During the seminar, the professor used examples from morphemics to illustrate how affixes alter word meaning.

The linguist presented a morphemic analysis of the new dialect to show how word forms are composed.

Linguists study cranberry morphemes to understand how certain bound forms resist independent meaning.

In his analysis of Old English, the researcher concluded that the comparative suffix behaved as an empty morpheme with no independent meaning.

Unlike bound morphemes, a free morpheme can function independently as a complete word in a sentence.

In English, many roots and simple words are free morphemes that can stand alone and convey meaning.

In some dialects, the plural is expressed by a zero morpheme rather than an audible suffix.

In many languages, the past tense of certain verbs is formed by a null morpheme rather than an audible suffix.

In certain languages, null morphemes indicate grammatical distinctions without adding any phonetic material, and linguists debate how to represent such null morphemes in formal analyses.

Some linguists claim that plural can be expressed by zero morphemes rather than by overt suffixes.