Use morphology and syntax to make grammatical sense of the following sentence (Mark all that apply.).

The ova of all mammals except the monotremes undergo holoblastic segmentation.

The - s inflection indicates that monotremes is a plural noun.

The suffix - ic indicates that holoblastic is an adjective.

The suffix - ation in the word segmentation is a noun-forming suffix denoting a process.

The - s inflection indicates that monotremes is a possessive noun.

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Alaina Hall

25 April, 14:44

Use morphology and syntax to make grammatical sense of the following sentence (Mark all that apply.).

The ova of all mammals except the monotremes undergo holoblastic segmentation.

The - s inflection indicates that monotremes is a plural noun.

The suffix - ic indicates that holoblastic is an adjective.

The suffix - ation in the word segmentation is a noun-forming suffix denoting a process.

The - s inflection indicates that monotremes is a possessive noun.

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Summer Glass · Answer 1

1: The - s inflection indicates that monotremes is a plural noun.

2: The suffix - ic indicates that holoblastic is an adjective.

3: The suffix - ation in the word segmentation is a noun-forming suffix denoting a process.

Explanation:

1: Noun "monotreme" is inflected for number (to make it plural). Inflecting a noun is called declension. Declension of a noun by - s is the most common method to make it plural.

2: Suffix - ic is added with holoblast to make it an adjective. Holoblastic segmentation is complete cleavage divinding the whole egg into distinct and separate blastomores.

Suffix - ic is usually used after Greek and Latin words to make their adjectives.

3: Suffix - ation is combination of two suffixes - ate and - ion to make (process) nouns from root words.

4: Last option (The - s inflection indicates that monotremes is a possessive noun) is NOT correct because there is no possession of monotremes. "monotremes" is simple plural noun.