The word "marvelously" contains four morphemes: "marvel," which is the root or base morpheme, "ous," which is a derivational suffix that turns the noun into an adjective, "ly," which is an adverbial suffix, and the implicit grammatical morpheme indicating the adverb form. Thus, the breakdown is: marvel (root) + ous (adjective suffix) + ly (adverb suffix).
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They are not. For example, the -ty in twenty, thirty, etc are morphemes which imply "times ten".
The word "they" is one syllable.
The word did has one syllable.
The word 'answer' has 2 syllables. An-swer.