Student: Voxobjonova Shukurona

Midterm 2
The aspects of language
Student: Voxobjonova Shukurona
Group: 20 110
Instructor: M. Umarova
Provide relevant descriptions and examples for the terms

1. 
   Synonyms A synonym is a word, morpheme, or phrase that means exactly or nearly the same as another word, morpheme, or phrase in a given language. For example, in the English language, the words begin, start, commence, and initiate are all synonyms of one another.
   
2. 
   Collocations Collocation refers to a group of two or more words that usually go together. A good way to think of collocation is to look at the word collocation. Co - meaning together - location - meaning place. Collocation​s are words that are located together.
   

make tea - I made a cup of tea for lunch.
do homework - I did all of my homework yesterday.

3. 
   Clipping is the process of forming a new word by dropping one or more syllables from a polysyllabic word, such as cellphone from cellular phone. In other words, clipping refers to part of a word that serves for the whole, such as ad and phone from advertisement and telephone
   

4. 
   Acronyms  A word formation process in which the first letters (sometimes the first few letters)of the words in a phrase are extracted and put together to form a word, pronounced as a word by the usual rules of English spelling, with the same meaning as the original phrase.
   

Find the differences and write them.

1. 
   Academic and General English
   
   1. 
      Academic English is very pertinent, which is set up to meet the specific needs of the learners. The teaching aims between the two are different.
      
   2. 
      General English is the purpose of the examination, in addition to language learning without any purpose, so general English is also called basic English
      

2. 
   Jargons and Slangs
   
   1. 
      Slang is actually quite difficult to define. It's a very colloquial variety of language; we use it in highly informal situations, in speech, and with people very much from a similar social background to us. ...
      
   2. 
      Jargon, on the other hand, is the variety of language that belongs to a specific profession or activity.
      

3. 
   Phrase and Clause
   
   1. 
      A phrase is any collection of words that behaves like a part of speech, like a noun phrase (“my brother Stu”), an adjectival phrase (“in a different shade of blue”), or an adverbial phrase (“with elegance and tact”).
      
   2. 
      A clause is any noun phrase plus a verb; they can be sentences, but they don't always have to be.
      

4. 
   Abbreviation and Acronyms
   
   1. 
      Abbreviation is the articulated form of the original word. UK, USA, CBI are the abbreviations.
      
   2. 
      Acronym is a form of new word. Radar means Radio detection and ranging.
      

5. 
   Compounding and Blending
   
   1. 
      Compound words are made of other words using a hyphen or by just joining the words together but they can be easily separated. Broad- shouldered, appletree, treetop are good examples.
      
   2. 
      Blending, on the other hand, uses words to form a new one, but the initial words cannot be separated. Smog, motel are the examples. Parts of words are taken and merged to form a new one: smoke+ fog= smog.