... WORDFORMATION EXERCISES: MCQs
NOUN ADJECTIVE ADVERB
1. Subject
2. (possessive) adjective + noun
3. enough ... humor.
a. popular (a) b. popularity (n) c. popularly (adv) d. popularize (v)
15. As she is so ……… with her present job, she’s decided to leave.
a. satisfaction (n) b. satisfactory (a) c. satisfactorily ... the job.
a. qualification b. qualified c. qualify d. qualifying
26. The weather will be bright with …………showers.
a. occasion b. occasional c. occasionally d. occasions
27. Most birds …………in the...
... on insights from various
research traditions.
Word- formation in English can be used as a textbook for a course on word-
formation (or the word- formation parts of morphology courses), as a source-book ... word- formation, word formation, and wordformation, all
of them attested), and even where the spelling is conventionalized, similar words are
often spelled differently, as evidenced with grapefruit ... role of phonology in word- formation, and the nature of word- formation rules.
The author welcomes comments and feedback on all aspects of this book,
especially from students. Without students telling...
... when we speak of ‘words’, we may now
turn to the question what exactly we are dealing with in the study of word-
formation.
2. Studying word- formation
As the term word- formation suggests, ... suggests, we are dealing with the formation of words,
but what does that mean? Let us look at a number of words that fall into the domain
of word- formation and a number of words that do not:
... thousands of words, and new
words enter our minds and our language on a daily basis. This book is about words.
More specifically, it deals with the internal structure of complex words, i.e. words...
... can't keep you.
a) on to b) on with c) up to d) up with
1 Exercises
1 What kind of word? (B)
Read this paragraph and then say which word class each underlined word belongs to. To help you decide, ... difficulty.
When you study a unit, start with the
explanation page and then go on to the exercises.
Often you can study a part of the explanation and
then do one of the exercises. The letter after each ...
explanation the exercise relates to. If you have made
mistakes in your answers to the exercises, look back
at the explanation.
5 Exercises
1 Present continuous or simple? (A-B)
At work Mark is talking...
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We've lived here for ten years.
(And we still live here.)
Linking word: so, and 150-153
C Words in sentences
Some words can belong to different classes depending on how they are used in ... on c) out d) up
85 Don't go too fast. I can't keep you.
a) on to b) on with c) up to d) up with
16 Exercises
1 Form (B)
Put in the verbs. Use the present perfect continuous.
Ilona:...
... WORDFORMATION (tiền tố, hậu tố, và các dạng kết hợp)
Đối với bài tập về ngữ vựng như WORDFORMATION (tạo ra 1 từ phái sinh thì 1 từ cho sẵn) ... lượng
- VD: mileage (tổng số dặm đã đi), poundage (lượng cân), tonnage (trọng tải tính bằng tấn. Cars with high mileage
should not be driven. = Xe chạy nhiều mile rồi không nên chạy nữa (= nên mua ... forepart (phần trước), forefathers
(tổ tiên), foresee (thấy trước), forewarn (cảnh báo trước), foreword (lời nói đầu)
Franco-
- "Thuộc về Pháp"
-free
- Với danh từ -> tính từ chỉ ý "không...
... orthographic word, grammatical word and the notion
of lexeme as possible definitions of word . Apply each of these notions to the words
occurring in example (20) of chapter 1 and show how many words ... into the domain of word- formation, before we finally discuss
how word- formation can be distinguished from the other sub-branch of morphology, inflection.
1. What is a word?
It has been ...
different words tell us about our word- formation rule?
(14) a. table *untable
car *uncar
pillow *unpillow
b. available unavailable
broken unbroken
For more material and information,...
... phúc
33. Health Healthy Healthily
Mạnh khoẻ
34. History Historic/ al Historically
Lịch sử
35. Information Inform Informative
Thông tin
36. Invention Invent Inventory
Phát minh
37. Laziness Lazy ... đớn
88. addition add additional additionally Thêm vào
89. addiction addict addictive Nghiện
form of WORD
I. Thành lập danh từ chỉ ngời:
V - er
Teach/Teacher (giáo viên)
Sing/ singer (ca sỹ)
Farm/ ... instruction: hướng dẫn
Compete/ competition: ctranh
Prevent/ prevention: ngăn cản
V-ation
(Sự )
Form/ formation: thành lập
Combine/ combination:kết hợp
Determine/ determination:
quyết định
Concentrate/...
... beautiful pictures. (art)
117. How many holidays do you have? (nation)
118. She gets very angry if you with her ideas. (agree)
119. Don’t make a fire here. It's very (danger)
120. Air is a big problem ... live in the part of the city. (south)
83. It's to have some toys for the children to play with. ( advise)
84. That speaks too quickly. ( announce)
85. The wanted to interview all of us. ... Pacific was a feat. (remark)
89. We go to the pub before lunch on Sunday. (vary)
90. All the runners, with the of Mark, were exchausted (except)
91. Our club has just purchased new sports (equip)
92....
... anything.
Vicky: What did you say? You
three days?
1 Exercises
1 What kind of word? (B)
Read this paragraph and then say which word class each underlined word belongs to. To help you decide,
you can ... difficulty.
When you study a unit, start with the
explanation page and then go on to the exercises.
Often you can study a part of the explanation and
then do one of the exercises. The letter after each ... Fortunately, they managed to obtain
money from the National Lottery.
Linking word: so, and 150-153
C Words in sentences
Some words can belong to different classes depending on how they are used in...