Morphemes occur asж

A) Сonstituents of sentences.

B) Сonstituents of words.

C) Constituents of sounds.

D) Constituents of phrases.

E) Free forms.

176. The words lab and laboratory are different in:

A) Structure.

B) Stylistics.

C) Meaning.

D) Affixation.

E) Derivation.

177. Which of the following homonyms are partial?:

A) Found (v) -found (v).

B) Bank (n) -bank (n.

C) Match (n) -match (v).

D) Ball (n) - ball (n).

E) Jam (n) – jam (n).

178. Which of the following phraseological units is not motivated?:

A) Bear a grudge.

B) Bear malice.

C) Hot dog.

D) Take a liking.

E) To show one’s teeth.

179. Check for the homographs in the following sets of words:

A) New – knew.

B) Brake – break.

C) By – buy.

D) Piece – peace.

E) Bow - bow.

180. The words TV, T.B. are cases of:

A) Clipping.

B) Blending.

C) Back-formation.

D) Abbreviation.

E) Sound interchange.

181. Sound imitation is:

A) The derivation of new words by subtraction of a real or supposed affix from existing words.

B) The naming of an action or thing by a more or less exact reproduction of a sound association with it.

C) Opposition of words or word-forms.

D) Lexical abbreviation.

E) Reduction of a word to one of its parts.

182. A phraseological fusion is:

A) A partially motivated word-group.

B) A completely non-motivated word-group.

C) A partially non-motivated word-group.

D) A motivated word-group.

E) A free word-group.

183. Which of the following is a minor way of word-formation?:

A) Word-composition.

B) Conversion.

C) Affixation.

D) Word-derivatio.

E) Back-formation.

184. Which of the following words is the case of an initial clipping?:

A) T-shirt, H-bomb, V-day.

B) Story, phone, cello.

C) Flu, fridge, tech.

D) Babble, chatter, giggle.

E) Beg, housekeep, butler.

185. Which of the following sound-imitative words are interjections?:

A) Purr, mew, cock-a-doodle-do.

B) Quack, moo, buzz.

C) Hiss, gibber, bray.

D) Bang!, hush!, pooh!

E) Clash, crash, whip.

186. " Thesaurus" means:

A) A collection of words put in groups together according to likeness in their meaning.

B) A dictionary of abbreviations.

C) An etymological dictionary.

D) A list of explanations of words, especially unusual ones at the end of a book.

E) An alphabetical list of words used in a book or collection of books by one writer.

187. Which of the following suffixes are of Greek origin?:

A) -dom, -hood, -ly.

B) -able, -ible, -ant –ous.

C) -age, -ful, -ence.

D) -ist, -ism, -ite.

E) -anti, -dom, -ful.

188. Barbarisms are:

A) Completely assimilated words.

B) Semantically assimilated words.

C) Partially assimilated words.

D) Words which are not assimilated.

E) Grammatically assimilated words.

189. Which of the following words are of French origin?:

A) Empty, ask, belly.

B) Afternoon, and, ask.

C) Beau, commence, chauffeur.

D) Hyena, home, husband.

E) Hippopotamus, guerilla, caftan.

190. The words chase, chieftain, chortles are borrowings from:

A) Latin.

B) Indian.

C) Spanish.

D) Parisian French.

E) Scandinavian.

191. Which of the following words are native English?:

A) Vacuum, exist, act.

B) Machine, parachute, valley.

C) Xylophone, epoch, chemist.

D) Confetti, macaroni, tobacco.

E) Summer, hope, life.

192. The loan words husband, fellow, table, chair, figure are:

A) Partially assimilated words.

B) Completely assimilated words.

C) Barbarisms.

D) Unassimilated words.

E) Neologisms.

193. Which of thew given words stand for the American variant of the word flat?:

A) Mansion.

B) Hut.

C) Room.

D) Apartment.

E) Cabin.

194. Which of the following words is the British variant of the American fall?:

A) Spring.

B) Autumn.

C) Winter.

D) Summer.

E) Season.

195. According to which word-formation way the Americanisms electronic, automaniac, Gerrymander were created?:

A) Shortening.

B) Reduplication.

C) Blending or telescoping.

D) Compounding.

E) Back-formation.

196. What is the meaning of -scribe in the words transcribe, subscribe, describe, inscribe?:

A) Read.

B) Spell.

C) Say.

D) Write.

E) Print.

197. The morphemic analysis applies the method of:

A) IC's.

B) UC's.

C) Statistical analysis.

D) Structural analysis.

E) Etymological analysis.

198. Which of the following words is the case of a metaphor?:

A) The Pentagon.

B) The bonnet of the car.

C) To kick the bucket.

D) At all.

E) Tick-tack.

199. Semantic motivation is:

A) The relationship between the morphemic structure and meaning of the word.

B) A direct connection between the phonetic structure of the word and its meaning;

C) A direct connection between the central and marginal meanings of the word.

D) A connection between the root and affixational morphemes.

E) A connection between the components of the word.

200. " I'll poet him! ", " I'll orange your face! ", " to girl the boat". Are the underlined verbs the cases of:

A) Traditional conversion.

B) Occasional conversion.

C) Metaphor.

D Metonymy.

E) Humor.

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