This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Grammar > Advanced > Morphology – Quiz 47 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Morphology Quiz 47 (25 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which suffix means 'study of'? A) -ology. B) -er. C) -ness. D) -ful. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) -ology. 2. Which suffix denotes how an action is? A) -ed. B) -s. C) -ing. D) -ly. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) -ly. 3. Which of the following words undergo inflection? A) Closure. B) Unlucky. C) Ensure. D) Active. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Unlucky. 4. "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. 5. Non-derivation A) Employee. B) Shoeless. C) Reread. D) Examining. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Examining. 6. 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. 7. 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. 8. Which of the following is NOT an adjective? A) Shell. B) Scary. C) Yellow. D) Old. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Shell. 9. Siliqua fruit occurs in A) Hibiscus rosa-sinensis. B) Solanum nigrum. C) Brassica campestris. D) Althaea rosea. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Brassica campestris. 10. 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. 11. 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. 12. 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. 13. 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. 14. Monocarpellary ovary diadelphous androceium and marginal placentation occurs in A) Brassicaceae. B) Asteraceae. C) Liliaceae. D) Fabaceae. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Fabaceae. 15. 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. 16. 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. 17. Non- A) Not. B) Seven. C) All. D) Because. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Not. 18. 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. 19. Inter- A) Between. B) Person who does. C) Outside. D) Under. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Between. 20. 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. 21. What is the meaning of the root word:flect A) To bend/bent. B) Look at or observe. C) To break. D) To build. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To bend/bent. 22. Which statement is THE MOST CORRECT? A) Homonyms can belong to the same morpheme. B) Allomorphs of different morphemes never sound alike. C) Both of them are correct. D) Neither of them is correct. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Neither of them is correct. 23. Roots developed from parts of the plant other than the radicle will be called A) Adventitious Roots. B) Tap root. C) Fibrous Roor. D) False Roots. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Adventitious Roots. 24. What is an example of an inflectional morpheme? A) -er to form a comparative adjective. B) -ly to form an adverb from an adjective. C) -ize to form a verb from a noun. D) -ic to form an adjective. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) -er to form a comparative adjective. 25. Suffixes go at the ..... of a word: A) End. B) Start. C) Middle point. D) Before. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) End. ← 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