Un- as in unhappy.

Example of bound morpheme words. A bound morpheme cannot stand alone as an English word. The second kind of morphemes is the bound morphemes. Examples of Morpheme Types Morpheme Type Example Free Word friend cup chair.

Affixes are additions to a word. In the English language a morpheme is the smallest unit that is meaningful. Bound Morpheme By contrast to a free morpheme a bound morpheme is used with a free morpheme to construct a complete word as it cannot stand independently.

When two free morphemes combine like codebook it gives a compound word. They are used to change the meaning of a word or to alter some of its attribute. The run on well.

Will is must does. A bound morpheme only occurs as part of a word -s as in cats-ed as in crumbed. If it does make sense it is a word and a free morpheme.

A free morpheme can stand alone as its own word. This includes things like prefixes suffixes -s to mark plurals and in other languages can include tense markers within a word. Do all these words contain the morpheme car.

Examples of bound roots are -ceive and sci-. For example in The farmer wants to kill duckling the bound morphemes -er s and ling cannot stand on their own. There are eight inflectional morphemes organized by which part of speech they modify.