1. Words which denote materially objects

• names of animals, birds, aquatic inhabitants: “passenger pigeon” (passenger + pigeon) names of professions; "paper + boy" "newspaper seller" (newspaper + boy); "passkey + man" "thief-burglar" (master key + man);

• names of tools and devices: "pen + knife" "penknife" (writing pen; pen with feather + knife);

• household items: "punch + bowl" "punch bowl" (punch + cup, bowl).

• names of minerals and precious metals: “maternal, uterine rock” (parent + rock); "red + ochre" "hematite" (red + ocher).

• names of plants: “passion flower, passiflora”

• items of clothing: "opera + hat" folding cylinder" (opera + hat).

• “family ties”: "country + cousin"

2. Subject-specific concepts. These include materially, really existing objects, but not material. They can be represented by names denoting material natural phenomena - snow, fog, etc. and formations - shoal, pass, steppe, taiga.

3. Non-subject-specific concepts. These are real phenomena accessible to direct perception by the senses.

4. Abstract concepts.

These include concepts that are the result of abstracting activity of thinking.

a) human qualities: "paper tiger", "non-dangerous opponent»

b) the status of a person: "spokesman of public opinion";

c) states: "stage + fever" (stage + fever) "an irresistible attraction to the stage."

d) scientific terminology: "party + wall" page firewall (load-bearing structure + wall).

e) concepts related to religious views and mythological ideas: "Passion + Sunday" (relative to the passion of the Lord + Sunday) "5th Sunday of Lent";

f) historical conceptsЖ English "red + coat" (red color + frock coat, uniform) source. "English soldier"

8. Types of the Morphemes. Splinters, Completives.

The morpheme is the smallest meaningful unit of the language (not a part of the word), which as it appears may be larger than a word in the case of analytical forms of words.

1. Lexical morphemes

2. Grammatical morphemes

There are different types of morphemes in English:

1) Acc. to their meaning & the role in word-building all morphemes are divided into 2 groups: root-morphemes (roots) & affixational morphemes (affixes).

The root morpheme is the lexical nucleus, the semantic center of the word. The rootmorpheme is a common part of a word-building means. E.g. work, worker, workable, workday

Affixational morphemes can in their turn be subdivided into 2 groups:

1. Acc. to their position affixes can be subdivided into:

-prefixes (morphemes which precede the root) E.g. ab normal, irrelevant

-suffixes (morphemes which follow the root)

-infixes (morphemes which are placed within the root) E.g. stand

2. Acc. to their function & meaning all affixes may be divided into:

-grammatical affixes (functional affixes: endings, inflexions) are used to form ne gr. forms of the same word. There are 8 gr. affixes in English: -s, -ed, -ing, -er, -est – verbs; -s, -s’ – nouns; -th – numerals.

-derivational affixes serve to build new words. There are about 200 derivational affixes in English