Divide the following words into their constituent morphemes :
(i) gracefully
(ii) successful
(iii) multinational
(iv) excitement
(v) recently
Answers
The smallest unit of semantic or grammatical meaning, including words, bases, affixes, and inflections is referred as morpheme.
A suffix is a morpheme or words added at the end of the word to form a new word or change the meaning of the word.
Therefore, when the following words are divided into their constituent morphemes it would be written as:
1. gracefully - grace-fully
2. successful - success- ful
3. multinational - multi- national
4. excitement - excite- ment
5. recently- recent- ly
Morpheme is the smallest indivisible unit of a word, that has a meaning on its own and it cannot be divided further.
Bigger words have more number of morphenes whereas smaller words have lesser number of morphemes.
So the words which are given in the question can be divided into their morphemes as follows:
(i) gracefully: grace-ful-ly
(ii) successful: success-ful
(iii) multinational: multi-nation-al
(iv) excitement: excite-ment
(v) recently: recent-ly