Morphemes are
A) the smallest speech units that carry meaning.
B) rules for deriving meaning from sounds.
C) the smallest distinctive sound units of a language.
D) rules for combining words into grammatically correct sentences.

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Morphemes are the smallest speech units that carry meaning. They can be words or parts of words, such as prefixes or suffixes, that add meaning to a word. For example, "un-" is a morpheme that means "not", and adding it to "happy" creates the word "unhappy".

Morphemes Are