Task 1: Answer the following questions: What is a functional style?
What is a register?
What sub-styles of the formal style do you know and what are their general characteristics?
What registers are included into the informal style?
What words are called ’occasionalisms’?
What is ‘slang’ and what kinds of slang can be distinguished?
Task 2: Determine what functional style is represented in the following text. Try to identify the kind of morpheme highlighted in the words below and their origin. The item number follows the word in analysis. Put the Nos after each classification in the given column: