Analyze the words in terms of root and stem. impracticableness unbelievably
Underline each bound morpheme in the following words. island surname disclose
flavourfulness
famous
duckling cranberry reading subvert
poets
What are the inflectional morphemes in the following phrases or sentences? 1) the boy‘s books 2) the greatest achievements 3) It‘s snowing.
4) John climbed the mountain.
Give all the possible inflections for the following words. book, forget, short, snap, take, goose, heavy Chapter 2 Decide whether the following statements are true or false.
1.English is the language of the early inhabitants of the British Isles. 2.The first peoples known to inhabit England were Celts who mainly spoke Latin.
3.The Romans invaded the British Isles and occupied it until about 410. Consequently the Latin of the Roman Legions was a major language used by the early inhabitants of the British Isles.
4.As the German tribes invaded Britain, the Celtic languages
gradually retreated.
5.Celtic made only a small contribution to the English vocabulary. 6.Indo-European refers to the family languages spoken originally in Europe.
7.Latin and French belong to the different language groups. 8.English belongs to the West-Germanic language group of Indo-European language family.
9.The first people in England about whose language we have definite knowledge are the Celts.
10.Certain Germanic tribes, Angles, Saxons, and Jutes were the founders of the English nation.
11. About 95 percent of old English are no longer in use.
12.Old English is characterized by the frequent use of compounds which in turn is an important linguistic feature of Germanic language.
13.Old English has much less loan words compared with modern English.
14.Modern English is a language of leveled endings.
Compare Old English with Middle English. What are their respective characteristics?
Chapter 3 On semantic basis, prefixes are divided into nine groups:
1. Negative Prefixes 3. Pejorative prefixes
5. Prefixes of orientation and attitude 7. Prefixes of time and order 9. Miscellaneous prefixes
2. Reversative prefixes 4. Prefixes of degree or size 6. Locative prefixes 8. Number prefixes
Now, compare the meanings of the words with their roots or stems and judge what changes have taken place on meanings. Then please decide which group the prefixes above belong to. Just fill in the numbers that represent the different groups. An example has been done for you.
vice- ex- semi- mis- re 7 fore- il- under- tele- mal- anti- dis- un- pre- de- multi- auto- micro-
In the following table, there are 12 words of different part of speech. Match the words with the corresponding suffixes to form a new word. Write out the new word and its part of speech. An example has been done for you.
Analyze the new nouns in the above table. Are they abstract nouns or concrete nouns? Which suffixes will lead to an abstract noun and which to concrete ones? Write A for abstract and C for concrete in the following form. An example has been done for you. -dom -ity -ery -hood -ism -er -ese -ess -sion -ee A