Question

A morpheme is the......................

• A. smallest unit of sentence that cannot be divided further.
• B. smallest unit of sentence that can be divided further.
• C. smallest unit of meaning that can be divided further.
• D. the smallest unit of meaning that cannot be divided further.

Answer 1

Answer:

D. the smallest unit of meaning that cannot be divided further.

A morpheme is the smallest unit of meaning that cannot be divided further. It is the basic building block of words and can be a whole word (like "book") or a part of a word (like "un-" in "undo" or "-ed" in "walked").