Bound morpheme

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Bound morphemes are morphemes that can occur only when attached to root morphemes. Affixes are bound morphemes. Common English bound morphemes include: -ing, -ed, -er, and pre-.

Morphemes that are not bound morphemes are free morphemes.

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