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FREE VS BOUND MORPHEMES
 Free morpheme: a simple word, consisting of one morpheme eg. house, work, high,
chair, wrap. They are words in themselves.
 Bound morpheme: morphemes that must be attached to another morpheme to receive
meaning.
EG: UNKINDNESS
 UN- and -NESS are the bound morphemes, requiring the root KIND to form the word.
 These are also called affixes as they are attached to the stem. There are two types as
outlined below:
 Prefix (front of the base)= Un-
 Suffix (end of the base)= -ness