This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Grammar > Grammar > Advanced > Morphology – Quiz 6 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Morphology Quiz 6 (30 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. 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 .,. 2. What does the suffix "-er" mean? A) Again. B) One who performs an action. C) The study of. D) Not. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) One who performs an action. 3. What does the suffixes-ion, tion, ation mean? A) Is, can be. B) Act, process. C) To break or burst. D) Opposite from. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Act, process. 4. Which list has all words with inflectional morphology? A) Elements, linked, ordering, have, killed. B) Elements, linked, ordering, unkind, killed. C) Elements, linked, ordering, tend, killed. D) Elements, linked, ordering, Persians, killed. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Elements, linked, ordering, Persians, killed. 5. Which of the following is an example of a vestigial structure in humans? A) The heart. B) The lungs. C) The appendix. D) The brain. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The appendix. 6. Keel is characteristic of the flowers of A) Gulmohur. B) Calotropis. C) Cassia. D) Beans. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Beans. 7. 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, parcel, post-office. B) Boy. C) Boy parcel. D) Parcel. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Boy, parcel, post-office. 8. "wet" is an adjective and can also be used as a verb. Which type of word formation is it? A) Conversion. B) Borrowing. C) Blending. D) Coinage. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Conversion. 9. Teacher, instructor A) Relating to having characteristics of. B) One who does. C) Causing or making. D) Full of. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) One who does. 10. Which is a free morpheme? A) S. B) Ous. C) Re. D) Joy. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Joy. 11. The root word 'phobia' means: A) Prefix. B) Fear. C) Spiders. D) Dislike. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Fear. 12. 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. 13. Which word is the adverb in the following sentence? The clumsy horse trotted slowly down the track. A) Trotted. B) Clumsy. C) Slowly. D) Horse. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Slowly. 14. 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. 15. Which is the BOUND morpheme(s) of the word 'organization'. A) Or-. B) -ize. C) -ation. D) -all. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) -ation. 16. We often make ..... with the suffix-ly. A) Pronouns. B) Adjectives. C) Nouns. D) Adverbs. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Adverbs. 17. What is the meaning of the root word:pos A) Alone. B) To build. C) To place or put:to pause or temporarily halt. D) Pointed, stabbed, or pierced, prompt. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To place or put:to pause or temporarily halt. 18. 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. 19. Which of the following sentences demonstrates correct syntax? A) Quickly the brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. B) The quickly brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. C) The brown fox jumps quickly over the lazy dog. D) The brown fox quickly jumps over the lazy dog. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The brown fox quickly jumps over the lazy dog. 20. 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. 21. Root hairs usually develop in which region of a typical tap root? A) Region of Maturation. B) Root cap. C) Region of Elongation. D) Region of Meristematic activity. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Region of Maturation. 22. What does the word unkind mean? A) Not kind. B) Nice. C) Hungry. D) Helpful. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Not kind. 23. Cyathium is found in the family ..... A) Moraceae. B) Lamiaceae. C) Euphorbiaceae. D) Sapotaceae. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Euphorbiaceae. 24. A ..... is a host to which an affix attaches. A) Stem. B) Suffix. C) Bound root. D) Free root. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Stem. 25. 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. 26. Identify the word-formation process:breakfast + lunch = brunch A) Category extension. B) Proper name. C) Acronym. D) Blend. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Blend. 27. 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. 28. 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. 29. "A certainly adventurous journey" . Which word is the head of the phrase? A) Certainly. B) Adventurous. C) The words "adventurous journey" are the head. D) Journey. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Journey. 30. Identify the word-formation process:hamburger < Hamburg (Germany) A) Acronym. B) Blend. C) Proper name. D) Category extension. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Proper name. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesGrammar QuizzesEnglish Grammar QuizzesMorphology Quiz 1Morphology Quiz 2Morphology Quiz 3Morphology Quiz 4Morphology Quiz 5Morphology Quiz 7Morphology Quiz 8Morphology Quiz 9 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books