Republic of the Philippines

Laguna State Polytechnic University

Province of Laguna
Los Baños Campus
GRADUATE STUDIES AND APPLIED RESEARCH
Second Semester, Academic Year 2020- 2021

COURSE CODE: English 204

COURSE TITLE: Structure of English
PROFESSOR: Dr. Myrna O. Medrano
PRESENTOR: Ludielyn S. Mahinay
COURSE: MAEd- English

(Final Examination)
o Look for local or foreign newspapers/periodicals
o Choose a particular news item/topic then analyze the word-formation process applied.
o This final exam will be shared with your classmates tomorrow from 8 am to 12 noon

NEWS ARTICLE:

Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, April 22) — At least five COVID-19 patients die daily in the
Philippine General Hospital, its spokesman said Wednesday.
In a virtual briefing PGH spokesperson Dr. Jonas del Rosario said this has been the scenario for
the last three weeks, sometimes even reaching 7 to 10 deaths a day, as their bed utilization
reaches 90% occupancy.

“Ang aming pong census as of today ay mayroon po kaming 220 na admitted patients out of the
250 beds po na mayroon ang PGH,” he explained.

[Translation: Based on our census as of today, we have 220 admitted patients out of the 250 beds
that the PGH has.]

Del Rosario specifically mentioned that 30 intensive care unit beds and 25 emergency room beds
for COVID-19 patients are always occupied. He noted that most of these are being used by
severe and critical patients which is why some cannot be admitted immediately and have no
choice but to wait.

Despite getting better numbers compared to weeks ago prior to the implementation of strict
quarantine restrictions, he said their present situation is dire. He notes that during the same
period last year, the facility had less than 100 Covid patients. He believes an extension of the
modified enhanced community quarantine could help improve the situation to lessen the
transmission of the virus, he noted.

“There is a little bit of an improvement, but I would say it’s not yet that significant… I believe
po kung the numbers will show na halos walang dent na nagagawa (if the numbers show that a
dent has not been made)… extension of the MECQ to us I think will probably help,” Del Rosario
said.

The government placed Metro Manila, along with areas, under MECQ until the end of the month
due to the spike in COVID-19 cases. Prior to this a stricter ECQ was put in place for two weeks.

To date, the country total number of infections has reached 962,307, with more than 116,000
currently sick patients.

Meanwhile, average bed occupancy is at 52.3% based on latest government data. For Metro
Manila, the rate is at 65.7% with 48 facilities classified under critical level, 23 at high risk, 19 at
moderate, and 64 safe.

WORD FORMATION ANALYSIS:

This paper presents the word formation processes found in the news article above. The presentor
found 4 compounding, 1 conversion, 3 derivation, 1 acronym, 4 initialism, 2 affixation, 5
borrowing, 1 clipping, 9, inflection, and none for suppletion, eponymy, reduplication, back-
formation, blending, and coinage.

WORD FORMATION PROCESSES WORDS USED

1. Compounding
By this process two or more than two words spokesman- spokes+man
are combined together to create a single spokesperson- spokes+person
word, having a single idea and function. sometimes- some+times
meanwhile- mean+while
2. Conversion To date- noun(date) to verb
This refers to the change of function or parts
of speech Typically conversion is made
from “noun to verb” of a word without
adding an affix.
3. Suppletion -
4. Derivation Utilization- utilize+ation
Produces a new word on the basis of an Improvement- improve+ment
existing word. Admitted- admit+ed
Add affix and change parts of speech
(same meaning)
5. Eponymy -
6. Reduplication -
7. Acronym COVID- Corona Virus Disease
These words are formed with the initial
letters or each of the major parts of a word
or a longer phrase.
In language, an acronym is pronounced as a
single word
8. Initialism PGH- Philippine General Hospital
just a sequence of individual letters, CNN- Cable News Network
ECQ- Enhanced Community Quarantine
MECQ- Modified Enhanced Community
Quarantine
9. Affixation briefing- (brief+ing) meeting
It is a word formation process wherein an critical- (critic+al)
affix is attached to a root (also called stem;
base) to form a new word.
Nabago ang meaning
10. Back-Formation -
11. Blending -
12. Borrowing Census- Latin
This refers to the words adopted from other Quarantine, Government, country – French
languages. Data- Greek
13. Coinage -
14. Clipping Spox- spokesman/spokesperson
As the name suggests, clipping is the word
formation process in which a word is
reduced to a shorter form.
15. Inflection reaching, reaches, reached
Modifies a word to express different patients
grammatical categories such as tense, mood, weeks
voice, aspect, person, number, gender and deaths
case. explained
beds
stricter

REFERENCE:

 CNN Philippines. (2021). 5 COVID-19 patients die daily in PGH as bed occupancy
nears full utilization, spox says. Retrieved from
https://cnnphilippines.com/news/2021/4/22/5-COVID-19-patients-die-daily-in-PGH-bed-
occupancy-nears-full-utilization.html