Simplex words are words that contain a single morpheme. In other words, simplex words cannot be broken down into smaller parts. On the other hand, complex words are words that contain two or more morphemes that can be broken down and can stand alone. In my opinion, the following words: forbid, forget, forgive, forgo, forswear are all complex words for the simple fact that they can be broken down into two parts, systematically. All the words contain the preposition, “for”, and a verb attached. Every word has these two parts that can stand alone and have their own meanings. But they come together, systematically, to create these new complex words.

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”.

Simplex words are words with a single morpheme and no affixes that cannot be broken down into anything smaller. Complex words are words that have two or more morphemes, affixes and are able to break down into smaller parts. When looking at the words forbid, forget, forgive, forgo, and forswear they are all complex words. Each word can separate to have it’s own meaning and have a different meaning when put together. For example, for-bid, for-get, for-give, for-go, and for-swear. When examining each word, there is a prefix “for” in the beginning of each word and at the end there are different constituents attached. For example, bid, get, give, go, and swear are all constituents added on to the prefix “for” in order to create more complex words from a simplex word. Since all of these words can be broken apart into smaller words, it shows that they are all complex.

A simplex word is a word that cannot be broken down any further. They can stand alone and cannot be broken down into more words with their own meanings. A complex word is a word that can be broken down into two or more meaningful constituents. When looking at these words, forbid, forget, forgive, forgo, and forswear, they are all complex words. Each word can be broken apart into two different words. Each word can stand alone. Each word when broken apart has a meaning that can then be used in the complex word. I also believe these words may be systemically related, but I am still a little unsure. I believe the “for” in each of these words has a similar enough meaning to be considered systemically related, but I may be misunderstanding.

From last weeks class and reading I understand that simplex word cannot be broken down any further into smaller units. Meaning, there are no affixes attached to the word, the word itself stands alone. Whereas complex words, contain affixes and are able to break down into smaller units or constituents. I believe that the words “forbid,” “forget,” “forgive,” “forgo,” and “forswear” are complex words. For each word given  there is a prefix (for) with an a root word attached. One example is, the word  “forget.” You are able to breakdown the word “forget” into two constituents, for and get. Looking at the word “for” alone, I understand that it is a simplex word because it cannot be broken down any further. In the list of words given, they all have 2 constituents, which means that they would be complex words. In this case the word “for” would be the prefix and the words “bid”, “get”, “give”, “go” and “swear” would be the affixes.

In last week’s lecture we learned about simplex and complex. A simplex word is a word that cannot be broken down any further. A simplex word only has one morpheme. A complex word can be broken down further because it has two more morphemes in the word. For example, the words that were provided (Forbid. Forget, Forgive, Forgo, and Forswear) are all complex words. In the word forswear, you can break it down to for-swear. The words for-swear and all the other words, can stand alone and still have their own meaning. Like in the word for-give. The word for has its own meaning and also the word give has its own meaning. Now if you would look at a simplex word like the word eat that word can not be broken down any further because it has one meaning which is to eat. The word eat only has single morpheme unlike the word for-get.

The evidence for these verbs to be complex is that complex words decomposed or break down into constituents; for-bid, for-get, for-give, for-go, for-swear. On the other hand, the possible evidence for these words being simplex is the for- is not “meaningful” in relation to the other verbs, bid, get, give, go, swear thus they can’t be broken down. I personally think that these words are complex, besides the given evidence for complex provided above,  the prefix “for” is a “meaningful unit” that indicates ” someone or something going to” as well it can stand on its own and in relation to the other verbs add extra meaning.

A simplex word consists of a single morpheme that cannot be broken down into smaller segments. While a simplex word is made up of one constituent, a complex word has two or more. A complex word consists of two or more morphemes that can be broken down into smaller parts and usually compose of one or more roots and or affixes. In this case the words that were provided which were forbid, forget, forgive, forgo, and forswear are all complex words. I say this because for-bid and for-give are words that can stand alone and still have their own meaning. For example, the word “for” means to have support or purpose of something or someone and the word “give” means to freely give up or transfer the possession of something to someone. These two words, that have two completely different meanings, stand alone and they both create a word that produces another meaning.