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Transcribe the highlighted sentence phonemically, mark the word stress and
underline the tonic syllable. (4 pts)
A: How was he?
B: He was in a really bad temper.
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2. Find out the odd one in each group. Explain your choice. (4 pts)
Because it is a consonant. The others are vowels.
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Although most people consider piranhas to be dangerous, they are , except in two
main situations, entirely harmless. Piranhas rarely feed on large animals, they eat
smaller fish and aquatic plants. When confronted with human, piranhas’ instinct is
to flee, not attack.
Eg: dangerous: {danger}: lexical morpheme, content word + {-ous}: lexical morpheme,
derivational suffix + {pos}: grammatical morpheme.
1. are:
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2. situations:
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3. smaller:
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4. confronted:
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4. Write ONE example for each structure, then analyse the word into morph (4
pts).
UNHAPPY = un-: bound morph, prefix + happy: free morph: content word.
a. Bound morph, prefix + free morph, content word + bound morph, inflectional suffix.
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b. Free morph, content word + bound morph, derivational suffix + bound morph,
inflectional suffix.
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c. Free morph, content word + free morph, content word + bound morph, inflectional
suffix.
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d. Free morph, content word + bound morph, derivational suffix + bound morph,
derivational suffix.
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a. In a fishing net:………………………………………………………………………………………………………
b. Too low: ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….
c. If they are hungry: …………………………………………………………………………………………………
d. Anything that enters the water: ……………………………………………………………………………
7. State if the following sentences are simple (S), complex (CX), compound (CP) or
compound complex (CC) by writing the appropriate symbols at the beginning
of each. (4 pts).
a. I would argue that the benefits of video games are outweighed by the drawback.
b. I did my grocery shopping today; consequencely, our cupboard is full.
c. Down the lane, past the house, and into the field ran the runaway horse.
d. Pam knew where the park was, so she gave us the direction.
10. Give an example for each of the following semantic concepts. (4 pts)
a. Homonymy
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b. Synonymy
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c. Hyponymy
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d. Binary antomyms
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