glorious
sight. An
intending passenger
was chatting with
one of the porters.
“Fine sight, the sun tipping the hills with gold,” said the poetic passenger.
“Yes,” reported the porter; “and to think that I was often as
lucky
as them ‘ills.
3.”You have an
admirable
cook, yet you are always growling about her to your friends.”
“Do you suppose I want her lured away?”
4.Patient:Do you extract teeth
painlessly
?
Dentist:Not always – the other day I nearly
dislocated
my wrist.
5.Dear Daddy-Long Legs.
Please forget about the
dreadful
letter I sent you last week – I was feeling
terribly
lonely
and
miserable
and sore-throaty the night I wrote. The head nurse is very bossy.
She is tall and thinnish with a dark face and the funniest smile. please forgive me for
being impertinent and ungrateful.
III.Explain the etymology and productivity of the affixes given below.
ness, ous, ly, y, do, ish, tion, ed, en, ess, or, er, hood, less, ate, ing, al, ful, un, re, im
(in), dis, over-, ab-.
IV.Deduce the meanings of the following derivations from the meanings of their
constituents. What are the meanings of the affixes in the words under examination?
Reddish,adj.; overwrite,v.; irregular, adj.; illegal, adj.; retype, v.; old-womanish, adj.;
disrespectable, adj.; inexpensive, adj.; unladylike, adj.; disorganize, v.; renew, v.;
eatable, adj.; overdress,v.; disinfection, n.; snobbish, adj.; tallish, adj.; sandy, adj.;
breakable, adj.
V.Find cases of conversion in the following sentences.
1.The clerk was eyeing him expectantly. 2.Under the cover of that protective din he was
able to toy with a steaming dish which his waiter had brought. 3.an aggressive man
battled his way to Stout’s side. 4.Just a few yards from the front door of the bar there
was an elderly woman comfortably seated on a chair, holding a hose linked to a tap and
watering the pavement. 5.What are you doing here? I’m tidying your room. 6.My seat
was in the middle of a row. I could not leave without inconveniencing a great many
people, so I remained. 7.How on earth do you remember to milk the cows and give pigs
their dinner? 8.Ten minutes later I was speeding along in the direction of Cape Town.
9.Restaurants in all large cities have their ups and downs.
VI.One of the italicized words in the following examples was made from the other by
conversion. What semantic correlations exist between them?
1.a)”You’ve got a funny
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