I note an oddly metallic voice. I eventually spot a tall, gangly man with some sort of shaver-sized device in his hand. Each time he speaks, he holds the device to a hole in his throat. I assume that he has had his trachea or larynx removed for some medical reason. By early afternoon the man is the center of feverish discussion among the staff at the camp. The consensus was that the man's entire throat was actually a machine. Maloi, who had once worked at a hotel in Nairobi and was considered worldly, led a discussion.
1. Separate the words below into morphemes and identify each as being (1) a derivational morpheme, (2) an inflectional morpheme, or (3) a bound or free base. If you choose derivational morpheme, identify the word class created with the addition of the morpheme and provide another word that uses that morpheme with the same meaning. If you identify the morpheme as inflectional, provide its grammatical meaning. You must analyze the words in the context of the paragraph above.
oddly -- [odd] - free base
-----------[-ly] - derivational morpheme, adverb-making, "happily"
metallic------------eventually--------------shaver----------------speaks
feverish---------man's----------- ------------worldly-------------led
2. Look at the following prepositional phrases taken from the paragraph. Decide if each functions adverbially or adjectivally.
a. "with some sort of shaver-sized device in his hand"
b. "in his throat"
c. "for some medical reason"
d. "By early afternoon"
e. "of feverish discussion"
Now read the following paragraph to answer #3.
"That old man has no throat, so now it is just a machine. He must have been in a car accident, or someone chopped at his neck with a machete, and he had no throat left, so the white doctors put a machine there. When he needs to speak, he takes the other machine, and he puts it in to his throat, so that the throat machine will work. That is why he has the beard, to hide the machines there, so that his wife will not be upset to look at him. "
3. a. Identify a modal auxiliary.
b. Identify an auxiliary that is not a modal.
c. Identify a coordinating conjunction.
d. Identify a subordinating conjunction.
e. Identify a possessive functioning as a determiner.
f. Identify a demonstrative with a noun function.
g. Identify a demonstrative with a determiner function.
h. Define and illustrate a run-on sentence by modifying one of the sentences above.
ANSWERS:
1. [metal] - free base ---[-ic] derivational suffix, adjective-making, "toxic"
[event] - free base---[-al] derivational suffix, adjective-making, "natural"---[-ly] derivational suffix, adverb-making, "naturally"
[shave] free base---[-er] derivational suffix, noun-making, "actor"
[speak] free base ---[-s] inflectional suffix, verb present tense, "talks"
[fever] free base ---[-ish] derivational suffix, adjective-making, "girlish"
[man] free base---['s] inflectional suffix, possessive, "woman's"
[world] free base-----{-ly] derivational suffix, adverb-making, "heavenly"
[lead] free base----[-ed] inflectionalsuffix, past tense, "talked"
2. a. adjectival (modifies "man"), b. adjectival (modifies "hole"), c. adverbial (why?), d. adverbial (when?), e. adjectival (modifies "center")
3. a. must, will; b. have in "must have been"; c. so, and; d. when, so that; e. his in "his neck" or "his throat" or "his wife"; f. That in "That is why..."; g. that in "That old man"