WorksheetsProperties and Types of Compounds Quiz part 2
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
What is the process by which a compound lexeme is derived from two or more simpler lexemes?
Conversion
Clipping
Blends
Compounding
Which type of compound words are typically noun phrases being used as adjectives or verbs?
Endocentric Compounds
Closed compound words
Hyphenated compound words
Open compound words
What is the main source of new word development in some languages like Chinese?
Compounding
Blends
Conversion
Clipping
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?
Endocentric Compounds
Exocentric Compounds
Copulative Compounds
Other Words Formations
What is the linguistic process of forming new words by taking parts of two different words and putting them together?
Compounding
Conversion
Clipping
Blends
Which type of compounds are written without hyphens or spaces?
Open compound words
Endocentric Compounds
Hyphenated compound words
Closed compound words
What is the word formation process that shortens words by clipping off part of an existing word?
Blends
Compounding
Conversion
Clipping
Which type of compounds do not contain a headword and dependent word?
Other Words Formations
Endocentric Compounds
Exocentric Compounds
Copulative Compounds
What are compounds that are formed by taking individual letters from multiple words and combining them into a new word?
Clipping
Conversion
Blends
Acronyms
Which type of compounds denote an entity made up of various parts listed in the form and typically have two semantic heads?
Other Words Formations
Copulative Compounds
Exocentric Compounds
Endocentric Compounds
What is the difference between endocentric and exocentric compounds?
Endocentric are formed by combining two or more elements, exocentric are formed by combining two or more words
Endocentric are formed by combining two or more elements, while exocentric are formed by combining two or more words
Endocentric are more common in everyday language, while exocentric are more common in specialist contexts
Endocentric compounds have a headword and a dependent word, while exocentric compounds do not
Which type of compounds are written with hyphens connecting the words?
Endocentric Compounds
Closed compound words
Hyphenated compound words
Open compound words
What is the process of forming a new word by changing the function of a word?
Compounding
Conversion
Clipping
Blends
Which type of compounds are written with spaces between the individual words?
Hyphenated compound words
Open compound words
Endocentric Compounds
Closed compound words
What is the word formation process that forms a new word by taking parts of two different words and putting them together?
Blends
Compounding
Conversion
Clipping
what is the importance of compound words?
they are not essential for any language to exist
they are unique among grammatical structure
they are not related to any linguistic concept
they are only used in Chinese language
what is the example of anomotapoeia word?
meow
greenhouse
bio
phone
What is the difference between open andclosed compound words?
Open compounds are always hyphenated, while closed compounds are never hyphenated
Open compounds are used in specialist contexts, while closed compounds are more commonly used in everyday language
Open compounds are formed by combining two or more words, while closed compounds are formed by combining two or more elements
Open compounds have spaces between the individual words, while closed compounds are written without spaces
which one is endocentric
well-being
bio
textbook
WHO
which one is hyphenated compound
bookmark
clean-cut
babysitter
cookbook
