Year 7 Reading: Morphology Quiz
Instructions:
Please read each question carefully and select the best answer. For questions that do not provide answer options, write your response in the space provided.
Questions:
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What does the term "morphology" refer to in language?
- a) The study of sentence structure
- b) The study of word formation and structure
- c) The study of phonetics
- d) The study of meaning
- e) The study of written texts
- f) The study of speech sounds
- g) The study of linguistic patterns
- h) The study of textual analysis
- i) The study of language evolution
- j) The study of language acquisition
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Which of the following is an example of a root word?
- a) Unhappiness
- b) Quickly
- c) Happy
- d) Misinterpret
- e) Manager
- f) Unpredictable
- g) Beautiful
- h) Reread
- i) Disagree
- j) Independent
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Identify the prefix in the word "disapprove."
- a) Approve
- b) Dis
- c) Pro
- d) A
- e) Disap
- f) Prove
- g) Ap
- h) Appro
- i) Disapp
- j) Rove
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What is the suffix in the word "happiness"?
- a) Happ
- b) Y
- c) S
- d) Ness
- e) Ap
- f) Pen
- g) H
- h) Ines
- i) An
- j) Nessy
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Which sentence contains an example of a compound word?
- a) The cat and the dog played together.
- b) The sunlight warmed the room.
- c) Basketball is my favorite sport.
- d) We walked to the bookstore.
- e) I felt a burst of happiness.
- f) She is a wonderful teacher.
- g) He made a sandwich.
- h) The flowers bloomed beautifully.
- i) She loves to daydream.
- j) The homework was difficult.
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What type of morpheme is the "s" in "cats"?
- a) Root
- b) Free
- c) Derivational
- d) Affix
- e) Bound
- f) Compound
- g) Prefix
- h) Suffix
- i) Inflectional
- j) Linguistic
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Write a sentence using the word "unbelievable."
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Which of the following words is the result of adding a suffix to a root word?
- a) Unkind
- b) Unbelievable
- c) Kindness
- d) Kind
- e) Kindred
- f) Kinda
- g) Kindest
- h) Kindly
- i) Kindhearted
- j) Kindling
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How many morphemes are in the word "reconstruction"?
- a) 1
- b) 2
- c) 3
- d) 4
- e) 5
- f) 6
- g) 7
- h) 8
- i) 9
- j) 10
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What does the prefix "pre-" mean?
- a) After
- b) Before
- c) During
- d) Not
- e) Out of
- f) Within
- g) Together
- h) Against
- i) Same
- j) Different
Good luck!