This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Grammar > Grammar > Advanced > Morphology – Quiz 20 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Morphology Quiz 20 (30 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The words, such as brunch, edutainment, and emoticon are the examples of ..... A) Acronym. B) Clipping. C) Compounding. D) Borrowing. E) Blending. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Blending. 2. What is the meaning of the suffix:-ate A) Pertaining to, to, towards. B) That which does something. C) Quality of. D) Condition of. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Quality of. 3. In lead morphology, which property is most often analyzed to determine lead's environmental impact? A) Chemical composition. B) Morphological characteristics. C) Thermal stability. D) Physical structure. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Morphological characteristics. 4. Choose the example principal 5! A) Here, head. B) See, saw. C) Two, to. D) All answers are correct. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Two, to. 5. In english language inflectional morphemes can be A) Prefixes, suffixes, infixes. B) Prefixes and Suffixes. C) Suffixes only. D) Infixes only. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Suffixes only. 6. Basing on the function, morpheme can be classified as ..... A) Free & bound morphemes. B) Bases & affixes. C) Root & stem. D) Derivational & inflectional. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Derivational & inflectional. 7. A minimal unit of meaning is called a A) Phoneme. B) Lexeme. C) Morpheme. D) Tagmeme. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Morpheme. 8. How many plants among China rose, Ocimum, sunflower, mustard, Alstonia, guava, Calotropis and Nerium (Oleander) have opposite phyllotaxy? A) 5. B) 2. C) 3. D) 4. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 3. 9. Which of the following is NOT a cause of increased reticulocytes? A) Aplastic anemia. B) High altitude. C) Pregnancy. D) Hemolytic anemia. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Aplastic anemia. 10. A morpheme is physically realized (pronounced) as one or more morphs. These morphs are called allomorphs. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 11. What does the suffix-ous mean? A) Disease; feeling. B) Having. C) Study of. D) Straight. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Having. 12. Refers to the bound morphemes that indicate a shift in grammatical tense e.g. plurals and tense markers A) Affix. B) Derivational morpheme. C) Prefix. D) Inflectional morpheme. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Inflectional morpheme. 13. When the lamp crashed to the floor, Marcus realized how careless he had been. What does careless mean? A) Full of care. B) Above care. C) Without care. D) Characterized by care. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Without care. 14. What is a Bound Morpheme? A) It is a word element that cannot stand alone. B) It is a word element that can stand alone. C) It is a word. D) I don't know. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) It is a word element that cannot stand alone. 15. The following are minor word formations, except ..... A) Blending. B) Clipping. C) Acronym. D) Affixation. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Affixation. 16. In lead morphology, what does the term 'grain boundary' refer to? A) The interface between two crystals. B) The core of a lead atom. C) The surface of a lead compound. D) The edge of a lead sample. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The interface between two crystals. 17. He was arrested for the ..... act of taking something froma store without paying for it. A) Illegal. B) Illogical. C) Legal. D) Logical. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Illegal. 18. What is the difference between morphology and syntax? A) Morphology studies sentence structure, syntax studies word formation. B) Morphology studies word formation, syntax studies sentence structure. C) Both study sentence structure. D) Both study word formation. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Morphology studies word formation, syntax studies sentence structure. 19. Reasonable, collectible A) Full of. B) To be able to or can do. C) Past tense. D) Without. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) To be able to or can do. 20. What does the morpheme 'vid' mean? A) To smell. B) To touch. C) To hear. D) To see. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) To see. 21. The ability to create new words is called ..... A) Predication. B) Procreation. C) Productivity. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Productivity. 22. An example of false fruit is A) Mango. B) Banana. C) Grape. D) Strawberry. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Strawberry. 23. In marginal placentation, the ovules are arranged- A) Along the inner wall of the carpel in a syncarpous ovary. B) Along the margin of single carpel. C) In the middle of the ovary. D) To the base of the ovary. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Along the margin of single carpel. 24. What is the process of forming a new word by doubling an entire word or part of it? A) Affixation. B) Compounding. C) Reduplication. D) Blending. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Reduplication. 25. NASA means ..... A) National Airports and Space Administration. B) Naval Airways and Space Association. C) National Aeronautics and Space Association. D) National Aliens and Strangers Administration. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) National Aeronautics and Space Association. 26. Words are meaningful combinations of phonemes. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 27. Bases which are simplex are called roots. A) False. B) True. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 28. The word part "dis" is a A) Prefix. B) Verb. C) Root. D) Suffix. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Prefix. 29. What is the origin of the root "bene" ? A) Latin. B) Greek. C) German. D) French. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Latin. 30. The suffix-ish meansex. greenish, selfish A) In a certain way. B) Full of. C) Like. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Like. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesGrammar QuizzesEnglish Grammar QuizzesMorphology Quiz 1Morphology Quiz 2Morphology Quiz 3Morphology Quiz 4Morphology Quiz 5Morphology Quiz 6Morphology Quiz 7Morphology Quiz 8 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books