Question

What is a free morpheme?

• A. The smallest sound unit
• B. A morpheme that cannot stand alone
• C. A morpheme that can stand on its own
• D. It is a kind of affixation

Answer 1

Answer:

C. A morpheme that can stand on its own

• A free morpheme is a morpheme that can stand alone as a word with meaning.

• It does not need to be attached to any other morpheme to function as a word.

👉 Examples:

• book

• run

• happy

These are all free morphemes because they can appear independently.