Take Home Exam for Final Assignment 2020-2021/Second

EL120: English Phonetics and Linguistics

All Branches
Cut-Off Date : 5th June Cut off Time: ##:#

Total Marks : 50 Marks Duration: 48 Hours

Contents:

Warnings and Declaration…………………………………………………………….……………………………………………………………..1

Question1 (10 marks)...…………………………………………………………………………………………………….………………………..2
Question 2 (10 marks)…………………………………………………………………………………………………………….……………….……3
Question 3 (5 marks) ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………4
Question 4 (5 marks)…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….5
Question 5 (10 marks)…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….6
Question 6 (5 marks)…...……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 7
Question 7(5 marks)…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….8
TOTAL: (50 Marks) ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………

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Name of Student: Ali Ahmad Alkhamis

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Date: 3 June 2021

ANSWER ALL THE QUESTIONS

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 Part A

Question 1: (10 marks)

What Maxim(s) are violated (flouted) in the following dialogues: Explain your answer and state the
reason why the maxim(s) are flouted:

1. Teacher to a student who arrives late more than ten minutes to the class meeting:

• Teacher: Wow! You’re such a punctual fellow! Welcome to the class.

• Student: Sorry sir! It won’t happen again.

The teacher is being sarcastic towards the student of being a ”punctual fellow” as a joke knowing
that the student is late to class, adding the fact that the teacher acted as if he was surprised by the
student for being punctual, suggesting that it was probably not the first that the student was late
which is why the teacher flouted the maxim of quality also also giving a clear indication of he meant.
In response, the student apologized and promised that it would not happen again also indicating
that he understood the intentions of the teacher’s sarcasm flouting the maxim of relation by saying
“Sorry sir!”

1. • A: Do you like John and Kate?

• B: Kate is fun.
The response of B was straightforward and clear about the one of subjects being mentioned in the
conversation while at the same time eliminating the other, as B’s answer was simply “Kate is fun”
implying that John isn’t fun or is not like by B. In this case it is implicated that B flouted the maxim of
Quantity, due to the fact that the answer was short by stressed only Kate without mentioning John
in order to avoid an awkward unpleasant conversation.

Question 2: (10 marks)

Write a paragraph (100 words) explaining how new words are formed (word formation
processes). Support your answer with examples.

Words in the English language can be formed in various ways using different methods. Those
methods are affixation, acronyms, blending, compounding and clipping. Affixation is the inclusion
of letters to the beginning of the word (prefix) or the end of the word (suffix), those can also contain
bound morphemes, e.g. the word [unintelligent] is compounded of [un + intelligent] affixing the first
unit to the second creating a “prefix”, while a word such as [endless] affixes [end] with [less] making
it a suffix. Then there are “acronyms” which abbreviate different words into a series of capitalized

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letters making them one word, such as ETA (estimated time of arrival). The blending method is the
infusion of two words into one e.g. the word climax is the fusion of [culmination + apex]. Adding
more than one word to form a singular word is called compounding, which consist of three
varieties, solid, hyphenated, and open. An example of a solid compound is “wheelchair” which
consists of the words [wheel + chair], hyphenated has a hyphen between the words as seen in [off-
street], whereas open also consists of two words but with no hyphen while also remains as a word,
such as time machine. Finally, clipping is the opposite of compounding in the sense that a unit is
removed from a word to form another single word such as hippo in hippopotamus.

Part B

Question 3: (5 marks)

Give a full morphological analysis of the following words, indicating the type of morpheme (bound
or free, prefix or suffix and derivational or inflectional)

1. Misinterpretation
Mis [bound morpheme derivational prefix], interpret [free], tion [bound derivational suffix]
2. Shortly
Short (free) Y (bound derivational suffix)
3. Dragged
Drag (free), ed (bound inflectional suffix)
4. Author
Author (free)
5. Bigger
Big (free) er (bound inflectional suffix)

Question 4: (5 marks)

State the word class of the underlined words: (for example: a noun, verb, conjunction, etc.)

1. She is really nice, but (conjunction) she can be nasty (adjective) occasionally.
2. The (Article) empty cup (noun) was washed.
3. We (pronoun) walked home slowly (adverb - adverb of manner).
4. The man I respect (verb) most is Bill (noun) .
5. This castle was built in (preposition) the 12th century (noun).

Question 5: (10 marks)

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 a. Underline the
predicate in the following sentences. b. Put the verb between brackets and c. identify
its type.

1. I can't (eat) this steak. - mono-transitive verb

2. The taxi has (arrived). - intransitive verb
3. We have (painted) the house white. Complex-transitive verb
4. He (handed) his wife the letter - ditransitive verb
5. The sea (looks) beautiful.- linking verb

Question 6: (5 marks)

Identify the word formation process of the following words, e.g. clipping, acronyms, blending,
compounding and affixation:

1. Fridge (clipping)
2. Brunch (blending)
3. Double deck (Compounding/open)
4. LOL (Acronyms )
5. Cooking (Affixation - suffix)

Question 7: (5 marks)

Are the following statements True or False: Correct the false statements.

1. A linking verb can be followed by an object complement .

False - linking verb is followed by word or phrase is called subject compliment

1. A Complex sentence
includes two independent clauses that are joined by 'and', 'or', or 'but'.

False - complex sentence includes a dependent clause and an independent clause

2. In Cooperative
Principle, the maxim of relation is the relevance of the current topic of conversation.

True

3. "The idea of spending

his life in prison horrified him". The noun HEAD of the underlined Noun phrase is "his life”.

False - The noun head of the underlined noun phrase is “prison”.

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 4. Observing politeness
norms is so essential in our daily discourse, formal or informal

True

GOOD LUCK

End of Assessment

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