Assignment for Word Formation
I. Multiple choices
1. The new words produced from shortening including clipping and acronyms amount to of all the new words.
A. 30% to 40% B. 28% to 30% C. 8% to 10% D. 1-5%
2. is defined as the formation of words by adding word-forming or derivational affixes to stem. This process is also known as .
A. derivation, affixation B. affixation, derivation
C. derivative, affixation D. affixation,
3."De-, dis-, un- ," in "de-compo, disunite, unwrap", are called .
A. pejorative prefixes B. negative prefixes
C. rervative prefixes D. miscellaneous prefixes
4. "Hyper-, macro-, mini-, sub-, super-, ultra-", belong to .
A. prefixes of orientation B. prefixes of attitude
C. prefixes of degree or size D. prefixes of time and order
5. belong to pejorative prefixes.
A. anti-, contra-, counter-, pro- B. auto-, neo-, pan-, vice-
C. de-, dis-, un- D. mal-, mis-, pudo-
6. "Pan-European" means .
A. for Europe B. against Europe
C. the whole of Europe D. former Europe
7."Profiteer, engineer, priestess, kitchenette, booklet " are called .
A. concrete deverbal nouns B. concrete denominal nouns
C. abstract denominal nouns D. abstract deverbal nouns
8. "Productivity, happiness, largeness" fall into the group of .
A. Deverbal nouns B. Denominal nouns
C. De-adjective nouns D. De-adverb nouns
9. belong to deverbal suffixes.
A. -able, -ive B. -ly, -ward C. -ate, -en D. -ful, -less,
10. When we u "a green hand " to mean "an inexperienced person", "a black hor" to mean "an unexpected winner", we should read them as .
A. a green 'hand, a 'black hor B. a 'green hand, a 'black hor
C. a green 'hand, a black 'hor D. a 'green hand, a black 'hor
11. Sometimes, the meaning of a compound can be inferred from its parate elements, for example, .
A. hot dog B. red meat C. flower pot D. fat head
12. The following can be changed into plural forms by adding inflectional -s directly to their ends, except .
A. brother-in-law B. three—year-old C. major general D. new-born
13. Which group of the following are acronyms?
A. VOA, AIDS, BASIC, D-Day B. CORE, Lar, TOEFL, NATO
C. G-man, BBC, BASIC, NATO D. TV, ID, TB, UFO
14. The most productive means of word-formation in modern English are the following except .
A. compounding B. affixation C. acronymy D. conversion
15. “Omnibus, earthquake, discotheque” are replaced by “bus, quake, disco” respectively in the way of .
A. conversion B. clipping C. acronymy D. backformation
II. Decide whether the following statements are true or fal.
1. A rule of word-formation is usually identical with a syntactic rule.
2.Word-formation rules themlves are not fixed but undergo changes to a certain extent.
3. Affixes like “-th”are very productive in current English.
4. The chief function of prefixes is to change the word class of the stems.
5. The primary function of suffixes is to change the meaning of the stem.
6. Compounds are words formed by combining affixes and stems.
7. “-age, -al, -ance, -ation, -ence”in “linkage, dismissal, attendance, protection, existence”
can produce largely concrete nouns by being added to verb stems.
8. The meaning of a compound is usually the combination of stems.
9. The free phra has the primary stress on the first element and the condary stress, if any, on the cond.
10. In both compounds and free phras the adjective element can take inflectional suffixes.
11. Conversion is only a change of grammatical function of a lexical item with no loss of its different range of meaning originally conveyed.
12. A fully converted noun from an adjective has all the features of nouns except taking an indefinite article or, -(e)s to indicate singular or plural number.
