词汇学笔记文档5

Questions and tasks

•What is affixation? What is its alternative name?

2. What is the difference between prefixation and suffixation?

3.what is the best way to classify prefixes? Why?

4.Form negatives with each of the following words by using one of these prefixes

dis-, il-, im-, in- ,ir-, non-, un-

smoker capable practical obey security relevant mature ability officially willingness legal agreement logical loyal convenient athletic

(un- and non- are both negative prefixes, but the former is more emphatic than the latter. Non- is usually opposed to un- in expressing a binary contrast, e. g. a nonscientific book is one not concerned with science, it may be a novel or a biography, while un- denotes the opposite quality of the adjective base, so an unscientific book is one on a low scientific level. Words with Un- are more absolute and more literally related to the base than those with in-; “un-Rule” is not as productive for adjectives composed of just one morpheme as for adjectives that are

themselves derived from verbs, e.g. unsimplified, undistinguished, etc. )

5. Turn the following nouns and adjectives into verbs with –en, -ify, -ize and then choose them to

fill in the blanks in the sentences that follow.

hard horror modern memory false

Apology deep glory sterile length intensify beauty fat sympathy

•He ___for interrupting her.

•She tried to _____ her room with posters and plants.

• A study has been ordered into the feasibility of ____ the airport’s main runway by two hundred meters.

•However much they _____, they all felt it was her fault.

•Soya is excellent food ____ cattle.

•She laughed and that seemed to ____ her voice.

•Forty thousand pound had been spent on _____ the station.

6. Each of the following sentences contains a word printed in italics. Complete the sentence

by using this word to form a noun to refer to a person.

If you are employed by a company, you are one of its ____.

A ____ is someone whose job is politics.

The ___ in a discussion are the people who participate in it.

A woman who works as a ____ does the same job as a waiter

The person who conducts an orchestra or choir is called the ____.

A _____ is someone who earns their living by playing the piano.

7. Match column A with column B and give two examples for each.

A B Examples

trans- before ___________

mono- over, above ___________

super- one ___________

auto- between ___________

sub- self ___________

mal- little, small ___________

inter- bad, badly ___________