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Exercise#3a. Look at the questions in the chart about ways of word formation
in English, Russian and Uzbek languages. Write your answers first in the
YOU column.
3b. Interview your partner and write his/her answers in your partner column.
Questions
You
Your partner
The
ways
ofword
formation in modern
English
The
ways
ofword
formation in modern
Russian
Five
main ways of
word
formation
in
modern Uzbek
3c. compare your answers with your partner's answers.
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Exercise#1. Look at the text about similarities and differences of word -
formation in compared languages. There are 12 mistakes are underlined in it.
Replace them with the correct words from the box below.
origin independent prefixing bound negative full
repetition or reversal proper semi-bound prefixes
The main similarity of forming words is having the way of affixing in all
compared languages. And all of them have the subtypes,
such as borrowing,
suffixing and prefix-suffix. For example, English prefixes are such particles that
can be prefixed to separate words and it is mostly characteristic for forming verbs.
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Prefixes can be considered more dependent than suffixes in English. They can be
classified according to the nature of words in which they are used: prefixes used in
notional and functional words. Prefixes used in notional
words are irrelevant
prefixes, which are semi-bound morphemes, e.g.
re- (rewrite).
Prefixes used in
functional words are bound morphemes because they
are met in the language as
words, e.g.
over- (overprotected) ( cf. over the book ).
Prefixes can be classified according to different principles:
1. Semantic classification:
a) prefixes of positivemeaning, such as:
in- (invaluable), non- (non-
morphological), un- (unhappy)
etc.
b) prefixes denoting planned actions, such as:
de- (deregulate), re- (redo), dis-
(disappear).
c) prefixes denoting time, space, degree relations, such as :
inter- (international) ,
hyper- (hypertension), ex- (ex-friend), pre- (pre-reading), over- (overhead)
etc.
2.Usage of prefixes can be classified as follows:
a) native (Germanic), such as:
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