NOUN
- a morpheme that occurs only as part of a larger construction; eg an -s at the end of plural nouns
How To Use bound morpheme In A Sentence
- A morpheme is the smallest unit of meaning in a language; a bound morpheme is one that appears only in combination with another morpheme, such as the suffixes and prefixes of English. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XVI No 1
- Bound morphemes have to be attached to a free morpheme, and so cannot be words in their own right.
- An analogous account can be given of many of the bound morphemes of English and other languages.