Morphemes

Definition Of Morpheme
A morpheme is a short segment of language that meets three criteria :

• It is a word or part of a word that has meaning

• It cannot be divided into smaller meaningful parts without violation of its meaning without meaningless remainders.

• It recars in differing verbal environments with a relatively stable meaning.

Free And Bound Morpheme
Morpheme are of two kinds, free and bound. A free morpheme is one that cannot be uttered alone with meaning. For instance, in replay to “what are you going to do now?” you might answer “eat”. This is a free morpheme .
A bound morpheme, unlike the free, cannot be uttered alone with meaning. It is always annexed to one or more morphemes to form a word.Here are a few more examples : preview, played, acivity, supervise, inter-, - vene.