| HINT | % Correct | |
|---|---|---|
| how a verb changes to show a different person, tense, number or mood (I, you sg, he/she/it) | Conjugation | 80%
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| The inflection of nouns, pronouns, adjectives, to indicate number (at least singular and plural), case (nominative or subjective, genitive or possessive, etc.), and gender. (-s) | Declension | 35%
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| The use of taking two morphemes to make a new word ie airport or sellout | Compounding | 31%
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| The meaning of words | Semantics | 24%
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| Building blocks of words | Morphemes | 21%
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| Kick the bucket | Idiom | 17%
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| green/greener (grammatical variant) | Inflection | 16%
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| What a sentence is about | Subject | 16%
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| Tortilla, Cliche | Loanwords | 13%
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| Easy peasy | Reduplication | 7%
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| Set of sounds that represent the same thign | Phoneme | 6%
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| What you say about the subject | Predicate | 6%
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| Relisations of the same morpheme | Allomorphs | 5%
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| Creates a new word | Derivation | 5%
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| Editor to edit | Back formation | 3%
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| /s/ is used in many places to indicate plural whereas /en/ is not so frequent | Productivity | 3%
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| high morpheme:word | Synthetic | 3%
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| Low morpheme:word | Analytic | 2%
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| The creation of a new word form an already used word in a differnt word form ie Down ADV > Down V | Conversion | 2%
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| Expressed via a preposition | Indirect object | 2%
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| Mouse to mice | Abault | 1%
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| Brunch and sci fi | Blends | 1%
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| Clark Kent and Superman (th) and (t) | Complementary | 1%
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| High exponent:mopoheme eg 'were' is 3 components(To Be, Past tense, Pl) | Fusional | 1%
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| Needs more words after the verb | Transitive verb | 1%
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| Wisdom | Abstract singular noun | 0%
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| Low exponent:morpheme | Agglutantive | 0%
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| Consonant clusters | Alphabetic Principle | 0%
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| MODAL - To be, DO - support, BE - passive (was sung), progressive (is singing), HAVE - perfect (has sung) | Auxillary Verbs | 0%
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| Combine two characters, one to suggest meaning and one to suggest sound | Chinese way | 0%
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| It- the form to be - X - that/who - Y | Cleft sentences | 0%
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| Can be entirely replaced | Consituent | 0%
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| Who/What did X? | Consituent Test | 0%
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| Putting constituent in first position to change emphasis | Dislocation | 0%
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| Swearword | Endocentric | 0%
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| Derived from a name | Eponyms | 0%
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| Downmarket | Exocentric | 0%
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| Japanese (r) (l) | Free variation | 0%
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| Meaning you can't predict and must be learned | Lexical item | 0%
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| Traffic | Mass noun | 0%
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| Test to see if two things are in parallel distribution | Minimal Pair Test | 0%
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| Tooth - teeth | Mutated plural | 0%
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| Forms which have common sematic distinctiveness and an identical phonemic form in all their occurances constitute a single morpheme | Nida's Principle | 0%
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| Third, final, left | Non-scalar adjectives | 0%
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| Just a word | Orthographic word | 0%
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| Trousers or scissors | Pairs | 0%
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| Pig and Big | Parallel | 0%
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| The symbols that are easy to represent iconically | Rebus Principle | 0%
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| Clothes, odds | Sets | 0%
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| Sheep, Chinese, Series | Zero plurals | 0%
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