Importance Of Morphology In Morphology

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Register to read the introduction… English teachers should have better vocabulary knowledge so that it will help us to deliver our teaching effectively. Once we have a wide vocabulary list especially the bombastic words with reference to the thesaurus and dictionary, therefore, it will make us more confident in the classroom teaching. In morphology, morpheme can be combined to other morphemes to form a new word. Morpheme refers to the smallest unit grammatical unit in a language. For example, the word cats have two morphemes. Cat is a morpheme and s is also a morpheme. The word cat is a singular form meaning one cat whereas the word cats are a plural form representing many cats. Thus, two different words are formed. Word formation rules in morphology help us to discover new words. Compounding process is one of other examples of word formation rules. Compounding is a word formation process that involves combining two free morphemes to form a new word. For example, a free morpheme word butter is combined with another free morpheme cup will form a new single word buttercup. So, a new word formed will be our new vocabulary. Vocabulary is very …show more content…
As a future English teacher, firstly we have to make sure that we are able to construct sentences with correct grammatical and sentence structures. As we study morphology, we can gain a lot of new vocabulary and improve our grammar to a higher level. Morphology enables us to get to know and learn more about the importance of prefixes and suffixes in creating a new word. Prefixes and suffixes are two major components of a morpheme. They can also be included as a bound morpheme. A bound morpheme is a unit of meaning which can only exist alongside a free morpheme such as child, butter and flower. They cannot stand alone by itself as an independent word but must be attached to another free

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