Punctuation
Which sentence fragments are better to avoid?
Subordinate clauses, loosely joined phrases, coordinated expressions
What are the 3 types of morphemes?
prefix, base/root, suffix
... morphemes express a grammatical property, such as tense or number.
Inflectional
... involves removing part of a word (usually the end) and retaining the remaining part. (e.g. celeb)
Clipping
How is the mistake called? "I used to be afraid of him I have since got to know him well".
Run-on sentence
Which two conditions are required for a morpheme?
1. A morpheme must contribute to the overall meaning of the word. 2. A morpheme must be identifiable from one word to another.
... involves combining two free morphemes to make a new word.
Compounding
... are words formed by combining the initial letters or syllables of existing words to form new words. The combination is then pronounced as a single word. (e.g. AIDS)
Acronyms
How is the mistake called? "I used to be afraid of him, I have since got to know him well".
Comma splice
This type of morpheme can stand alone as a word in its own right.
Free
"Airport, bedroom, helpline" are examples of ... compounds because they have an internal semantic centre that helps us to work out what they mean.
Endocentric
... are also formed by combining the initial letters of words but, in this case, the word is pronounced by spelling out each letter separately.
Abbreviations
What are the central coordinators?
And, or, but
This type of morpheme cannot occur as a separate word.
Bound
"Honeymoon, scapegoat, egghead" are examples of ... compounds in which no part of the word points directly to the meaning of the whole.
Different words which are pronounced in the same way but spelled differently are called ...
homophones
This type of relative clause offers additional information.
Non-restrictive
Prefixes and suffixes are types of ... morphemes.
... is similar to compounding except that the morphemes are not always complete words in themselves. Only parts of existing words are combined to make a new word (e.g. biopic)
Blending
What is the plural form of "half"?
halves