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26. The weather will be bright with …………showers.
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27. Most birds …………in the...
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the texts to form
one word that fits in the same numbered space in the texts. Write the new word in
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... WORDFORMATION EXERCISES
Exercise 1
1. Detroit is renowned for the………… of cars. PRODUCE
2. If you make ... don't (spell) these words.
20. The weather (cast) looks bad for a picnic rainy and windy!
Exercise 7
We earn our _____ (LIVE) in America today in peaceful ______ (COMPETE) with people all across ... The prime minister thinks there may be a __________ to overthrow him. (conspire)
8) In __________ with Tokyo, London and Paris are relatively cheap. (compare)
9) The police were unable to __________...
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45. The (APPEAR)______ of steamboats and railroads reduced
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form a word ... institution
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III. Fill in each numbered blank with one suitable word.
Nowadays people are more aware that wildlife all over the world is
in (31) _______. ... Give the correct form of the word in brackets:
36. Marilyn Monroe was very (FAME)________ in 1960s.
37. That car is (SURPRISE) ______ expensive.
38. Passing the exam with high grade was beyond...
... 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 ... one of the central
problems in word- formation, productivity (chapter 3). The descriptively oriented
chapters 4 through 6 deal with the different kinds of word- formation processes that
can be...
... 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.
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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.
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