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| A single morpheme that is not a complete word |
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| A morpheme that cannot stand alone as a word. Most affixes are bound (helping, react); some base morphemes are also mound (concise; legal) |
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| the morpheme that gives a word its primary lexical meaning: helping, reflect |
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| a morpheme added to the beginning or end of a word; typically affixes are bound |
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| affix attached to beginning of word |
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| affix attached to end of word |
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| list the eight inflectional affixes |
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| -s (plural),-s (possessive),-s (3rd person singular),-ed (past tense),-en (past participle),-ing (present participle),-er (comparative),-est (superlative) |
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| arbitrary affexis that change the class of the word |
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| list the four form classes |
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| noun, verb, adjectives, adverbs |
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| semantic features of nouns |
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| common/proper, singular/plural, countable/noncountable |
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| derivational suffixes of nouns |
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| derivational affixes of verbs |
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| derivational suffixes of adjectives |
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| -y,-ful,-ic,-ate,-ish,-ary,-ive,-able,-ous |
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| derivational suffixes of adverbs |
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| determiners, auxiliaries, qualifiers, prepositions, conjunctions, interrogatives, expletives, particles |
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| articles, possessive nounce, demonstrative pronouns, numbers, possessive pronouns, indefinite pronouns, expanded determiner |
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| forms of be, have, do; modals; quasi-modals; phrasal modals |
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| adjective/adverb signalers |
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| coordinating conjunctions |
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| and, but, or, nor, for, yet |
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| subordinating conjunctions |
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introduce dependent clauses
when, whenever, while, though, although, if, unless, because |
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introduce independent clauses
therefore, consequently, as a result, nevertheless, yet, at any rate, moreover, also, meanwhile |
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| either...or, not only...but also, neither...nor |
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introduce adjective caluses
relative pronouns: who, whose, whom, which, that
relative adverbs: where, when, why |
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