This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Grammar > Grammar > Advanced > Morphology – Quiz 3 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Morphology Quiz 3 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What does the root "vent" mean? A) Water. B) Come. C) Animal. D) Life. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Come. 2. Match the word with the definition:To not be true A) Untrue. B) Retrue. C) Pretrue. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Untrue. 3. The affixe "al" is added to a verb to give a/an A) Noun. B) Adjective. C) Verb. D) All of this. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Adjective. 4. What is the definition of Immediate Constituents (ICs)? A) ICs are any of the two meaningful parts forming a larger unit. B) ICs are any of the inflectional suffixes forming a larger unit. C) ICs are any of the morphemes in a larger unit. D) ICs are any of the derivational affixes forming a larger unit. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) ICs are any of the two meaningful parts forming a larger unit. 5. The morpheme un-in the words unhappy and unclear are: A) Content morphemes. B) Prefixes. C) Free morphemes. D) Suffixes. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Prefixes. 6. Sweet potato is a modified A) Rhizome. B) Stem. C) Tap root. D) Adventitious root. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Adventitious root. 7. The word autocorrect has A) A suffix. B) A compound word. C) Two syllables. D) A root. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A root. 8. REVIEW:Which prefix means "before" ? A) Post-. B) Pre-. C) Mis-. D) Un-. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pre-. 9. The root word meter means A) To measure something in length. B) To measure something in weight. C) To measure something in height. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To measure something in length. 10. The independent word is derived from a A) Prefix. B) Noun. C) Suffix. D) Adjective. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Prefix. 11. Which of the following features is not related to cockroach? A) Body divisible into head, thorax and abdomen. B) Two pairs of wings are found. C) Head lies posteriorly at right angles to the longitudinalbody axis. D) Presence of anal cerci in both sexes. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Head lies posteriorly at right angles to the longitudinalbody axis. 12. How many morphemes does the word "antiestablishment" have? A) 4. B) 3. C) 5. D) 2. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 3. 13. Which sentence describes derivational morphology? A) Adding a morpheme to produce a new word but the same lexeme. B) Adding a morpheme to produce a new word and a different lexeme. C) Adding a morpheme to produce the same word but a different lexeme. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Adding a morpheme to produce a new word and a different lexeme. 14. A word element that can stand alone as a word. A) Free morpheme. B) Bound morpheme. C) Morpheme. D) Inflectional morpheme. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Free morpheme. 15. Se crean o reforman palabras imitando patrones existentes, ej. white-collar = blue-collar, pink-collar, etc. A) Calque. B) Analogy. C) Coinage. D) Conversion. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Analogy. 16. What does the prefix "centi" mean? A) One hundredth. B) One minute. C) One thousand. D) One century. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) One hundredth. 17. INFIXATION IS UNDER WHAT BRANCH OF LINGUISTICS? A) MORPHOLOGY. B) PHONOLOGY. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) MORPHOLOGY. 18. Are Dogs free or bound? A) Free. B) Bound. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Bound. 19. Where do you find a conclusion sentence? A) At the beginning of a paragraph. B) In the middle of a paragraph. C) At the end of the paragraph. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) At the end of the paragraph. 20. Which root is used to denote something related to "heat" ? A) Phob. B) Astro. C) Therm. D) Dys. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Therm. 21. The prefix 'bene' means: A) Bad. B) Good. C) Possible. D) Land. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Good. 22. Some plants of arid regions modify their stems into flattened (Opuntia), or fleshy cylindrical (Euphorbia) green structures called- A) Rhizome. B) Phyllode. C) Phylloclade. D) Cladode. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Phylloclade. 23. If we divide the word "computer" into compute + er we are doing: A) Syntactic analysis. B) Semantic analysis. C) Orthographic analysis. D) Morphological analysis. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Morphological analysis. 24. The words "suspect" and "spectator" have to do with ..... A) Water. B) Seeing. C) Shape. D) Life. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Seeing. 25. A meaningful word part that comes before the root word. A) Prefix. B) Suffix. C) Affix. D) Predicate. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Prefix. 26. The French word 'mansion' entered the English lexicon as a result of which process? A) Compounding. B) Borrowing. C) Acronym. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Borrowing. 27. Which word means to move people or goods from place to another by bus, truck or ship? A) Portable. B) Transport. C) Teleport. D) Train. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Transport. 28. Which is NOT an example of a free morpheme? A) The. B) By. C) For. D) Un. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Un. 29. Per as in persevere means? A) For a person. B) Through. C) Brave. D) To hold. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Through. 30. The learners are continuously joking A) Are. B) Continuosly. C) Joking. D) All of the present verbs can be considered the main verb. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Joking. 31. Derivational morphology involves: A) Noun, verb, adjective. B) Prefixes, suffixes, affixes .,. C) Vowel, consonant, syllable. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Prefixes, suffixes, affixes .,. 32. What does the suffix "-er" mean? A) One who performs an action. B) The study of. C) Not. D) Again. