3. MORPHOLOGY

🎯Learning Objectives:

Upon successful completion of this chapter, you should be able to

1. Identify words in sentences

2. Identify types of English words (simple, compound, complex, & compound-complex)

3. Break down compound, complex, and compound-complex words into morphemes (free vs. bound, derivational vs. inflectional)

4. Improve word choices in writing and speech according to rhetorical context (i.e., audience, purpose, and formality)

🔑Key Concepts:

1. Words

   • • simple

     • compound

     • complex

     • compound-complex words

2. Morphemes

   • • free vs. bound morphemes

     • inflectional vs. derivational morphemes (prefix, suffix, infix)

     • root, base, stem

3. Ways in word formation

   • • compounding

     • affixation

     • other word- formation methods (e.g., blending, clipping, coinage, borrowing, acronym, etc.)