{"id":"study-morpheme-split-practice","audience":"college","category":"studying","technique":"examples","track":"study","title":"Practice splitting words into morphemes","free":false,"task":"Your Intro Linguistics quiz asks you to break words into morphemes. Get exactly 5 numbered practice words from your professor's list, then all answers together under an 'Answers' line in the form 'un + happy + ness', plain text. Use only words from the list and follow her rule about spelling changes.","materialLabel":"Your linguistics notes (attached to your prompt automatically)","material":"LING 1010 - Intro to Linguistics - Week 4: Morphology (Prof. Adebayo)\n\nMORPHEME = smallest unit of meaning.\n- Free morpheme: can stand alone (happy, read, kind)\n- Bound morpheme: must attach (un-, re-, -ness, -ful, -s, -ed)\n\nFORMAT for the quiz: split with \" + \", like: unhappiness -> un + happy + ness\n\nSPELLING RULE (Prof. Adebayo): \"Write the morpheme in its base form, even if the spelling changes in the word. 'happiness' = happy + ness, NOT happi + ness.\"\n\nPRACTICE WORD LIST (quiz words come from here):\nunkindness, rereading, hopeful, carelessly, unhappiness, teachers, replayed, beautiful\n\nMy mistake on the last worksheet: I split \"rereading\" as \"rer + eading.\" Prof: \"Find the meaningful parts: re + read + ing.\"\n\nNot on this quiz: allomorphs, infixes (next week).\nQuiz Thursday. Reading: ch. 3.","rules":[{"type":"questionCount","count":5},{"type":"maxWords","max":70},{"type":"plainText"}],"mistakes":[{"title":"Not saying how many words","why":"The AI picks its own number, and it usually picks more words than you need.","fix":"Be exact: \"Exactly 5 numbered words.\"","checks":["questionCount"]},{"title":"Trusting the AI to count words","why":"AI is bad at counting. Ask for a total and it often lands 20% over.","fix":"Fix the shape: \"just the word, then just the split.\"","checks":["maxWords"]},{"title":"Not limiting the words","why":"The AI picks its own words, which won't match your quiz list.","fix":"Say: \"Use only words from my professor's list.\"","checks":["r0"]},{"title":"Missing the spelling rule","why":"The AI may split by spelling, like 'happi + ness', which your professor marks wrong.","fix":"Add: \"Use base forms, like happy + ness.\"","checks":["r1"]},{"title":"Answers next to each word","why":"Seeing the answer right away means you never test yourself.","fix":"Add: \"Put all answers at the end under 'Answers'.\"","checks":["r2","plainText"]}],"promptHints":[{"label":"Says how many words","patterns":["\\b(5|five)\\b.{0,25}word"]},{"label":"Limits to the list","patterns":["only.{0,25}(list|words)","from (the|my) list"]},{"label":"Uses the spelling rule","patterns":["base form","spelling","happy \\+ ness"]},{"label":"Puts answers at the end","patterns":["answers?.{0,30}(end|bottom|after|separate)","(end|bottom).{0,20}answers?"]},{"label":"Shows the answer shape","patterns":["\\+","format"]}],"hint":"Practice should use your quiz words and your professor's rules. Limit the words, give the split format and the base-form rule, and say where answers go.","rubricLabels":["All 5 practice words come from the professor's list, and answers use the ' + ' format","Every split is correct and uses base forms (for example, beautiful = beauty + ful, unhappiness = un + happy + ness, carelessly = care + less + ly, teachers = teach + er + s)","All answers appear together after the last word under an 'Answers' line, with no explanations"]}