Serena Hoang

Prof. Fantuzzi
October 27, 2014
Project 2: Morphology
1. Passage:
The first team, made up of Army, Navy and Air Force personnel, completed training on
Tuesday and included 20 critical care and inpatient nurses, five physicians and five infection
control specialists who would instruct civilian health care workers in infectious disease
protocols.
The team was trained to identify the signs and symptoms of Ebola, the virus' transmission
and containment. They practiced donning protective equipment and learned to care properly for
Ebola patients as well as teach others to provide treatment.
While recent reports have presented some good news on the Ebola front that Liberia, the
hardest-hit country, may be experiencing fewer cases the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention in late September estimated that without global intervention in West Africa, the
number of cases could increase to 1.4 million.
For countries outside the Ebola-affected region, the forecast is less dire but not negligible,
since an increase in cases in Africa would boost the likelihood of the virus spreading through
travel.
2. Function Words & Content Words:
Function Words
the of and on who in to they for as well others
while have some that may be late without
could but not since an would through

Content Words
first team made up Army Navy Air Force
personnel completed training Tuesday included
critical care inpatient nurses five physicians
infection control specialists would instruct
civilian health care workers infectious disease
protocols was trained identify signs symptoms
Ebola virus transmission containment
practiced donning protective equipment
learned care properly patients teach provide
treatment recent reports presented good news
front Liberia hardest-hit country experiencing
fewer cases Centers Disease Control
Prevention September estimated global
intervention West Africa number increase
million countries outside Ebola-affected region
forecast less dire negligible Africa boost
likelihood spreading travel

3. Compound & Complex:

Compound: hardest-hit, Ebola-affected, forecast
Complex: Force, completed, included, inpatient, physicians, infection, control,
specialists, instruct, civilian, infectious, disease, protocols, identify, symptoms,

transmission, containment, practiced, protective, equipment, learned, properly,

patients, provide, treatment, recent, reports, presented, experiencing, Prevention,
estimated, intervention, increase, negligible, travel
4. Inflectional vs. Derivational:
Inflectional
Derivational
completed training included nurses protocols
Critical infection workers infectious identify
trained signs symptoms virus practiced
containment protective equipment properly
donning learned patients presented
provide treatment Prevention intervention
experiencing fewer cases Centers estimated
negligible
countries Ebola-affected spreading
5. English Stem for Derived Words:
Stem
Critic (N)
Infect (V)
Work (V)
Infect (V)
Identity (V)
Contain (V)
Protect (V)
Equip (V)
Proper (adj)
Pro
Treat (V)
Prevent (V)
Intervene (V)
Neglect (V)

Derivational
Critical (adj)
Infection (N)
Workers (N)
Infectious (adj)
Identify (V)
Containment (N)
Protective (adj)
Equipment (N)
Properly (adv)
Provide (V)
Treatment (N)
Prevention (N)
Intervention (N)
Negligible (adj)

6. Complex Words with Latin/Greek Origins:

Word
Origin
Root
completed
Latin
com (together,
common)
included
Latin
clud (close)

inpatient

Latin

pati = undergo, suffer,

bear

physicians

Greek

phys (nature,
medicine, the body)

Affix (es)
ed = past participle
suffix
in = prefix
representing/verb
formative, into
ed = past participle
suffix
in = prefix
representing/verb
formative, into
ent = present
participle suffix of
conjugations
ician = suffix forming
personal nouns
(denoting occupation)

infection

Latin

specialists

Latin

civilian

Latin

infectious

Latin

protocols

Greek

identify

Latin

transmission

Latin

containment

Latin

protective

Latin

properly

Latin

provide

Latin

recent
reports
presented

Latin
Latin
Latin

experiencing

Latin

fec (to immerse in

dye, discolor, taint,
poison)

in = prefix
representing/verb
formative, into
ion = action/condition
spec, spect, spectro
ist = person who
(watch, see, observe)
practices, doctrines
civ (citizen)
ian = adjectivemaking suffix
fec (to immerse in
in = prefix
dye, discolor, taint,
representing/verb
poison)
formative, into
(i)ous = adjective
sense possession
prot/o (primitive, first, pro = before, in front
chief)
of
col = together, jointly
ident (repeatedly,
fy = to make, cause to
again, the same)
be, render
trans (across, beyond, ion = action/condition
through)
con (with, jointly)
ment = action,
resulting state,
product
tegere (to cover)
pro = before, in front
of, for, forward
ive = adjective suffix,
tendency, disposition,
function, connection
per (through,
pro = before, in front
throughout)
of, for, forward
ly = suffix forming
adverbs from adj
vid (see)
pro = before, in front
of, for, forward
recens (fresh, new)
re = prefix, again
port (carry)
re = prefix, again
prae (before)
pre = earlier, before,
esse (to be)
in front of
ent = causing/
performing an action
ed = suffix past tense
of weak verbs
peri (to try, trial, test,
ex = prefix, out of,
danger)
from
ence = suffix adj
ing = suffix form from

Prevention

Latin

venire (to come)

intervention

Latin

inter (between,
among, jointly)

negligible

Latin

leg(ere) (to pick up)

travel

Middle English

travail (to toil, labor)

7. Morpheme Map:
Prefix
a = on, in, toward
di = two, twice, double
in = into
li =
pro = forward
gra = burdened, loaded
viv = live, life
e = out, away

Root

vid (to see)

verbs, result, product

pre = earlier, before,
in front of
ion = action/condition
ven/t = come
tion = suffix,
expressing action,
associated meanings
neg = no
ible = capable of, fit
for

Word
avid
divider
individual
livid
provident
gravidity
vividly
evidence

divider
dividers
dividing
livid
lividity
lividly

avid
avidity
avidly
avidin

gravidity
gravidities
gravid

provident
providential
providence
providently

Word Root:
VID

evidence
evidential
evidentially

individual
individually
individualists

vividly
vividness
vividest