When Marley visits Scrooge, he tells him that he is being punished in the afterlife for his greedy and selfish ways. Scrooge comments that Marley had always been a good man of business. Marley replies, “Business! Mankind was my business. The common welfare was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance, benevolence, were all my business.” What does Marley’s statement mean?
a) He loved money more than people.
b) His only purpose in life was to make money.
c) His true purpose in life was to take care of people in need.
d) He was being punished because he loved money more than mankind.

Syllable added to a root word to change its meaning : affixan independent word--example run,walk,book : free morphemeaffix that gives grammatical meaning such as tense or number : inflectiona word part that must attach to a word in order to be usable : bound morphemedegree of comparison formed by adding -er or more to an adjective : comparativedegree of comparison formed by adding -est or most to an adjective : superlativeaffix added to the beginning of a word : prefixaffix added to the end of a word : suffixroot word of lovable : lovetwo roots used together to form one word : combining form

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