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Million Dollar Arm Morphological Analysis
I watched the movie Million Dollar Arm and I choose the character JB to do morphological analysis of some of his dialogues from the movie. At first, to do morphological analysis we need to know what is morpheme? A morpheme is the smallest unit of or the smallest piece of a word that contributes meaning to a word. Example: The word ‘management’ has 2 morphemes in it manage-ment. Some words have just one morpheme like ‘destined’. All morphemes are either free or bound. Free: A free morpheme is one that can stand on its own that is it is an entire word. Free morphemes may appear with other bound morphemes attached to them crucially, though; they don’t need to have other morphemes on them. Bound: A bound morpheme cannot stand on its own, …show more content…
Popo, you are about to break the NFL single-season sack record, and when you do, you deserve to cash in, plain and simple. That's where Seven Figures Management comes in. We make sure that when you reach a career milestone like that, that you are rewarded for that achievement, in short, that you get paid very well. Now, my question to you, Popo, is Will you let me help you do that?
Here the words “ but, lot, of, people, are, to, pay, for, a, piece, it, you, about, break, single, season, sack, record, when, do, deserve, cash, in, plain, and, that, where, seven, we, make, sure, reach, career, like, short, very, well, now, question, let, help” contains only 1 morpheme. The words “willing, figures, management, milestone, comes, rewarded, achievement” contains 2 morphemes. Here, Willing= will + ing. Here, ‘will’ is the root word and ‘ing’ is inflection. Figures= figure + s. Here, ‘figure’ is the root word and ‘s’ is inflection. Comes= come + s. Here, ‘come’ is root word and ‘s’ is inflection. Rewarded= reward + ed. Here, ‘reward’ is root word and ‘ed’ is inflection. Management= manage + ment. Here, ‘manage’ is root word and ‘ment’ is suffix. Achievement= achieve + ment. Same as ‘management’. Milestone= mile + stone. Here, both are root

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