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Huckleberry Finn Morphology Analysis
Continuing with the text The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn written by Mark Twain for the morphology division of this project, it contains an abundant amount of words that are reasonable for readers of 12th grade – college level. However, the specific core of this paper is to highlight some words and their formation, and how this is beneficial for English Language Learners (ELL) to adapt to the English language (text form specifically). I will be analyzing words that are found in the selected text, and how they are constructive in assisting ELLs in adding words to their memory, breaking down words, and also forming words.

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