ABSTRACT
When we look at words that have some internal structure, we may decide that the elements they consist of are not all equal: that some are more central than others. In sending, for instance, we see the structure send-ing and conclude that the free morpheme send has had the bound morpheme -ing attached after it, and not vice versa. In the case of unjust, we conclude something similar, but with the free and bound morphemes in the opposite order. Un-has been added to just, and placed in front of it. The key element to which others are added is called the ROOT of the word. Root
EXERCISES
4.1 Can you identify the roots of the following words?
