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Module 3. Word-building

Total questions: 28

Worksheet time: 45mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What are morphemes?

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2.

Select those which are types of affixes:

a)

Postfix

b)

Prefix

c)

Root

d)

Radical

3.

Words consisting of a root and an affix are called:

(a)  

4.

Coining a new word by adding one or several affixes to some root morpheme is known as...

(a)  

5.

-some, -less & -y are examples of

a)

Noun-forming affixes

b)

Adjective-forming affixes

c)

Verb-forming affixes

d)

Adverb-forming affixes

6.

Name 5 noun-forming affixes

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7.

What is the difference between a neologism and a nonce-word?

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8.

Select those which are examples of productive affixes:

a)

-ish

b)

-re

c)

-able

d)

-some

e)

-hood

9.

The constituent morphemes within derivatives always preserve their current meanings

a)

true, no semantic shift occurs within them

b)

false, they are open to subtle semantic shifts

10.

What is the connotational difference between the adjectives “starry” and “starred”?

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11.

Making a new word from some existing word by changing its category of part of speech is:

a)

Conversion

b)

Derivation

c)

Composition

d)

Affixation

12.

In English, Conversion is:

a)

Productive

b)

Non-productive

13.

Give 3 examples of conversion:

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14.

Love - to love, work - to work, drink - to drink. All these occurred as a result of:

a)

Conversion

b)

Borrowing

c)

Historical processes

d)

Compounding

15.

Which parts of speech are more affected by conversion than others? (select several)

a)

Nouns

b)

Verbs

c)

Adjectives & Adverbs

d)

Prepositions

e)

Pronouns

16.

Making a new word by combining two or more stems is called

a)

Composition

b)

Derivation

c)

Conversion

d)

Shortening

17.

What is peculiar about derivational compounds?

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18.

Composition is not a productive type of word-building in English

a)

True

b)

False

19.

Handicrafts, craftsmanship, Anglo-Saxon and states-personage examples of:

a)

Morphological compounds

b)

Syntactic compounds

c)

Neutral compounds

20.

Give some examples of syntactic compounds:

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21.

What makes a compound “idiomatic”?

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22.

Select the criteria for distinguishing compounds from word-groups:

a)

Graphic

b)

Semantic

c)

Phonetic

d)

Morphological

e)

Syntactic

23.

What is the one thing that makes semi-affixes different from affixes? Give examples.

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24.

Shortenings are a productive type of world-building in English:

a)

True

b)

False

25.

Give some examples of initial shortenings:

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26.

Which type of word-building is the following abstract illustrative of?

(a)  

27.

Doubling a stem is characteristic of:

a)

Composition

b)

Derivation

c)

Reduplication

d)

Conversion

28.

How do you understand the process of back-formation?

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