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) One who performs an action. 33. What does the suffixes-ion, tion, ation mean? A) Opposite from. B) Is, can be. C) To break or burst. D) Act, process. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Act, process. 34. Which list has all words with inflectional morphology? A) Elements, linked, ordering, tend, killed. B) Elements, linked, ordering, unkind, killed. C) Elements, linked, ordering, have, killed. D) Elements, linked, ordering, Persians, killed. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Elements, linked, ordering, Persians, killed. 35. Which of the following is an example of a vestigial structure in humans? A) The appendix. B) The brain. C) The lungs. D) The heart. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The appendix. 36. Keel is characteristic of the flowers of A) Beans. B) Gulmohur. C) Cassia. D) Calotropis. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Beans. 37. In a phrase, we must have a word which is called the head. What is/are the head(s) of the following sentence?The boy took the parcel to the post-office. A) Boy. B) Boy, parcel, post-office. C) Boy parcel. D) Parcel. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Boy, parcel, post-office. 38. "wet" is an adjective and can also be used as a verb. Which type of word formation is it? A) Blending. B) Borrowing. C) Conversion. D) Coinage. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Conversion. 39. Teacher, instructor A) One who does. B) Relating to having characteristics of. C) Causing or making. D) Full of. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) One who does. 40. Which is a free morpheme? A) Ous. B) S. C) Re. D) Joy. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Joy. 41. The root word 'phobia' means: A) Dislike. B) Prefix. C) Spiders. D) Fear. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Fear. 42. Which sentence describe inflectional morphology A) Adding a morpheme to produce a new word but the same lexeme. B) Adding a morpheme to produce a new word and different lexeme. C) Adding a morpheme to produce the same word but diff lexeme. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Adding a morpheme to produce a new word but the same lexeme. 43. Which word is the adverb in the following sentence? The clumsy horse trotted slowly down the track. A) Horse. B) Slowly. C) Clumsy. D) Trotted. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Slowly. 44. Assertion (A):Periplaneta americana is nocturnal, omnivorous, household pest.Reason (R):It is because it acts as scavenger. A) A is true but R is false. B) Both A and R are true and R is correctexplanation of A. C) Both A and R are true but R is not correctexplanation of A. D) A is false but R is true. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Both A and R are true but R is not correctexplanation of A. 45. Which is the BOUND morpheme(s) of the word 'organization'. A) Or-. B) -ize. C) -ation. D) -all. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) -ation. 46. We often make ..... with the suffix-ly. A) Nouns. B) Adjectives. C) Adverbs. D) Pronouns. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Adverbs. 47. What is the meaning of the root word:pos A) To place or put:to pause or temporarily halt. B) Pointed, stabbed, or pierced, prompt. C) Alone. D) To build. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To place or put:to pause or temporarily halt. 48. An agreement or a promise between two or more people. A) Convention. B) Covenant. C) Intervene. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Covenant. 49. Which of the following sentences demonstrates correct syntax? A) The brown fox quickly jumps over the lazy dog. B) Quickly the brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. C) The quickly brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. D) The brown fox jumps quickly over the lazy dog. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The brown fox quickly jumps over the lazy dog. 50. Type of inflection indicates 3rd person singular (present) is ..... A) She never tidies her bedroom. B) It is Lala's boardgame. C) My grandpa sharpened the knives. D) I am shouting angrily. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) She never tidies her bedroom. 51. Root hairs usually develop in which region of a typical tap root? A) Region of Maturation. B) Region of Meristematic activity. C) Region of Elongation. D) Root cap. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Region of Maturation. 52. What does the word unkind mean? A) Not kind. B) Hungry. C) Helpful. D) Nice. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Not kind. 53. Cyathium is found in the family ..... A) Sapotaceae. B) Moraceae. C) Euphorbiaceae. D) Lamiaceae. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Euphorbiaceae. 54. A ..... is a host to which an affix attaches. A) Free root. B) Bound root. C) Stem. D) Suffix. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Stem. 55. The lexeme WALK has forms like walk, walks, walked, walking that can be used in different grammatical contexts. When we change the form of a word so that it fits in a particular grammatical context, we are concerned with what linguists call ..... A) Derivation. B) Morpheme. C) Lexeme. D) Inflection. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Inflection. 56. Identify the word-formation process:breakfast + lunch = brunch A) Blend. B) Category extension. C) Acronym. D) Proper name. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Blend. 57. Select the sentence that uses the word contamination correctly. A) The ocean's contamination is healthy for all the fish. B) Contamination is clean. C) Contamination in the air is caused by factories. D) The contamination is easily heard. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Contamination in the air is caused by factories. 58. What is a low energy coastline? A) Where erosion exceeds deposition. B) Where deposition exceeds erosion. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Where deposition exceeds erosion. 59. "A certainly adventurous journey" . Which word is the head of the phrase? A) Certainly. B) The words "adventurous journey" are the head. C) Adventurous. D) Journey. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Journey. 60. 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