Example sentences for: morphemes

How can you use “morphemes” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • It is the first citation in the OED Supplement , Volume 4 (1986), which defines the word as a “TV program lasting several hours, especially to solicit contributions,” coined by analogy from marathon . What had apparently happened was that a false analysis had divided the Olympic event into two specious morphemes, as if mar(a) meant `running' and -(a)thon meant `long' as a suffix.

  • In this calculatedly selective text I count only a few more Franglais words or morphemes, forty-four, than English morphemes originally, in most cases centuries ago, borrowed from French, forty by my count.

  • A second class of bound and gagged morphemes comprises innovations based upon a portion of a common term that is either not a morpheme or an incorrect form of a morpheme used in a new sense.

  • For about the last century, American English has been openly kidnapping bits of words and putting them to work as new bound morphemes without the least regard for their original meanings--or, rather, lack of meanings.

  • Like the puns above, most word forms with newly created morphemes are incidental and almost always dismissible, but not functionless.


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