Questions tagged [morphology]
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What is the -iv- part in the word interconnectivity?
I'm writing a term thesis (I don't really know, if that is the correct way to name it, since I'm not from an English-speaking country), where I need to analyse a literary text. In the analysis there ...
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Wordsworth and parts of speech
Stay near me - do not take thy flight!
A little longer stay in sight!
Much converse do I find in thee,
Historian of my infancy!
Float near me; do not yet .depart!
Dead times revive in thee:
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Bored or a bored person
a. He is bored.
b. He is a bored person.
Is it correct to use a noun with past participle when used an adjective? For example, The tired singer is not singing a new song. How to use past participle ...
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the stem and root of "dying"
oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com:
stem - (grammar) the main part of a word that stays the same when endings are added to it:
(1) ‘Writ’ is the stem of the forms ‘writes’, ‘writing’ and ‘written’.
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Use of two same words repeating immediately
Button, Button is the title of a short story by Richard Mathewson. The title has the same word two times. Is it the use epizeuxis to lay stress like Papa, Papa I want to go to picnic? If not, how will ...
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wake up, awaken and awake
He woke up to find others gone.
He awakened to find others gone.
He awoke to find others gone.
All of the sentences can be found grammatical in OED and they seem identical in meaning.
I am ...
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An interesting teacher VS an interested student [duplicate]
We know an adjective ending in either -ing or -ed can modify a noun. What is the difference between these two pairs?
An interesting teacher
An interested student
A heartbroken mother ( A ...
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from here to the hotel vs from the hotel to here
It is two miles from here to the hotel.
It is two miles from the hotel to here.
The first example is commonly seen with no problem, but the second one seems not right. CGEL says "here" is ...
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Is "a pair of words formed with prefixes that convey the same meaning" ambiguous?
I was asked to choose, between two options, the correct. The question:
A pair of words formed with prefixes that convey the same
meaning is
( x ) inside/intimate
( ✓ ) impossible/discourage
It's ...
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The word "Unlockable"
Unlockable(unlock-able) usually means something that can be unlocked.
Ex:
That door is unlockable.
However, I noticed that you can say the opposite... Unlockable(un-lockable). Something that can not ...
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Are there compound words whose meanings would be changed once there is a change in stress?
I have one true-or-false question.
The different stress used in a compound do not usually affect the meaning of the compound.
The example used in my book to illustrate why this statement is false is ...
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Why do some people use 'It's ain't' as in "It's ain't true" with "Is + ain't"?
I found that many people use the form of 'is ain't' on the Internet.
I don't know why they use "Is" + "Ain't" whereas it doesn't make any sense?
According to Google, there are ...
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Why " other" not " others"
I saw this sentence in the Cambridge Dictionary.
We'll find someone or other to help us.
Why does this sentence use " other" rather than " others" or " other people" ?
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A mathematics nazi is part of the mathematical inquisition?
I learned that a grammar nazi is someone who seems extremely authoritarian in compulsively correcting people's grammar mistakes and other errors while practicing languages. And today I learned another ...
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What's the adjective of the word "use"
If I want to say "popular" about the cars.
Cars were more (popular) than now days
In the sense that they were used a lot, what's the adjective I should use?
Not popular, but... (adjective ...
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meaning of "divvy up"
A tutorial coins a word "divvy"
"div" is an HTML tag, could simply be considered a section in a document.
I guess the morpheme used in the coining word might have some common ...
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What is 'round in "Gather ’round and listen close"?
In page 11 of this book: Algorithms by DPV a line confused me:
Gather ’round and listen close.
I thought it means to come close and listen carefully, but I get stuck by the 'round form. Does it ...
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The past tense of eat: eat or ate
It seems that the past tense of eat is both eat and ate. (OED.)
I think ate is more prevalent. Is eat used in a certain region?
eat
▪ I. eat, v.
(iːt)
pa. tense ate, eat (eɪt, ɛt, iːt). ...
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Why does something "belong to someone" and not "belong someone"?
