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There are many words that are freestanding morphemes:

Car

Cat

Dog

Bat

Eye

House

There are many words that have two morphemes, and are called compound words:

Backboard (back + board)

eyelash (eye + lash)

Some morphemes have meanings but are not words by themselves, so they are not freestanding. These are called "bound" morphemes:

Blending (blend + ing, these are both morphenes with one freestanding morpheme "blend" and one bound morpheme "ing"). Most bound morphemes are prefixes and suffixes.

Examples of "Bound" morphemes that are suffixes:

-ation (denoting instance of action)

-ing (denoting verbal action)

-ish (having the qualities of...sylish, have qualities of style)

-ous (characterized by the nature of...studious, characterized by the nature of study)

-er (indicating more of...)

-ed (indicating past action)

-s (indicating pluralization)

-tion (forming nouns of action)

-able (having ability to....)

Examples of "Bound" morphemes that are prefixes:

un-(do the opposite of...ex: untie)

non-not doing, not involved with (non-alcoholic, not with alcohol)

im-variant of prefix in-, assimilated before (impure, was not pure before)

re-do again (re-evaluate...means to evaluate again)

ex-without, excluding

A blended word is when you take two words and blend them together to make a new word.

Fantastic + Fabulous = Fantabulous

Breakfast + Lunch = Brunch

Guess + Estimate = Guesstimate

Smoke + Fog = Smog

Spoon + Fork = Spork

Skirt + Shorts = Skort

Blends are not the same as compound words. With compound words, two words are joined but retain their original form, like dark + room = darkrroom. Neither word changed. With word blends, you take the front half of one word and join it with the back half of another word, making a whole new word: Smoke + Fog = Smog. Smo from smoke and og from fog, Smog.

You can create your own blended words when talking, that's typical. The created words are not actual words in the dictionary most when created this way, but are acceptable if blended well.

Good Blending:

Gigantic + enormous = ginormous

Positively + absolutely = Posilutely

Bad Blending

Pizza + breath =Pizth/Preath/Pith (none sound appropriate)

Cracked + tooth = Crooth/Crath/Croth (none sound appropriate)

But there are many that are now just standard, as are the ones above. Below are a few more standard word blends that are used in USA.

Bang + smash = bash

Glamour + ritz = glitz

Slovenly + language = slang

By + cause = because

Wipe + sweep = swipe

Blow + spurt = blurt

Huge + monstrous = humongous

Prim + sissy = prissy

Twist + fiddle = twiddle

Work + alcoholic = workaholic

Flap + drop = flop

Binary + digit = bit

Internal + communication = intercom

Flutter + hurry = flurry

Cellulose + diaphane = cellophane

Bold + rash = brash

Marionette + puppet = muppet

Emotion + icon = emoticon

Of the + clock = o’clock

Parachute + troops = paratroops

Squirm + wiggle = squiggle

Dumb + confound = dumfound

Modulator + demodulator = modem

Electronic + execute = electrocute

Wade + toddle =waddle

Picture + element = pixel

Snappy + jazzy = snazzy

Flame + glare = flare

Motor + hotel = motel

Fourteen + nights = fortnight

God + be + ye = Goodbye

Haggle + tussle = hassle