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A Compound word is...
a) the union of two words
b) a mix of words
c) the union of two morphemes
a)the union of two words
how many types of compound words do we have?
a)4
b)2
c)3
c)3
IT IS AN EXAMPLE OF AN OPEN COMPOUND WORD.
a) living room
b) toothbrush
c)self-esteem
a) living room
IT IS AN EXAMPLE OF A CLOSED COMPOUND WORD
a)sister-in-law
b)ice cream
c)facebook
c)facebook
WHICH IS THE DEFINITION OF AN OPEN COMPOUND WORD?
a)words look like one word. At one point, these words weren’t used together.
b)a compound adjective is hyphenated
c)a word is created in cases when the modifying adjective is used with its noun to create a new noun.
c)word is created in cases when the modifying adjective is used with its noun to create a new noun.
another word for conversion is...
a)truncation
b)derivation
c)zero derivation
c)zero derivation
how many types of clipping are there?
a)3
b)5
c)4
c)4
what's the acronym for "Graphics Interchange Format"?
GIF
THE WORD "SEAFOOD" IS A...
a)open compound
b)hyphenated compound
c)closed compound
c)closed compound
what's the blended word for high technology?
high-tech
what's the clipped word for "graduate"?
grad
in the following sentence: my house is orange, "orange" is...
a)noun
b)adjective
c)verb
b)adjective
Is a word-formation process that assigns an existing word to a different word class, part of speech, or syntactic category...
a)blending
b)conversion
c)clipping
b)conversion
•Is the name for the word formed from the first letters of each word in a phrase.
a)blending
b)back-formation
c)acronym
c)acronym
what's the acronym for Personal Identification Number?
PIN
what's the meaning for "sitcom"?
situation comedy
A word is formed by combining two separate words with different meanings to form a new one...
a)blending
b)conversion
c)clipping
a)blending
another word for "Blending" is...
a)portmanteau
b)truncation
c)zero derivation
a)portmanteau
another name for "clipping" is...
a)truncation
b)zero derivation
c)portmanteau
a)truncation
Is the formation of new word by the removal of an affix.
a)blending
b)back-formation
c)clipping
b)back-formation