MTTC English (002) Practice Test

Morphology studies how words are built from a base or root and how affixes attach to that base to form new words or grammatical forms. This directly describes the grammatical structure of words derived from stems or roots, focusing on the internal makeup of words rather than their meaning, sounds, or sentence arrangement. For example, from the root "write," you can derive "writer," "writing," and "rewrite," showing how different forms arise from a common stem. By contrast, semantics concerns meaning, phonology concerns sound, and syntax concerns how words combine in sentences.