusly?
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Morphology is like algebra: killing = x + y x = kill y = -ing killing = kill + ing
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