The English words forbid, forget, forgive, forgo, and forswear are considered a Simplex verb. I feel as though these words are Simplex because each of these words have the ability to be split, creating more than one morpheme. If it was a Complex verb, these words would not be have the ability of being split into two. In other words, these words would not be able to be broken down.  I also feel as though each of these words create different word forms as well. For example, the word “forgive.” If you split this word into two morphemes it would be the word “for” and the word “give” which have two different meanings that create brand new word results. Whereas, if you only asked us to analyze the word “for” instead of “forgive” it will be considered a Complex word. This would be a Complex word over the simple fact that it is not able to be broken down/split into two.

      I think the English words forbid, forget, forgive, forgo, forswear are all examples of complex verbs.  This is due to the fact that complex words can be broken down into more than one morpheme. We know that a morpheme contains both form and meaning. These words share the same prefix for- which means to have and this shows it can stand alone. It attaches to words that also portray meaning alone: “bid”, “get”, “give”, “go”, and “swear”. An example of what a simplex word would be is the word “forum”. This word only has one morpheme and can not be simplified any smaller. Although this word shares the same prefix for- it still differs because ‘um’ does not have significant meaning. However, I was still confused as to whether these verbs are systematically related. I don’t think these words relate systematically because they all contain different endings. Can you please clarify?