Ministry of higher and secondary special education of the republic uzbekistan state world languages university

YOU column.
3b. Interview your partner and write his/her answers in your partner column. 
3c. compare your answers with your partner's answers. 
Answers can be varied. 
►Home activities 
Exercise#1. Look at the text about similarities and differences of word -
formation in compared languages. There are 12 mistakes in it. Find them and 
replace them with the correct words from the box below. 
 
9.origin 3. independent 1.prefixing 5.bound 7.negative
2.full 
 8. repetition or reversal 4. proper 6.semi-bound
10.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 1.borrowing 
(
prefixing
), suffixing and prefix-suffix. For example, English prefixes are such 
particles that can be prefixed to 2.separate(
full
) words and it is mostly 
characteristic for forming verbs. Prefixes can be considered more 3.dependent 
(
independent
) 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 

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words. Prefixes used in notional words are. 4.irrelevant (
proper
) prefixes which 
are 5.semi-bound (
bound
) morphemes, e.g. 
re- (rewrite).
Prefixes used in 
functional words are 6.bound (
semi-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 7.positive(
negative
) meaning, such as : 
in- (invaluable), non- (non-
morphological), un- (unhappy)
etc.
b) prefixes denoting 8.planned (