Morpheme

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A morpheme is the smallest unit of language that holds meaning.

For example; 'kangaroo' is one morpheme.'Kangaroos' is two morphemes, 'kangaroo' and 'plural-s'. The s holds the meaning 'many' or 'more than one' in this example.

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