The confusing language lesson bewildered John.
Detective Frey believed the suspect's story.
You're trying to befriend someone who doesn't trust you.
If the examples above are correct, this one ...
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Does the morpheme “ative”, used as a suffix, transform the word into adjectives or nouns?
preservative, for instance, can be either used as a noun or an adjective.
This kind of food doesn’t contain any kind of preservatives
the preservative effect of freezing is good to keep most ...
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Are the suffixes -al and -ar the same adjective suffixes? if not why? [closed]
This picture is about specific examples of these two suffixes.
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What do native speakers think of when they are speaking? [closed]
I know this question might seem somehow ridiculous to you or silly. You may ask me why don't answer these questions by thinking of what you do in your native language. The thing is that I didn't want ...
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rule of adding suffix -ing [duplicate]
Today I went through a link in Oxford stating
https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/spelling/verb-tenses-adding-ed-and-ing
If the verb has only one syllable and ends with a single vowel plus a ...
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an average of - what is it - a noun or a preposition?
please help me to understand using "an average of" in this sentence:
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Husbands help in the house more than they did in the past, but in the UK for example, men do an average of just six hours a ...
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Why are nice picture/gif/video about foo called "foo-porn"?
I was browsing Reddit and I discovered many subreddits named after foo-porn, to name just a few:
/r/EarthPorn
/r/FoodPorn
/r/Map_Porn
/r/ruralporn
/r/shockwaveporn
/r/SkyPorn
/r/unixporn
It seems ...
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Positive, comparative, superlative and... is there a fourth?
I'm wondering whether English has something beyond its superlative degree. In my language we call that "túlzófok", it literally translates to "exaggerative degree."
I'm wondering because I often hear ...
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Is "I bought it because it costed ..." an idiomatic and grammatical phrase?
I thought the phrase was common. Example sentence:
Naomi bought the coffee because it costed ¥499, and she was obsessed
with prime numbers.
However, Google only yields 4 results. This makes me ...
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Why doesn't "aversion" correspond to "aver"?
I thought that the noun "aversion" was derived from the verb "aver". However, it seems they have different meanings.
My question is, how can an English learner know such nouns?
I don't think there ...
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Is the word 'restrictionable' correct?
How do you form -able words? Which root do you have to attach the suffix to in order to make the new word?
For example, is the word 'restrictionable' correct?
restriction + -able ⇒ 'that may or ...
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The 's' or 'es' word
Where do exactly put the 's' or 'es' word on the sentences? And why using that word on sentence? And when the right time to add the 's' or 'es' word?
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Looking for the name of this type of grammatical term "im-", "mis-"
We can break some words in two or three parts. Example:
Impossible = Im + possible
Misconception = Miss + conception
What does these type of grammatical term called?
PS:I'm looking for this, because ...
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How can I differentiate between the meaning in the following words
How can I difference between the meaning in the following words?
- Audience it's noun
- Audible it's adjective
- Audition it's also noun
- Auditory it's also adjective
So, my question is we have ...
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What is the difference between the -able that attaches to nouns and the -able that attaches to verbs?
Ie: marriageable vs acceptable
honourable vs agreeable
Are there any differences in the way this suffix functions?
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Do you perceive nouns ending with -a as somewhat feminine? [closed]
In Russian, most nouns ending with -a are considered feminine and decline accordingly (with -a considered an ending). But English has no declensions and no -a ending. So I wonder whether you perceive ...
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Why does Register become Registration (no e)?
Why does the English word Register become Registration, with the second 'e' being removed?
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What word has the root "vale" in it?
This really seems to be a strange question, but I just came cross a word valediction, I looked it up and found out that vale means "farewell". Even though I'm not that keen into etymology, this word ...
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If "dis" makes antonym of a root word, then why doesn't "creet" have a meaning where discreet="dis"+creet?
In a dictionary, I found the word "discreet" which means: not likely to be seen or noticed by many people.
I think maybe the word discreet is formed by : "dis"+creet.
If it is so then what is the ...
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