Beginner Warm-up (Simple)

1. Find the base/root word in each item:

             played
             teacher
             unhappy
             books
             

2. Identify whether each word is singular or plural:

             child
             children
             boy
             boys
             

3. Match the suffix to its common function:

   • -ed -> past tense
   • -er -> person/agent (one who does an action)
   • -ness -> state or quality

4. Pick one word from your language and write:

   • its root
   • one changed form
   • what changed (tense/gender/number/case/person)

Core Assignment

1. Choose a typical masculine noun, ending in 'A', from your language.
   Write down its various forms along with various features and their values associated with them.

2. English has a suffix -en whose use is illustrated in the following lists:

   List A	List B
   Red	Redden
   Mad	Madden
   Soft	Soften
   Wide	Widen
   Sharp	Sharpen

   In regard to these data, answer the following questions:

   a) What part of speech does the suffix -en attach to? That is, what is the part of speech of the words in List A?

   b) When the suffix -en is attached to a word, what part of speech is the resulting word? Give some specific morphological properties of one of the words in List B, in order to justify your answer.

3. Take one verb from your mother tongue, gloss it (i.e., give the English meaning), and conjugate it in all relevant tenses, aspects, and persons.

4. Refer to the following data and answer the question below:

   List 1: taller, shorter, higher, lower, smarter

   List 2: mower, teacher, sailor, caller, operator

   List 3: never, cover, finger, river

   Do the words ending with 'er'/'or' have some common features?

5. Identify root and suffix in the following words:

             kissed
             stronger
             goodness
             teacher
             achievement