Morphological structure of words
What Morphological structure of words means in English Language A-Level, as defined for AQA.
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The word-level part of grammar, studying how morphemes build words, such as a free base with a bound inflectional suffix or derivational affixes creating new lexemes.
The study of how words are built from free morphemes that can stand alone and bound morphemes that must attach to others.
Topics that use Morphological structure of words
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