Example sentences for: morphemes

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

  • On the contrary, their attention to meaning must be acute, even if purists pale at the inelegance of the many neologisms, because bound and gagged morphemes succeed in communicating with marvelous ease and utility.

  • 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.

  • (Hierarchy, for instance, is the building of large structures out of small ones, be they nautical charts out of soundings or sentences out of morphemes.)

  • The morphemes are rather familiar, but overall we cannot place them: harquisade (a variety of tree with glass foliage), marathaxus (a scale from the body of the demon Sadlark).

  • Here is a copy of Martyn Ecott's little story, with the Franglais expressions left in italics but with the English morphemes originally borrowed from French underlined in the mainly English text.


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