Task 44
Specify the types and subtypes of the underlined shortenings.
1. He inquired whether Dr. Fane was in (W.S. Maugham).
2. We stopped our bikes and stared through the mouth of that tunnel and I could tell they were just as scared as I was even though they were older (S. Shepard).
3. The European Headache Foundation (EHF) is concerned misuse of painkillers could be causing headaches rather than curing them (Cosmopolitan).
4. He ought to be the man in command and he was quite determined to oust Col. Andrews if it could possibly be done (A. Christie).
5. Other teams have fused goat embryos with sheep embryos, to produce a new life-form they call a geep (Listener).
6. Even the children's clinic, which was to grow into a hospital and a research station, was more real to me than - say - the puzzled misery of the last time he came home on leave just after V.E.Day (M. Allingham).
7. Danish immigrants of the late 1800s brought with them information about a new kind of business: the cooperative. How does a co-op work? (Bright Ideas Calendar).
8."I need your expertise," Bundy said. (Avery lapped up that sort of flattery.) "How does five cc.'s compare with five hundred mg.'s?"
"It doesn't. Five cc.'s is a liquid measure. It's a spoonful."
"What I want to know is, how much vitamin С am I getting in five cc.'s?" (W. Morris).
9. He said, "What do you do in the evenings, Lorna? Do you watch Telly?" I did take this as an insult, because we call it TV, and his remark made me out to be uneducated (M. Spark).
10.
Springtime... is a welcome time for workaholics,
and perhaps a better time for "resolutions" than during
the
cold grim days of January and February. And the
recent studies on SAD
(Seasonal Affective Depression) seem to confirm this (Daily
Telegraph).
11. Paine, who jumps from a plane but has forgotten his chute, is not in a decision-making situation (T.J. Cooney).
12. He allowed that even world leaders needed constructive criticism now and then. I took this to be a not-too-subtle allusion to his stint in Washington during the first Roosevelt Administration. But I was not about to set him up to reminisce about F.D.R., or his role in U.S. bank reform (E. Segal).
13. Aquacise teachers use routines devised by ex-swimming instructress/synchronised swimmer Jennifer Horrocks; physiotherapists at local hospitals and GPs have also created some routines (Essentials).
14. Jon was (according to Jon) a 5ft 11in ex-tennis pro, with blond hair and green eyes (Cosmopolitan).
15. He was from LA and, for the next two months, we exchanged faxes, letters, phone calls and increasingly affectionate e-mails (Cosmopolitan).
Word-formation Task 45
Examine the underlined words and establish the word-formation method (or a combination of methods) by which each word is created.
1. He was still laughing when Miss Pratt reentered the room (A. Huxley).
2. The wineglass was empty (J. Grisham).
3. They cut through the glass with a laser (Internet).
4. Poirot did not allow himself to be angered (A. Christie).
5. She shifted sharply, she knocked him as she pretended to pick up her glove, she groped among his feet (D.H. Lawrence).
6. Well, he was a great blustering, vivid sort of chap. Great womanizer, beer drinker - all the rest of it (A. Christie).
7. The liveliness of the dance enthused the audience (Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary).
8. A cigar smoked in a green glass ash-tray (R. Chandler).
9. I hate these stupid plastic sporks (Internet).
10. He shook his head and looked again because he thought he might still be asleep (W. Saroyan).
11. Aunt Maria would mildly observe that, next time Uncle Podger was going to hammer a nail into the wall, she hoped he'd let her know in time, so that she could make arrangements to go and spend a week with her mother while it was being done (J.K. Jerome).
12. The first thing I heard was that both of them had gone off to seek their fortunes, as if they were in some silly fairy tale (G.K. Chesterton).
13. To make your computer come to life, you need software - information you feed into the PC either on a floppy disk or a CD (Cosmopolitan).
14. Prehistoric people sculpted animal bones; Italian Michelangelo used marble; Frenchman Auguste Rodin used bronze; African sculptors used wood; Native Americans used clay. Which substance do you think would be easiest to sculpt? (Bright Ideas Calendar).
15. I've partied and made a lot of new friends and just done the things I'd never done while I was married to Mike (Cosmopolitan)
16. Push "3" on the vator to get to the third floor (Internet).
17. Vacuum cleaners were not terribly expensive, and one extra monthly payment shouldn't make all that difference (A. Hailey).
18. His hair had thinned and what was left was stringy, yellowish-gray (I. Shaw).
19. Try their High Performance anti-perspirant spray -you cannot buy a more effective aerosol. It keeps you fresh and dry all day long with the added reassurance that it is skin-friendly (Cosmopolitan).
20. The sad truth is people with bags of confidence breeze through life with far more ease than those who weigh themselves down with self-criticism (Cosmopolitan).
21. I dressed in a striking green dress and very high-heeled black shoes, so I would tower over her (Cosmopolitan).
22. Every so often there's a clean-up and a shakedown (E.S. Gardner).
23. "A lot of vegetarians I know are much less judgmental these days about people who eat meat, and I know a number of people who class themselves as vegetarians but will very occasionally eat meat," says ex-veggie Paul (Internet).
24. Are you a has-been, a might-have-been, or a never-was? (Internet).