Back-formation and Shortening

Back-formation and Shortening

1st Grade

13 Qs

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Back-formation and Shortening

Back-formation and Shortening

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English

1st Grade

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13 questions

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

  1. Back-formation can only be used to convert existing nouns into verbs.

True or False ?


True

False

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

In linguists, back-formation is the process of (1) ………… a new word (a neologism) by (2) ………… actual or supposed affixes from another word.

changing - fixing

converting - removing

forming - removing

making - converting

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Choose the correct answer:

surveillance: source word - survey: back-formation

aviate: source word - aviation: back-formation

translation: back-formation - translate: source word

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Back-formation and clipping has the same effect in linguistics.

True or false?

True

False

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

  1. The majority of back-formed words are ….…, for ……. can develop (or generate) a number of nouns, and various types of participial adjectives.

verbs

  1. nouns

adverbs

preposition

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Shortening is a word creation process in which affixes are removed from existing words.

True or False?

True

False

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Shortening is word formation by removing some segments of an existing word to create a synonym.

True or False?

False

True

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