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Properties and Types of Compounds Quiz part 2

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is the process by which a compound lexeme is derived from two or more simpler lexemes?

a)

Conversion

b)

Clipping

c)

Blends

d)

Compounding

2.

Which type of compound words are typically noun phrases being used as adjectives or verbs?

a)

Endocentric Compounds

b)

Closed compound words

c)

Hyphenated compound words

d)

Open compound words

3.

What is the main source of new word development in some languages like Chinese?

a)

Compounding

b)

Blends

c)

Conversion

d)

Clipping

4.

Which type of compounds consist of a head and a dependent, where the meaning of the semantic head is a hyponym of the meaning of the entire compound?

a)

Endocentric Compounds

b)

Exocentric Compounds

c)

Copulative Compounds

d)

Other Words Formations

5.

What is the linguistic process of forming new words by taking parts of two different words and putting them together?

a)

Compounding

b)

Conversion

c)

Clipping

d)

Blends

6.

Which type of compounds are written without hyphens or spaces?

a)

Open compound words

b)

Endocentric Compounds

c)

Hyphenated compound words

d)

Closed compound words

7.

What is the word formation process that shortens words by clipping off part of an existing word?

a)

Blends

b)

Compounding

c)

Conversion

d)

Clipping

8.

Which type of compounds do not contain a headword and dependent word?

a)

Other Words Formations

b)

Endocentric Compounds

c)

Exocentric Compounds

d)

Copulative Compounds

9.

What are compounds that are formed by taking individual letters from multiple words and combining them into a new word?

a)

Clipping

b)

Conversion

c)

Blends

d)

Acronyms

10.

Which type of compounds denote an entity made up of various parts listed in the form and typically have two semantic heads?

a)

Other Words Formations

b)

Copulative Compounds

c)

Exocentric Compounds

d)

Endocentric Compounds

11.

What is the difference between endocentric and exocentric compounds?

a)

Endocentric are formed by combining two or more elements, exocentric are formed by combining two or more words

b)

Endocentric are formed by combining two or more elements, while exocentric are formed by combining two or more words

c)

Endocentric are more common in everyday language, while exocentric are more common in specialist contexts

d)

Endocentric compounds have a headword and a dependent word, while exocentric compounds do not

12.

Which type of compounds are written with hyphens connecting the words?

a)

Endocentric Compounds

b)

Closed compound words

c)

Hyphenated compound words

d)

Open compound words

13.

What is the process of forming a new word by changing the function of a word?

a)

Compounding

b)

Conversion

c)

Clipping

d)

Blends

14.

Which type of compounds are written with spaces between the individual words?

a)

Hyphenated compound words

b)

Open compound words

c)

Endocentric Compounds

d)

Closed compound words

15.

What is the word formation process that forms a new word by taking parts of two different words and putting them together?

a)

Blends

b)

Compounding

c)

Conversion

d)

Clipping

16.

what is the importance of compound words?

 

a)

they are not essential for any language to exist

b)

they are unique among grammatical structure

c)

they are not related to any linguistic concept 

d)

they are only used in Chinese language

17.

what is the example of anomotapoeia word?

a)

meow

b)

greenhouse

c)

bio

d)

phone

18.

What is the difference between open andclosed compound words?

a)

Open compounds are always hyphenated, while closed compounds are never hyphenated

b)

Open compounds are used in specialist contexts, while closed compounds are more commonly used in everyday language

c)

Open compounds are formed by combining two or more words, while closed compounds are formed by combining two or more elements

d)

Open compounds have spaces between the individual words, while closed compounds are written without spaces

19.

which one is endocentric 

a)

well-being

b)

bio

c)

textbook

d)

WHO

20.

which one is hyphenated compound

a)

bookmark

b)

clean-cut

c)

babysitter

d)

cookbook