Morphology terminology test

Matching exercise

Drag and drop the items on the left to match the items on the right.
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how the form of a verb changes in a language
the root of a word which cannot stand alone
an affix which adds meaning rather than changing meaning or word class
a morpheme which cannot stand alone as a word
how the form of nouns and adjectives etc. changes in a language
the central morpheme which determines the meaning of any derived word
fusing two morphemes to make a third meaning
a morpheme which changes word class
joining two free morphemes to make a third meaning
a morpheme which changes the grammatical form of a word
compounding
a derivational morpheme
conjugate
an inflectional morpheme
bound base
combining form
bound morpheme
blending
decline
root