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Vocabulary through Morphemes

Vocabulary through Morphemes. What is a morpheme?. morpheme : a combination of sounds that have a meaning. A morpheme does not necessarily have to be a word. Every morpheme is either a base or an affix. . Morphemes that act like bases. Base is a morpheme that gives a word its meaning. .

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Vocabulary through Morphemes

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  1. Vocabulary through Morphemes

  2. What is a morpheme? • morpheme: a combination of sounds that have a meaning. A morpheme does not necessarily have to be a word. • Every morpheme is either a base or an affix.

  3. Morphemes that act like bases. • Base is a morpheme that gives a word its meaning.

  4. Morphemes that act like affixes. • a morpheme that comes at the beginning (prefix) or the ending (suffix) of a base morpheme.

  5. Morphemes that act like affixes • Prefix is an affix that comes before a base morpheme. The in in the word inspect is a prefix. • Suffix is an affix that comes after a base morpheme. The s in cats is a suffix

  6. Vocab Check up 1 • So let me get this straight. We’re all EMPEROR penguins? ALL OF US! That makes no sense.

  7. Vocab check up 2

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