A Stem is a root with some modifications to it.

Example of a morpheme root. A base or root is a morpheme in a word that gives the word its principle meaning. An example of a bound base morpheme is -sent in the word dissent. Adding a derivational morpheme often changes the grammatical category or part of speech of the root word to which it is added.

Example 2 with a bound non root inflectional morpheme s -He plays tennis everyday This morpheme is showing us several grammatical categories like case tense etc. Perish is an example of a base morpheme as it gives the word its essential meaning -able is an example of a suffix or a morpheme that follows a base morpheme. A Root is the core of a word.

What is an example of a morpheme. An analysis of the. Steam Base and Root Root Root is the irreducible core of a word with absolutely nothing else attached to it.

An example of a free base morpheme is woman in the word womanly. Examples of morphemes would be the parts un- break and -able in the word unbreakable. Roots are just the remnants after all affixes have been removed.

Unbreakable is composed of three morphemes. If the d is removed it changes to kin which has a different meaning. Affixes are additions to a word.

Every word is composed of one or more morphemes. A morpheme is the smallest linguistic. They are called bound root morphemes or bound bases as distinct from free root morphemes.