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  1. Identify the compounds in the word-groups below. Say as much as you can about their structure and meaning.

Emily, our late maid-of-all-work

a heavy snowfall

an automobile salesman

corn-coloured chiffon

vehicle searchlights

little titbit (very important news) in The Afro-American (the name of the newspaper)

German A. A. fire (anti-aircraft fire)

a born troubleshooter

to disembark a stowaway (one who hides himself on a ship to make a journey without paying)

an old schoolmate

a cagelike crate

a slightly stoop-shouldered man

a somewhat matter-of-fact manner

a fur-lined boot

to pick forget-me-nots and lilies-of-the-valley

a small T-shirt

a sportscar agency

  1. Say whether the following lexical units are word-groups or compounds. Apply the criteria outlined in the foregoing text to motivate your answer.

railway platform

snowman

light dress

traffic light

railway station

landing field

film star

white man

hungry dog

medical man

landing plane

top hat

distant star

small house

green light

evening dress

top student

bluecoat (policeman)

black skirt

medical student

hot dog

blue dress

U-shaped trap black shirt (a fascist black shirts were part of uniform of the Italian Fascist party)

roughhouse (play that has got out of hand and turned into brawling)

booby trap (a trap laid for the unaware as a practical joke, often humiliating)

  1. Translate the following sound-imitative words into Russian. Comment on the structure of sound-imitative synonyms.

1. Tinkle, jingle, clink; ting, chink.

2. Chatter, jabber, clatter, babble.

3. Chirp, cheep, twitter, chirrup.

4. Slap, clap, dab, smack.

5. Clash, crash, clang.

  1. Comment on the formation of the words and translate them into Russian.

1. Hubbub, band, blubber, bluster, flare, gibber, grumble, thunder, twirl, whiz, hiss, prance, plump, bump, boom, mumble, sizzle, twitter.

2. Murmur, pooh-pooh, pom-pom, dumdum.

3. Bibble-bubble, swish-swash, sputter-spatter, babble-gabble, ding-dong, flip-flap, ping-pong, fizzle-sizzle, clack-click, bleb-blob, gibble-gabble.

  1. Find shortenings in the jokes and extracts given below and specify the method of their formation.

1. Brown: But, Doc, I got bad eyes!

Doctor: Don't worry. We'll put you up front (=1. Мы пошлем Вас на передовую. 2.Мы посадим Вас в первый ряд. (игра слов)). You won't miss a thing.

2. "How was your guard duty yesterday, Tom?

"O. K. I was remarkably vigilant."

"Were you?"

"Oh, yes. I was so vigilant that I heard at once the relief sergeant approaching my post though I was fast asleep."

3 "Excuse me but I'm in a hurry! You've had that phone 20 minutes and not said a word!" "Sir, I'm talking to my wife.''

4. Two training planes piloted by air cadets collided in mid-air. The pilots who had safely tailed out were interrogated about the accident:

"Why didn't you take any evasive action to avoid hitting the other plane?"

"I did," the first pilot explained, "1 tried to zigzag. But he was zigzagging, too, and zagged when I thought he was going to zig."

5. Any pro (professional actor) will tell you that the worst thing possible is to overrehearse.

6. Hedy cut a giant birthday cake and kissed six GIs (Government issue. WWII servicemen) whose birthday it was.

7. A few minutes later the adjutant and the O. D. (officer of the day; officer on duty) and a disagreeable master sergeant were in a jeep tearing down the highway in pursuit of the coloured convoy.

  1. Explain the formation of the following blends. Translate them into Russian (use supplementary material).

Flush, glaze, good-bye, slash, smog, flurry, twirl, chortle, dumb-found, cablegram, electrochute, galumph, swellegant, zebrule, dolla-rature, fruice, animule, motel.