Word is a sound or a group of sounds that expresses a meaning and forms an independent unit of a language (Hornby, 1995-1374). Fuad mas'ud classifies word into some types, namely nouns, verbs, pronouns, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions, and interconjunctions (1987:63)
A word at least consists of one morpheme which has a lexical meaning. A word can also consists of two or more morphemes. go, book, good are the examples of the word consisting of one morpheme. books, cooks, beautiful are the examples of words consisting of two morphemes. books consists of the morpheme book and the morpheme -s ; cooks consists of the morpheme cook and the morpheme -s ; and beautiful consists of the morpheme beauty and the morpheme -ful.
References:
Hornby, A.s. 1995. Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary of Current English. Fifth edition. Great Britain: Oxford University Press.
Mas'ud Fuad. 1987. Essentials of English Grammar. Yogyakarta: BPFE
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