This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Grammar > Advanced > Morphology – Quiz 39 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Morphology Quiz 39 (30 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What does the Vocabulary word Issue mean? A) Important topic. B) Words joined togeether using a hyphen. C) The quality of sound, usually in music. D) A job that needs a high level of training and education. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Important topic. 2. True or false:"Dis" -used when the word begins with "p" or "m" A) True. B) False . C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False . 3. What is the morpheme in the word 'cats'? A) Cat. B) -s. C) Cats. D) -t. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) -s. 4. Which root means "fear" ? A) Hydr. B) Hyper. C) Phob. D) Scrib. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Phob. 5. Maize grain is a- A) Seed. B) Fruit. C) Flower. D) Inflorescence. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Fruit. 6. In linguistics, what is the term for a morpheme that can stand alone as a word and carries meaning by itself, like "book" or "run" ? A) Suffixes. B) Prefixes. C) Free morpheme. D) Bound morpheme. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Free morpheme. 7. What does "port" mean? A) To Write. B) To Watch or Look. C) To Build. D) To Carry. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) To Carry. 8. Grad A) Step. B) Write. C) Water. D) Equal. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Step. 9. After rolling and playing in mud puddles, my dog returned home brown and filthy. What does the word filthy mean? A) Characterized by dirt and filth. B) Characterized by rain and water. C) Characterized by dogs and animals. D) Characterized by home and places. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Characterized by dirt and filth. 10. What is the definition of the root 'photo'? A) Light. B) Darkness. C) Water. D) Earth. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Light. 11. Which suffix means 'study of'? A) -ology. B) -er. C) -ness. D) -ful. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) -ology. 12. Which suffix denotes how an action is? A) -ed. B) -s. C) -ing. D) -ly. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) -ly. 13. Which of the following words undergo inflection? A) Closure. B) Unlucky. C) Ensure. D) Active. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Unlucky. 14. "Under the dying tree" is ..... A) A noun phrase. B) A verbal phrase. C) A prepositional phrase. D) An adverbial phrase. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A prepositional phrase. 15. Non-derivation A) Employee. B) Shoeless. C) Reread. D) Examining. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Examining. 16. What is the process of adding a prefix or suffix to a word called? A) Inflection. B) Derivation. C) Compounding. D) Blending. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Derivation. 17. A type of abbreviation in which new words are formed from the initial letters of a set of words, and they are pronounced as new single words is called ..... A) Acronyms. B) Compounding. C) Blending. D) Clipping. E) Borrowing. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Acronyms. 18. Which of the following is NOT an adjective? A) Shell. B) Scary. C) Yellow. D) Old. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Shell. 19. Siliqua fruit occurs in A) Hibiscus rosa-sinensis. B) Solanum nigrum. C) Brassica campestris. D) Althaea rosea. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Brassica campestris. 20. Match the word with the definition:To read again A) Reread. B) Inread. C) Preread. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Reread. 21. Word formation processes in which words are combined are: A) Compounding and blending. B) Back-formation and clipping. C) Eponyms. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Compounding and blending. 22. Inflectional affixes don't have exactly the same meaning in all words they are attached to. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 23. Structures that DO NOT have a common evolutionary origin but are similar in function A) Analogous structures. B) Homologous structures. C) Vestigial structures. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Analogous structures. 24. Monocarpellary ovary diadelphous androceium and marginal placentation occurs in A) Brassicaceae. B) Asteraceae. C) Liliaceae. D) Fabaceae. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Fabaceae. 25. Which best completes the sentence? ..... talk to the teacher after class. A) Students. B) Moby. C) He. D) She. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Students. 26. What do the prefixes IN and IM mean? A) Under, from below. B) To look. C) With, thoroughly. D) In, into, not. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) In, into, not. 27. Non- A) Not. B) Seven. C) All. D) Because. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Not. 28. A suffix will never appear at the end of a word. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 29. Inter- A) Between. B) Person who does. C) Outside. D) Under. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Between. 30. Derivational morphemes generally A) Change the part of speech or the basic meaning of a word. B) Do not change basic syntactic category. C) Express grammatically-required features or indicate relations between different words in the sentence. D) I do not know ant it does not matter. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Change the part of speech or the basic meaning of a word. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesGrammar QuizzesMorphology Quiz 1Morphology Quiz 2Morphology Quiz 3Morphology Quiz 4Morphology Quiz 5Morphology Quiz 6Morphology Quiz 7Morphology Quiz 8Morphology Quiz 9 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books