Question

Divide the following words into their constituent morphemes: governed, tactful, happily, accountable, loudly,

Answer 1

According to Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary Morpheme is the smallest unit of meaning that a word can be divided into; for example ‘Like ‘has one morpheme.  ‘Un-like-ly’ contains three.

So the given words can be divided into their morphemes as shown below:

WORD                                                         MORPHEMES

governed                                                           govern-ed

tactful                                                                  tact-ful

happily                                                                happy-ily

accountable                                                      account-able

loudly                                                                  loud-ly