9. Identify the difference in meaning of the given compounds possessing different distributional patterns.

Model: board-school – school-board;

The compound word board-school denotes ‘an elementary school under the management of a School Board’, whereas the compound word school-board means ‘a local board or authority responsible for the provision and maintenance of school’. Different distributional patterns signal the difference in meaning.

House-dog – dog-house; finger-ring – ring-finger; pot-flower – flower-pot; pot-pie – pie-pot; boathouse – houseboat; play-boy – boy-play; boy-toy – toy-boy.

10. Sort out the following compound words in accordance with their derivational patterns into three groups: 1) compounds of the n+a→N pattern; 2) compounds of the a+a→A pattern; 3) compounds of the n+ving→N pattern. Define the generalized meaning of these patterns.

Model: garden-party, summer-house, raincoat, sea-front, suitcase, day-train, textbook, season-ticket, bath-robe.

In the derivational pattern n+n→N expresses the generalized meaning: 1) of temporal relations (summer-house, day-train, season-ticket); 2) of locative relations (garden-party, sea-front); 3) of purpose or function (raincoat, suitcase, textbook, bath-robe).

Lazybones, low-class, white-hot, south-east, dark-purple, low-class, peace-loving, dog-fighting, greenhouse, sweetmeat, breath-taking, light-green, darkroom, picture-going, blue-black, summer-flowering, awe-inspiring, red-hot, tea-teaching.

11. Fill in the gap with one of the compound words in the list below and give their lexical meanings: an argy-bargy, awestruck, a bodyguard, lowbrow, a go-getter, to keyboard, pea-souper, a plantswoman, a scatterbrain, a shareholder, a breakdown, to blackball

1. Nick has to leave the club as all its members….him. 2. We didn’t know how to plant these bushes and asked a …..to consult us. 3. All the data then has to be… . 4. Helen Brown has the reputation of a real… . 5. He is getting on my nervous. I won’t discuss this matter with such a…as he is. 6. Susan’s sister is a… of a big prosperous company. 7. Today’s… forced drivers to slow down that caused an enormous traffic congestion. 8. Henry has been working as a… for the last few years. 9. They were sitting in… silence hearing the truth at last. 10. Sue moved to Madrid after the… of her marriage. 11. They became unintentional witnesses of a bit… between actors and their directors. 12. My father can’t stand many… programmes showed on TV every day.

12. Distribute the given compound words regarding the relations between the ICs into 1) coordinative compounds: a) reduplicative, b) phonetically variated rhythmic twin forms, c) additive compounds; 2) subordinate compounds.

Model: riff-raff

The compound riff-raff meaning ‘disreputable or undesirable people’ is a coordinative compound formed by joining the phonetically variated rhythmic forms (group b).

Willy-willy, tip-top, duty-free, road-building, chi-chi, ping-pong, knowledge-hungry (eyes), fighter-bomber, wrist-watch, blah-blah, hand-made, secretary-stenographer, ticky-tacky, dark-brown, snow-white, war-weary (people), week-long, home-sick, hob-nob, boy-friend.

13. Classify the given compound words according to the part of speech they represent into five groups: 1) compound nouns; 2) compound verbs; 3) compound adjectives; 4) compound pronouns; 5) compound adverbs.

To type-write, anybody, heartfree, upright, sleeping-car, to honeymoon, sweet-smelling, sunbeam, to care-take, reddish-brown, dog-tired, downhill, broadways, elsewhere, indoors, to fortune-hunt, maidservant, sick-making, housekeeping, to sightsee, everything, knee-deep, outside, to whitewash.