1.Classify the words according to their combinative power in words with wide, limited and
restricted combinability into 3 groups:
Good, bad, old, new, fresh, aquiline, hazel, go, ride
2.Define the type of motivation (phonetic, morphological, semantic) of the following words:
Dick, readable, table-cloth, roar, sandwich, nonsense, jeans, clap-clap, tube, sunflower, mumble,
tulle.
3.Divide the following borrowings according to the degree of their assimilation:
Take, cartoon, chauffeur, call, fellow, police, wall, waltz, chemistry, machine, vis-?-vis, skipper,
character, detente, chair, get, cheese, alphabet, kindergarten, garage, troika, wine, tete-a-tete.
4.Explain the meaning of the given pairs of words:
Pig-pork; calf-veal;
cow-beef; sheep-mutton.
5. Consult the etymological dictionary and explain the origin of the suggested words:
Daughter, window, bird, goose, terrible, algebra, channel, town, lady, door, mutton, son, egg,
house.
6.Divide the following words into: a) fully assimilated; b) partially assimilated; c) unassimilated:
Pen, hors d’oeuvre, ballet, beet, butter, skin, take, cup, police, distance, monk, garage,
phenomenon, large, justice, lesson, criterion, nice, sequence, gay, port, river, loose, autumn, low,
convenient, lunar, experiment, skirt, bishop, regime, eau-de-Cologne.
7.State the origin of the following etymological doublets. Compare their meanings and explain
why they are called “etymological doublets”:
1. captain – chieftain, canal – channel, cart – chart;
2. shirt – skirt, shriek – screech, shrew – screw.
3. goal – jail, corpse – corps; travel – travail.
4. shadow – shade, off – of, dike – ditch.
8.Form the words with the help of prefixes in-, il-, im-, ir-. Translate the words into Russian:
Different, accurate, logical, proper, rational, moral, probable, definite, active, human, separable,
regular, movable, respectable, literate, sincere.
9.Write derivatives or compounds with:
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Refuse, prescribe, pain, ask, comfort, condition, like, lat, read, forget, pardon, describe, imagine,
honour, treat, heart, real, definite, fortune, depend, rest, rely, class, write, express.
10. Single out free or bound morphemes in the following words:
Childhood, schoolbuilding, linguist, dangerous, vitality, supermarket, barbarous, humanity,
domestic, socialist, cordial, spacious, artistic, mysterious, monotonous, profitable.
11. Explain the etymology and productivity of the affixes given below. Say what parts of speech
can be formed with their help:
-ness, -ous, -ly, -y, -dom, -ish, -tion, -ed, -en, -ess, -or, -er, -hood, -less, -ate, -ing, -al, -ful, un-,
re-, im (in)-, dis-, over-, ab-.
12. Explain the difference between the meanings of the following words produced from the
same root by means of different affixes. Translate the words into Russian:
Watery – waterish, embarrassed – embarrassing, manly – mannish, colourful – coloured,
distressed – distressing, respected – respectful – respectable, exhaustive – exhausting –
exhausted, bored – boring, touchy – touched – touching.
13. Define the type of word-building:
A mike, to babysit, a torchlight, homelike, to book, to murmur, a pub, okay, a make, merry-goround, H-bag, B.B.C., a go, M.P., a find, fatalism.
14. Explain semantic development of the suggested words, state their original and derived
meanings:
lord, hound, starve, meat, silly, spinster, deer, fowl, fear, town, spoon.
15. Define the semantic transference of meaning in the following examples:
a hand of a clock, the heart of the matter, the wing of the building, green years, a glass of
water, the marble speaks
16. Define whether the following words are homonyms or LSV of polysemantic words:
1) No mean scholar; to mean something
2) To propose a toast; an underdone toast
3) a hand of the clock; to hold a pen in one's hand
4) To be six foot long; at the foot of the mountain
5) To date back to year 1870; to have a date with smb.
6) To make a fire; to sit at the fire
7) To peel the bark off the brauch; to bark loudly at the strauger
8) a waiter is a person who instead of waiting on you at once, makes you wait for him, so that
you become a waiter too.
17. Define the type of synonyms and explain the difference between them:
a) ancient, elderly, aged, old
b) poverty, need, want
c) hide, conceal, disguise
d) girl, maiden, lass
e) stomach; belly, tommy
f) shiver, tremble, shudder
g) rest, holiday
h) to cry; to weep; to sob
i) to jump, to leap; to spring; to skip; to hop
18. Write antonyms for the words below and define their type:
good; deep; narrow; clever; young; to love; to give; strong; joy; evil; up; slowly; black; sad;
clean; darkness; big
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