Exercises

Exercise 1. a) Make the morphemic analysis of the following words, b) Translate the words into UkrainianRussian.

act, ailment, air, asymmetry, beggarly, chairman, childishness, conclude, democratic, disturbance, drawback, eatable, eliminate, everydayness, expressionless, eyelet, fact, footballer, foretell, gentlemanly, governmental, honeymooner, illegal, illumination, illumine, illustrate, immeasurable, immovable, inflammability, innovation, irrelevance, landmark, loveworthy, marriage, matter-of-factness, monopolize, old-ladyish, outstay, pot, power, prospective, receive, self-praise, serve, troublesome, undernourishment, unsystematic, voyage, warmonger, winter, womanishness, workmanship, zeal.

Exercise 2. Classify the stems of the words given below into simple, derived, compound, free, bound, semi-bound.

babylike, bluebell, blue-eyed, book, busload, cameraman, colour-blindness, crossing, document, dusty, enrich, fashionmonger, foolishness, foresee, furnitureless, gladden, granulate, headachy, homeless, hyperslow, irresponsibility, kind-heartedness, look, old-maidish, playwright, purify, reddish, resist, rewrite, shock-proof, shoemaker, small, snow-whiteness, sunflower, take, tnickload, trustworthy, unbutton, unfriendliness, unpleasantness.

Exercise 3. Comment on structural types of words. Arrange the following words into:

1. simple,

2. derived,

3. compounds,

4. derivational compounds.

Railway, child, childish, bald-headed, toy, mute, deaf, deaf-mute, act. actor, long-legged, dark, darkness, friend, friendship, everything, boyishness, open-hearted, daytime, narrow-minded, whatever, big, biggish, space, spaceman, old, old-timer, teenager, ill, ill-mannered, double, fame, famous, norm, normal, sunrise, timesaving, sharp, sharpen, hand, handful, handy, moon, honey-mooner, week-end, bare, leg, bare-legged, three-coloured, film, film-star, mistress, breakdown, overgrow, light-blue.

Exercise 4. Arrange the following words into three groups: those having:

1. free stems;

2. bound stems;

3. semi-bound sterns.

Public, voyage, boyish, disarrange, manly, freedom, vital, waiter, experience, businesslike, annual, speechless, careful, policeman, well-known, half-done, personal, difference, patience, untrue, longish, length, likely, terrorist, unselfish, tremendous, famous, weekly.

Exercise 5. Comment on simple stems and derived stems. Arrange the following words into two groups:

1. those having simple stems,

2. those having derived stems.

Hearty, heartily, organise, organised, consciously, boyish, boyishness, enslave, en-slavery, effortless, boxer, princess, quickly, familiarity, brutality, singer, steadiness, courageous, worker, boiled, appearance.

Exercise 6. Give the definition of a root-morpheme. Define roots in the following sets of words.

Bake, baker, bakery; civil, civilian, civilise, civilised, civilisation; collect, collection, collector, collective, collectivisation; differ, difference, different, differential, differentiate; gentle, gentleman, gentility, gentleness, genteel, gently; please, pleasant, pleasure; describe, prescribe, inscribe; success, successful, unsuccessful, successfully, succession, successor, successive; porter, transport, import, export.

Exercise 7. Comment on the derivational suffix -s in the following nouns.

authority 1) авторитет, 2) влада authorities адміністрація

cloth 1) тканина, 2) ганчірка clothes одяг

colour колір colours прапор

custom звичай customs митниця

development розвиток developments події

direction напрямок directions інструкція

duty обов’язок duties 1)службові обов’язки,

2) мито

draught тяга, протяг draughts шашки

glass 1) скло, 2) склянка glasses окуляри

honour честь honours шана

humanity людство humanities гуманітарні науки

picture картина pictures кіно

power сила, міць powers повноваження

talk бесіда talks переговори

work робота works 1) завод, 2) збірка праць

Exercise 8. Translate the following sentences. Choose those cases in which the suffix -s is derivational.

1. Where are my glasses? I can't see anything without them. 2. There was an explosion in the glass works some days ago. 3. Time works wonders. 4. Why do you scatter yourself in so many directions? 5. Follow the directions and everything will be all right. 6. "What does she study?" "The humanities." 7. His grandfather was buried with military honours. 8. All the travellers must go through the customs. 9. Each country has its own customs, and if you live in this country you must know them. 10.I am very sensitive to draughts. 11. He usually beats me at draughts. 12. Let's discuss the latest developments. 13. We have no powers to solve such problems. 14. Don't exceed your powers.

Exercise 9. Arrange the following into compounds and free word-groups.

Railway, railway station, railway carriage, neck-lace, necktie, velvet jacket, blue jacket, government office, office-boy, office-girl, mother's mark, punctuation mark, excellent mark, below the mark, mother tongue, mother bee, mother-in-law, black sheep, sheep-dog, sheep skin, old oak, oak-tree, dancing-hall, dancing girl, stone wall, stone-blind.

Exercise 10. Classify the following compounds according to the part of speech they belong to.

Age-old, home-made, anything, skin-deep, killjoy, yes-man, salesman, ill-fitting, whitewash, three-room, first-rate, metal-cutting, baby-sit, haymaker, water-proof, handshake, well-bred, tender-hearted, whatever, anybody, one-sidedly, never-to-be-forgotten, himself, bottleneck, widespread, old-looking, sunbathe, whoever, third-rate, clean-shaven, hairdresser, hair-do, well-wisher, oak-tree, life-long.

Exercise 11. Arrange the following compounds according to the type of composition and the linking elements into: