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can stand with another word because it cannot stand alone which is called bound morpheme.
2.2.2.1.1. Lexical Morpheme
Morphemes can be lexical or grammatical. Lexical morphemes are the meaty part of a word that has the clear meaning. Because they have their own
meaning, they can stand by themselves. Grammatical morphemes have a job rather than a meaning. It is difficult to say what they mean but easier to say what
they do. Happy becomes happily here the extra morpheme makes the word an adverb
Dog becomes dogs here the extra morpheme makes the word plural Child becomes children here the extra morpheme makes the word plural too
Wait becomes WAIT-FOR-AGES here the extra morpheme adds the idea of “a long time” to the action.
What we have described as free morphemes fall into two categories. The first category is that set of ordinary nouns, adjectives and verbs that we think of as
the words that carry the content of the messages we convey. These free morphemes are called lexical morphemes and some examples are: girl, man,
house, tiger, sad, long, yellow, sincere, open, look, follow, break. We can add new lexical morphemes to the language rather easily, so they are treated as an open
class of words.
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2.2.2.1.2. Functional morpheme
Other types of free morphemes are called functional morphemes. Examples are and, but, when, because, on, near, above, in, the, that, it, them. This
set consists largely of the functional words in the language such as conjunctions, prepositions, articles and pronouns. Because we almost never add new functional
morphemes to the language, they are described as a closed class of words.
A functional morpheme as opposed to a content morpheme is a morpheme which simply modifies the meaning of the word, rather than supplying
the root meaning of the word. That is to say that it functions, but does not mean in and of itself.
2.2.2.2. Bound Morpheme
