Free morphemes can be independently formed into words, and they can also be used as roots to form compounds by adding affixes.
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- Complex words are words that are formed with one free form and one or more affixes.
- a. Compounds are words formed by combining affixes and stems.
- Derivation is the process by which words are formed from existing words or roots by adding affixes. For example, when "friend" is combined with the prefix "un-"and the suffix "-ly", we get a new word "unfriendly".
- Most words can be said to be ______. A: motivated B: non-motivated C: affixes D: compounds
- 中国大学MOOC: _______ are those that cannot be used independently but have to be combined with other morphemes, either free or bound, to form a word.