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The smallest meaningful unit of a language
What is a Morpheme?
Everyone Loves Raymond.
Is an example of ______ voice.
What is active voice?
What are Lexical Morphemes?
_____ is HOW a language is used.
_____ is how a language SHOULD be used.
What are Descriptive and Prescriptive languages?
In the following sentence, 'painted' is an example of this type of verb.
We painted the old rocking chair.
What is a transitive verb?
The word painted tells what happened to the chair.
A unit of pronunciation with one vowel sound.
What is a Syllable?
Raymond is loved by everyone.
Is an example of ____ voice.
What is Passive Voice?
These morphemes do not carry the content of a message but help with the grammar of the sentence.
What are functional morphemes?
These can stand alone as words with complete meaning while these require a word to be attached to them to impart meaning.
What are free and bound morphemes?
Sun, an, & and are examples of these.
What are syllables?
This tells who performs an action in a sentence.
What is active voice?
Quick and watch are examples of these.
What are free morphemes?
An approach to grammar that has rules for the proper use of the language.
What is prescriptive grammar?
_______ is a pronunciation which requires a vowel sound while ______ is the smallest meaningful unit of a language.
What are syllables and morphemes?
The italicized portion of the following word is an example of _____.
Encouragement.
What is a derivational morpheme?
These are used to make new words or to make words of a different grammatical category from the root.
What are derivational morphemes?
Er or ing are examples of these.
What are bound morphemes?
The way language is actually used by its speakers.
What is descriptive grammar?
____ does not carry the content of a message, but ____ does.
What are functional and lexical morphemes?
In the sentence, The old woman brought a big snake, the old woman is considered to be the ____ of the sentence.
What is the subject of the sentence?
These do not produce new words. They specify a grammatical function such as tense, number, person, or comparison.
What are inflectional morphemes?
Articles, conjunctions, pronouns, and prepositions are all considered these.
What are functional morphemes?
Nouns, Articles, Adjectives, Verbs, Adverbs, Prepositions, Pronouns, and Conjunctions.
What are the parts of speech?
_____ are action verbs that take on a direct object and answers the question of 'what?' in a sentence. However, an ______ is simply a verb that does not take on a direct object.
What are transitive and intransitive verbs?
/-s/ (Cats)
/-z/ (Dogs)
/-ez/ (Horses)
Are examples of these.
What are allomorphs?