From what I understood from last weeks meeting, complex words are made up of two or more morphemes. These types of words can be broken down into much smaller units. Now, simplex words have no affixes and is not part of a compound. It can not be broken down any further than it already is. These words usually can stand alone, while, I believe, complex words cannot. I think that when looking at the words, forbid, forget, forgive, forgo, and forswear, I see that they are all complex words. My reasoning for this is because teach word is able to be broken down further than a simplex word would be able to. For example, the word “forgo” would be broken down into the two words “for-go”. The “go”, would be the affix of the word. So for the other words, the affixes would be, “get”, “bid”, “give”, and “swear”. All of these words are able to stand alone once the word in the beginning is taken away, which would be the word “for”.

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