Question

Identify the allomorph of the past tense morpheme (– ed ) in the word – 'discussed'.

Answer 1

hey!

Your answer is:-

DISCUSS

cheers!

Answer 2

In the concept of Linguistics ( a branch of study that deals with language), 'morpheme' is the fundamental unit of any language, that will have a meaning sometimes on standing alone or combined with other words.

Allomorph is a different version of a morpheme. It varies in pronunciation but ussually has identical meaning.

Explanation:

In the given word 'discussed', there are two morphemes such as "discuss" and "ed".

Here, "ed" is the past tense bound morpheme.  It has the pronunciation of "d".

So, the allomorph of "-ed" is "d".

Few other examples:

"ed" in the word "moved" has the "d" sound.

"ed" in the word "seated" has the "id" sound.