A word of one morphemes like blaze, has of course just one unitary part. A word of two morphemes like cheerful is obviously composed of two parts with the dision between them. : cheer]ful But a word of three or more morphemes is not made up of string of individual parts. It is built with a hierarcy of twosomes. As an illustration let us examine the formation of gentlemanly, a word of three morphemes. We might say that man and -ly were combined to form manly and that gentle and manly were then put together to produce the form gentlemanly but the total meaning of gentlemanly does not seem to be composed of the meanings of its two parts gentle and manly, so we reject this possibility. Lets try again. This time we will say that gentle and man were put together to give gentleman, belonging to a high social station, we see that the meaning of gentleman is a composite of those of its two constituent, now we add –ly, meaning like and get gentlemanly like a gentleman. This manner of froming gentlemanly seems to make sense.
Here the recommendation on IC division that will assist you in the exercise to follow :
· If a word ends in an inflectional suffix, the first cut is between this suffix and the rest of the word. So : Pre- conveiv- ed
· One of the IC’s should be if possible a free form. A free form is one that can be uttered alone with meaning ex: enlarge, dependent, supportable. Examples: en- large -ment
· The meanings of the IC’s should be related to the meaning of the word. It would be wrong to cut restrain like this: rest- rain
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