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Test on the form a word has.
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Lexical words consist of a single morpheme, a stem, or they can have a more complex structure created by a process of inflection, derivation or compounding.
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Lexical words can take inflectional suffixes to signal meanings and roles, such as tense, plural, genitive,
comparison.
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Test on the meaning a word conveys.
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Test on the syntactic role a word plays in units.
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It is the relationship between two or more independent words which commonly appear together.
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It is a multi-word unit whose meaning cannot be predicted from the meanings of its constituent words.
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These words contain more than one stem.
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It is a sequence of orthographic words which function like a single grammatical unit.
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Lexical words can take derivational affixes (prefixes and suffixes) to signal meanings and roles, such as tense, plural, genitive, comparison.