Morphology is best described as the study of

• A. The organization of words and morphemes
• B. Sentence structure
• C. Phoneme production
• D. Discourse patterns

Answer: (A)

Morphology focuses on the structure of words and how they are built from morphemes—the smallest units of meaning or grammatical function. It examines how roots combine with prefixes and suffixes to form new words and to convey tense, number, or other grammatical roles, as in cat + s to make cats or un + happy to form unhappy. This is different from syntax, which looks at how words are arranged in sentences; phonology, which studies sound patterns and pronunciation; and discourse, which concerns language use across longer stretches of talk. So morphology is about word formation and internal structure rather than sentence order, sound production, or broader language use.