Basic English Grammar with Exercises

Chapter 1 - Grammatical Foundations: Words

Exercise 7

Mark the morphological boundaries and state whether the underlined morphemes are

inflectional or derivational in the following words.

(1) a easier

b grandfathers

c unhappiest

d failed

e unemployment

f wants

g eatable

h quickly

Exercise 8

Identify the part of speech of each word in the sentences below.

(1) a John likes eating nice food.

b The workers must have built the bridge near Boston.

c A friend of mine gave a book to John’s brother.

Exercise 9

The following word forms can have more than one grammatical category. State which

these categories are and create sentences in order to show their different distribution.

(1) a leaves

b lead

c costs

d fly

e rings

f tears

g water

h rules

i present

j mine

k left

l long

m fast