How many morphemes does the word "ungentlemanliness" have?

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leslie,


Five

un + gentle + man + li + ness

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How many morphemes does the word "controversy" have?

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morpheme is the smallest significant unit of grammar,isn't it?

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hey leslie

it has 5.

*bound morphemes need to be attached to other words* 
*free morphemes can stand alone as words themselves*

un - is a bound morpheme meaning "not"
gentle - is a free morpheme meaning "kind"
man - is a free morpheme meaning " a member of the male sex"
li - is the conjugating form of the bound morpheme "ly" which means "in the way of" or "to be like/similar to"
ness - is a bound morpheme meaning "the quality of"

So if you took all the morphemes and instead wrote a sentence to mean the same thing, it would be like " To not have the quality of being a kind man."

Hope that helped! ^^

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Hi!  Yes I counted 5 also... here's how it might be built up:

man
...gentleman  (or, manly)...
...gentlemanly...
...ungentlemanly (or, gentlemanliness)...
...ungentlemanliness.

While 'ungentle' and 'unmanly' are also possibilities, 'ungentleman' is not really accepted as a word.

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