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Analysing Morphemes
  • Lesson 7A

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Analysing morphemes
  • You can do this in 2 ways
  • By dividing it up with hyphens
  • e.g. truth-ful-ness
  • By using a tree diagram
  • truth - ful - ness

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A
N
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Dividing with hyphens
  • Divide into base form morphemes
  • truth one morpheme
  • truthful base form bound morpheme
  • truth-ful
  • truthfulness base form bound bound
  • truth-ful-ness

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Can you divide these words?
  • Colourful
  • Happiness
  • Unbelievable
  • Teacher
  • Monster
  • Rattlesnake

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Can you divide these words?
  • Colourful colour-ful
  • Happiness happi-ness
  • Unbelievable un-believ-able
  • Teacher teach-er
  • Monster monster
  • Rattlesnake rattle-snake

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Constructing tree diagrams (1)
  • Divide the word into its constuent morphemes e.g.
    greed-i-ness
  • Decide the root and its grammatical category
    greed noun (N)
  • Decide the grammatical category of all the new
    words created by the other morphemes
  • greedy adjective (A)
  • greediness noun (N)

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Constructing tree diagrams (2)
  • Write the divided word at the bottom of the page
  • greed-i-ness
  • Write the grammatical
  • category of the root
  • and join it to the word greed
  • Write the grammatical
  • category of all the
  • new words created by
  • the other morphemes greed-i greed-i-ness
  • and join them up

N
A
N
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Now write the word and connect up all the
categories. Can you label the boxes?
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Well done!
Greed gt Greedy gt Greediness
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Try this word - specification
  • Can you divide it up with hyphens?
  • specif-ic-ation
  • specif- specify root

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What are the grammatical categories ?
  • specif-ic-ation
  • specify Verb
  • specific Adjective
  • specification Noun
  • What will be the shape of the tree?

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Well done! Now label it
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Find the roots the following words
  • unwholesome
  • whole
  • rulership
  • rule
  • underdeveloped
  • develop
  • overachiever
  • achieve
  • operational
  • operate
  • indispensable
  • dispense

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Build the tree from the root
  • un-whole-some
  • whole

A
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Add the next word that is created
to the tree
  • whole some
  • this creates the new adjective wholesome
  • whole - some

A
A
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Add the next word that is created
to the tree
  • un wholesome
  • this creates the new adjective unwholesome
  • un - whole-some

A
A
A
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Draw tree diagrams for the following words
  • rul-er-ship
  • under-develop-ed
  • over-achiev-er
  • operat-ion-al
  • in-dispens-able

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Analysing compounds
  • Compound nouns can be a single word with two base
    forms
  • e.g. windmill wind mill
  • rattlesnake rattle snake
  • How do we analyse these ?

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Drawing a tree of a 1-word compound is easy
  • Windmill noun
  • Wind noun
  • Mill noun
  • wind-mill

N
N
N
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black bird black-bird
  • black bird blackbird
  • is a noun phrase is a compound noun
  • black bird black-bird

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NP
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N
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N
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Analysing 2-word compounds
  • Compound nouns can also be made up of two words
  • e.g. coffee table
  • In this case you have to decide which word is the
    head and which word is the modifier

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Where is the head in these compounds
  • coffee table
  • swimming pool
  • car park
  • dish washer
  • oven cleaner
  • table
  • pool
  • park
  • washer
  • cleaner

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dish washer
  • dish washer noun
  • washer noun
  • wash verb
  • -er bound morpheme
  • wash head
  • What shape is the tree?

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Notice the label of the head
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Analyse and draw a tree
  • Coffee table
  • Swimming pool
  • Car park
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