This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Grammar > Advanced > Morphology – Quiz 31 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Morphology Quiz 31 (25 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which prefix means again or repeat; back or backwards? A) Mis-. B) Pre-. C) Trans-. D) Re-. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Re-. 2. Which of the following words does not use the suffix "-less" meaning without? A) Hopeless. B) Spotless. C) Bless. D) Thoughtless. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Bless. 3. What do you call a person with very large ears? A) Macrodont. B) Macrotous. C) Macrology. D) Macrocosmic. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Macrotous. 4. Prefixes and suffixes are added to words to change their meaning A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 5. Which word means "causing a lot of damage or harm" ? A) Severe. B) Devastating. C) Brittle. D) Spheres. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Devastating. 6. Changing the syntactic category of the item to which it is attached A) Derivation. B) Category extension. C) Root creation. D) Clipped form. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Derivation. 7. In derivation, the affix can be only be a suffix A) True. B) False. C) None of the above. D) It depends. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 8. Which prefix means "Speak or Tell" ? A) Dict-. B) -ology. C) Re-. D) Un-. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Dict-. 9. Loudness A) Together, with. B) State of. C) Past tense. D) Without. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) State of. 10. Choose the bound morpheme: A) Tiger. B) At. C) And. D) Im-. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Im-. 11. What is the root for the word 'vivisection'? A) Ion. B) Viv. C) Sect. D) Section. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sect. 12. What does morphology do? A) It takes care of morphemes. B) It takes care of phonemes. C) Research about syntax. D) It isn't in the text. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) It takes care of morphemes. 13. What does the prefix sub-mean? A) Far. B) Under. C) Land; earth. D) God. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Under. 14. What is the meaning of homographs? A) Same sound, same spelling but different meanings. B) Different sound but same spelling. C) Different spelling, different meaning but same sound. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Different sound but same spelling. 15. The root word PORT means A) To write. B) To study. C) To carry. D) To hold. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To carry. 16. The morphology of English unlike that of other languages is: A) Simple. B) Difficult. C) The most complicated. D) No one would understand. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simple. 17. What is the meaning of the root word:struct A) To bend/bent. B) Look at or observe. C) To break. D) To build. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To bend/bent. 18. Find the verb in this sentence:Ms. D and Ms. Kat worked so hard on your test-review. A) Ms. D/ Ms. Kat. B) So hard. C) Worked. D) Your. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Worked. 19. What does the prefix DE mean? A) Down, off, away, completely. B) To break or burst. C) Not, opposite of. D) Before. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Down, off, away, completely. 20. What is the term for a morpheme that changes the tense of a verb? A) Derivational morpheme. B) Inflectional morpheme. C) Free morpheme. D) Root morpheme. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Inflectional morpheme. 21. Can stand on their own as independent words A) Allomorphs. B) Free Morphemes. C) Bound Morphemes. D) Inflectional Morphemes. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Free Morphemes. 22. Type of inflection indicates present participle / progressive 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: D) I am shouting angrily. 23. A derivational morpheme ..... A) Makes an old word from new ones. B) Makes a new word from old ones. C) Does not change the part of speech or the basic meaning of a word. D) Does not occur "inside" any inflectional affixes. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Makes a new word from old ones. 24. Which of the following would be considered a class changing derivational morpheme? A) Un-in undo. B) Un-in unhappy. C) -ify in solidify. D) -est in oldest. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) -ify in solidify. 25. What does the prefix tele-mean? A) Far. B) Breathe. C) Land; earth. D) See. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Far. ← 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