2. Compound words
Complete the centre column of
the table to make two compound
words.
To make it easier, each answer
is a three letter part of the
body.
4. Blend Words
These are two words blended into one:
Can you un-blend these?
3. electrocute
4. fortnight
5. intercom
6. motel
7. Muppet
8. paratroops
9. smog
10. workaholic
5. Blend Words
Answers:
2. electric + execute
3. fourteen + nights
4. internal + communication
5. motor + hotel
6. marionette + puppet
7. parachute + troops
8. smoke + fog
9. work + alcoholic
6. Morphology
The study of the structure of words
Is a word the smallest unit of meaning?
The plogs glorped bliply
Q1: How many plogs were there: one, or more than
one?
Q2: What were they doing?
Q3: Were they doing it now or in the past?
7. Morphemes
Smaller units of meaning are called morphemes, eg.
ed, s, ly.
one
dog, elephant, establish, child
morpheme
two
dog s, elephant ine, establish ment, child ish
morphemes
three
dis establish ment, child ish ness
morphemes
Just for fun, how many morphemes in:
Anti dis establish ment arian ism ?
8. Split these into individual morphemes, then
identify each morpheme as one of these:
- Independent (I) – can stand on its own
- Dependent (D) – must be attached to another
morpheme
and the dependent ones as:
- Grammatical (G) – defines the word’s role in the
sentence or gives grammatical information
- Creative (C) – forms a new word
pigs, barked, unlikely, motherhood, salty,
cherry, taller, hammer, displease, hardship,
superheroes, player, payee, coffee
9. Prefixes and Suffixes
Many morphemes are affixes –
prefixes which go at the start of the
word or suffixes which go at the
end.
How many prefixes and suffixes can
you list?
12. Conversion – when affixes change the
word class
These affixes change a word’s word
class, eg from verb to adjective.
Can you identify which do what?
able, ible, ing, ive, pre,
ify, ally, ly, sion, tion,
less, ful, ism
13. Some examples:
able: enjoy to enjoyable – verb to adjective
ible: digest to digestible – verb to adjective
ing: shine to shining – verb to verb/adjective
ive: response to responsive – noun to adjective
pre: operation to pre-operation – noun to adjective
ify: valid to validify - adjective to verb
ally: radical to radically – adjective to adverb
ly: neat to neatly – adjective to adverb
sion: averse to aversion – adjective to noun
tion: abbreviate to abbreviation – verb to noun
less: fault to faultless – noun to adjective
ful: beauty to beautiful – noun to adjective
ism: athletic to athleticism – adjective to noun
14. Lexical relationships - remember these?
Homophone
Homonym
Homograph
Synonym
Antonym
homo- same
ant- opposite
syn- together
-phone sound
-nym name
-graph written
15. Lexical relationships - remember these?
Homophone – there/their/they’re
r
Homonym – punch/punch t he
a no o r
of e f
Homograph – bow/bow T hink mpl
exa each
Synonym – seat/chair
Antonym – hot/cold
homo- same
ant- opposite
syn- together
-phone sound
-nym name
-graph written