Morphology Practice

Latin Roots

100

A latin root can stand alone in a word. 

False 

200

This root means to break or to burst. 

rupt 

300

Cred means ~

to believe 

400

To hear or listen 

aud

500

Ject means ~

to throw or lie

Greek Roots

100

This means "light"

photo

200

To write or to draw 

Graph/gram

300

Struct means ~ (this is actually a Latin root)

to build

400

Distant or far

Tele

500

Phon means ~

sound

Prefixes

100

Below or less

sub

200

To cause, put into, or within (think of M&M's)

en, em

300

Before or in front of

fore 

400

Below or less

under 

500

Against or opposite (think of hand sanitizer)

anti 

Suffixes

100

State of 

ness

200

Causing or making 

ive 

300

Relating to or characterized by 

al

400

act of, state of, result of 

ion 

500

State or quality of 

ty

Random

100

What rule was used to make this word - "hoping"

e-drop rule

200

What rule was made to make this word "hopping"

1-1-1 rule 

300

What are the 3 sounds -ed can say?

/id/, /ed/, /t/

400

What does "plural" mean and what are the two suffixes to make a word plural?

more than one - s and es

500

If you want to make a word plural that ends in a consonant y, what do you do?

drop the y, add and i and add es