Sample Morpheme Walls

Wall with Basic Morphemes

Word + Word = Compound Word house sun light dog time where houseboat sunlight moonlight lapdog sometime somewhere townhouse sunset lighthouse dogcatcher timekeeper nowhere housemate sunrise flashlight dogsled timepiece anywhere doghouse sunglasses lightweight watchdog lifetime whereabouts

Word + Word – Letter(s) + Apostrophe = Contraction -n’t -‘re -‘s -‘ve -‘ll -‘d (not) (are) (is or has) (have) (will) (would or had)

isn’t you’re it's I’ve I’ll I’d haven’t they’re that’s you’ve you’ll you’d won’t we’re he’s they’ve she’ll he’d shouldn’t who’re what’s would’ve we’ll they’d

Inflectional Endings -s -es -ed -ing -er -est (plural) (plural) (past tense) (present tense) (more) (most)

bags foxes wanted sending greater greatest trees benches added running hotter hottest friends bushes walked making riper ripest choices buses yelled flying sunnier sunniest

Prefixes un- re- pre- dis- over- mis- (not) (again) (before) (not, opposite of) (too much) (wrongly) unhappy redo preview dislike overheat mistake unsure replay preheat disagree overeat misunderstand unfair remake prefix dishonest overdo misread unable reopen preset disappear overwork misbehave

Suffixes -ful -less -ly -er -able -ness (adj., full of) (adj., (adv., how an (noun, one who (adj., capable (noun, quality) without) action is done) does something) of) hopeful hopeless quickly teacher teachable kindness fearful fearless sadly worker readable fairness effortful effortless suddenly runner agreeable sadness successful homeless perfectly faker usable happiness

Wall with More Complex Morphemes

Prefixes

ex- in-/im-/il-/ir- trans- post- anti- micro- (out of, from) (not) (across) (after) (opposite) (small) export inaccurate transport postseason antifreeze microscope expansion impossible transform preposterous antonym microbe exclusion illegal transfer posterior antidote microwave exceed irregular transgress posterity antisocial microorganism

Noun Suffixes

-ion -ity -ment -ure -or -ism action activity agreement creature creator organism decision humanity payment pleasure decorator optimism permission civility postponement fissure professor communism indication community engagement moisture legislator altruism

Adjective Suffixes

-ive -y -ible -ous -al -ent

protective sunny incredible delicious partial current excessive moody invincible previous natural sufficient decisive filthy defensible extraneous facial prevalent inventive juicy edible luminous essential innocent

Latin Roots struct rupt flect/flex vis tract fin (build) (break or burst) (bend) (see) (drag, pull) (end) construct disrupt flexible visual protractor finish instructor interrupt reflection envision attract definition structure eruption inflection invisible extract infinite destruction corruption reflexes revise contract finalize

Greek Combining Forms graph/gram bio meter/metr scope phon nym/onym/onom (write) (life) (measure) (to see) (sound, voice) (name) geography biology metric telescope symphony synonym autograph symbiotic thermometer microscopic telephone homonym graphic amphibious symmetry periscope phonograph acronym demographic biopsy decimeter gyroscope microphone anonymous