Practical assignments

Exercise 1. Match the definitions with the type and the example for it:

a.carter, bulldozer, leader, conductor, dictator, rector, alcoholism, feudalism	1. zero affixes
b. evacuee, nominee, trustee, refugee	2. agent suffixes
c. corruption, errection, generation, protection	3. international suffixes
d. go, come, boy, world, all, they, soon, four, five, he, she, wish	4. reception of action
e. teacher, farmer, coster, singer, milker, actor, director, inspector	5. abstract notions
f. kinglet, ringlet, lording, princeling	6. diminutive suffixes

Answers:

1.- d 2.- e 3.- a 4.- b 5.- c 6.- f

Exercise 2. Insert these adjectives into the sentences below

soldier	emergency	occupation
Ambition	fanatic	connection
Originality	sufficient	proportion
nuclear	deception	bidder

1. A _______is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.

2.All warfare is based on_________.

3.A _______war can ruin your whole day.

4.Always remember your weapons system was made by the lowest________.

5.Every ________is an enemy.

6.I wish to have no _________with any ship that does not sail fast; for I intend to go in harms way.

7.A continuing flow of paper is __________to continue the flow of paper.

8.A lack of planning on your part does not constitute an _________on my part.

9.___________ is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.

10. It is neither wealth nor splendor, but tranquility and__________, that gives happiness.

11. __________is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you herd it.

12. The amount of work to be done increases in _________to the amount of work already completed.

Keys:

1. Fanatic, 2. Deception, 3. Nuclear, 4. Bidder, 5. Soldier, 6. Connection

7. Sufficient, 8. Emergency, 9. Ambition, 10. Occupation, 11. Originality,

12. Proportion

Exercise 3.Match similes with the translation:

1.beggardom	a.сліпота
2.butlerdom	b.учительство
3.officialdom	c.братство
4.newspaperdom	d.вдівство
5.widowhood	i.сусідство
6.darkness	f.доброта
7.brotherhood	m.жіноцтво
8.goodness	n.газетярство

Keys:

1-m, 2- i, 3-b, 4-n, 5-d, 6-a, 7-c, 8-f

The literature used

1. Korunets I.V. Contrastive Typology of the English and Ukrainian Languages

2. Ganetska L.V. Lexi-Maker: Modern English Lexicology in Tables, Figures, and Exercises

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