Morphemes

What are morphemes????

Morphemes  are  the  smallest meaningful unit of grammar with meaning and cannot be broken down into smaller units. Because morphemes make up all words in the English language, learning morphemes unlocks the structure and meaning within words. This, in turn, aids in the learning process.

 Morphemes are categorized into two namely:

A. Free morphemes

These are words with a complete meaning, they can stand alone as an independent word in a sentence

BELOW THERE'S A LIST OF FREE MORPHEME EXAMPLES 

B.Bound morphemes 

These are lexical items incorporated into a word as a dependent part.They cannot stand alone but must be connected to another morpheme. Bound morphemes operate in the connection processes by the derivation, infection and compounding.

BELOW THER'S A LIST OF BOUND MORPHEMES EXAMPLES

How to identify a morpheme

You can identify morphemes by seeing if the word or letters in question meet the following criteria:

• Morphemes must have meaning. E.g. the word 'cat' represents and small furry animal. The suffix'-s' you might find at the end of the word 'cat' represents plurality.

• Morphemes cannot be divided into smaller parts without losing or changing their meaning. E.g. dividing the word 'cat' into 'ca' leaves us with a meaningless set of letters. The word 'at' is a morpheme in its own right.

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