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Anonymous Posted 18 years ago
Grammar

Morphology

I'm having a little trouble breaking these words down into their morphemes and identifying whether they are derivational or inflectional, and the class changes - I'm very confused!

Decriminalised
Detainee
Housebreaking
Illegality
Imprisonment
Murderesses
Punishable
Racketeer
Unlawfully
Villainous

If anyone could help, that would be great.
  

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Is this what you mean? Decriminalised: de (bound morpheme ) criminal (free morpheme ) ize (derivational morpheme ) d (inflectional morpheme )

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  • Decriminalised: de (bound morpheme ) criminal (free morpheme ) ize (derivational morpheme ) d (inflectional morpheme )
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Is this what you mean?
Decriminalised:
de (bound morpheme )
criminal (free morpheme )
ize (derivational morpheme )
d (inflectional morpheme )

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