Morphemes that can stand alone and function as words are called Free morphemes.
Example of free morphemes. Words made up of one free morpheme and compound words ie. State Ocean Baby Book Ship etc. A base or root is a morpheme in a word that gives the word its principle meaning.
Keyboard greenhouse bloodshed smartphone. This famous quote has a total of fourteen morphemes. Might Had Did Can Could Shall etc.
But incase you want more explanation on what a free morpheme is scroll down Morpheme is the smallest meaningful unit of a language. We can add new lexical morphemes to the language rather easily so they are treated as an open class of words. Un- prefix that means not.
Dog as a word makes sense. Words made up of two free morphemes. The run on well.
The twelve free morphemes are. Other types of free morphemes are called functional morphemes. Free morphemes can stand alone with a specific meaning for example eat date weak.
Identify the morphemes in each word and list them in the correct column. Free Morphemes A morpheme that has individual meaning and can be formed independently is called a free morpheme. Admit Advise Run Eat Write etc.