MOR111 - Derivation 

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Sorry for not having answered any sooner. RhamosVhailejh is right. The verb clearly consists of two morphemes and is derivational: take > mis-take, mis-took, mis-taken, meaning: to understand sth. wrongly. And the noun mistake was derived from the verb by means of conversion (in fact in the 16th century for the first time). Today, we probably feel the noun MISTAKE to be one unit in the sense of FAULT.

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I may not be the professor, but your question seems to have gone unanswered for ten months, so if you would like an opinion, I would think that yes, "mis-" is a negative prefix in "mistake." It can also be found in words such as "misunderstand" or "misappropriate". With "mistake" meaning to take/interpret or do something incorrectly, it would seem like two morphemes to me.

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Hi professor, how do I know when a word is derivational or not? Is there a dictionary to check it? For instance, I know that MISLEAD has two morphemes, but what about the word MISTAKE? Is MIS a prefix here? Thanks in advance!

Nice lecture Sir, plz tell me about the difference between Etymology and derivation.

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please mr. if you could explain sentence pattern

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Bad presentation and misleading text. I got a bad grade