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    The document provides 11 exercises that focus on identifying word parts such as roots, affixes, bases, and stems in English words. The exercises ask students to identify, define, combine, and modify word parts through activities like underlining roots, writing meanings, adding prefixes and suffixes, and determining word classifications. The goal is to build understanding of morphological analysis and how words are constructed in English.

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    EXERCISES – ROOTS, AFFIXES, BASES, STEMS

    Exercise 1: Underline the roots in these words.

    1 womanly 5 enlighten 9 unlikely 13 unenlivened

    2 endear 6 friendship 10 prewar 14 supernatural

    3 failure 7 befriend 11 subway 15 cigarette lighter

    4 infamous 8 Bostonian 12 falsify 16 irreplaceable

    Exercise2: Write the meaning of the italicized bound roots.

    1 audience, audible, audition => hear 7 tenable, tenant, tenacious => hold

    2 suicide, patricide, infanticide => kill 8 pendulum, pendant, suspenders => hang or
    wait
    3 oral, oration, oracle => speak
    9 manual, manicure (làm móng tay ),
    4 aquaplane, aquatic, aquarium => water
    manuscript => hand
    5 mortuary, mortal, moribund => dead
    10 eject, inject, projectile
    6 corpse, corporation, corporeal => body
     Throw

    Exercise 3: Write the meaning of the roots in the first column. In the second column write another
    English word that contains the same bound root.

    1 revise (see) 6 recur 11 portable

    2 contradict 7 inspect 12 rupture

    3 regress 8 oppose 13 annual

    4 intervene 9 inspire 14 carnal

    5 comprehend 10 rodent 15 bigamy

    Exercise 4: Below you're given a list of prefixes and another of bound roots, all from Latin. For each, the
    area of meaning is roughly indicated. Combine each base with the prefixes to form words. In some cases
    you have to add the suffix as well. Prefixes ending with a consonant tend to assimilate to the first
    phoneme of the root. These assimilated form are given in parentheses.

    Prefixes Bound bases (roots)

    ad- (ac-, at-): to, toward 1 -tain: hold

    com- (con-): with, together with, in 2 -ceive/ -cept/ -ceit: take

    de-: from, down, away 3 -fer: carry, bear

    dis- (dif-): apart 4 -clude: shut, close

    ex- (e-): from, out from, out of 5 -port: carry


    in- (im-): in(to), toward

    inter-: between, among

    per-: through, thoroughly

    pre-: before, in advance

    pro-: forward, before, forth

    re-: back, again

    sub- (sup-): under

    trans-: across, beyond, through

    Exercise 5: Write the meaning of the prefixes in the following words. Then find another word containing
    the same prefix with same meaning. Number 3, 10, 11 and 14 contain variants of a prefix morpheme.

    1 antidote 9 disagreeable 17 proceed

    2 circumvent 10 insecure / imperfect / 18 retroactive


    illegible / irreverent
    3 copilot / collect / compact / 19 semiprofessional
    convene / corrode 11 inspire / imbibe
    20 subway
    4 contradict 12 intervene
    21 superabundant
    5 revitalise 13 intramural
    22 unlikely
    6 delouse 14 obstruct / oppose
    23 undress
    7 devalue 15 prewar

    8 disunion 16 postwar

    Exercise 6: In these words the root is italicised. After each word write the number of suffixes it contains.

    1 organist ______ 6 contradictorily______

    2 personalities ______ 7 trusteeship ______

    3 flirtatiously ______ 8 greasier ______

    4 atomizers ______ 9 countrified ______

    5 friendliest ______ 10 responsibilities ______

    Exercise 7: Identify the following suffixes whether they are DS (derivational suffixes), IS (inflectional
    suffixes) or A (Ambiguous).

    1 princes 4 friendlier 7 leaner 10 brighten

    2 princess 5 shows 8 satirize 11 quickly

    3 findings 6 weaver 9 springy 12 rectify


    13 brotherly 15 younger 17 glimmer 19 droppings

    14 respectable 16 cleanly 18 grievance 20 sunny

    Exercise 8: The left-hand column contains 10 words. The right-hand column contains some derivational
    suffixes used to make nouns and having the general meaning of “state, condition, quality, or act of”.
    Combine these suffixes with the words listed to make the nouns.

    Words Noun-forming derivational suffixes

    1 happy -hood -ance

    2 friend -acy -th

    3 girl -ism -ure

    4 compose -ness

    5 shrink -ment

    6 active -age

    7 supreme -y

    8 true -ation

    9 pagan -ship

    10 discover -ity

    Exercise 9: Add the derivational suffix to each of these words, which already end in a derivational suffix.

    1 reasonable 3 organise 5 purist

    2 formal 4 purify

    Exercise 10: Add an inflectional suffix to each of these words, which end in derivational suffixes.

    1 kindness 4 popularize 7 extend 10 loud

    2 beautify 5 depth 8 orientate

    3 quarterly 6 pressure 9 friendly

    Exercise 11: For each of the following words, identify the root, inflectional suffixes, derivational affixes,
    bases, and stems.

    1 manliness (n) 3 cigarettes (n) 5 hopefully (adv)

    2 lighters (n) 4 localized (adj)

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