Assignment 1

Christine ⾼翊瑛 B10102010

1.

a) Hip hopped: meaning that they have been listening, or producing, the music of hip
hop for the whole night.

b) Dog-teamed: meaning that he walked across the Arctic with many dogs following him.

c) Unicycled: meaning that they arrived Oregon by unicycles.

d) Solar-panelled: meaning that he put some solar panels on his roof.

e) Hula hooped: meaning that he played hula hoop in the park.

f) Tesla’d: meaning that they drove Tesla to Toronto.

g) Ajax: meaning that they clean the sink with Ajax the cleaning product.

h) Windexed: meaning that she cleaned the window with windex the glass cleaner.

i) Dreadlock: meaning that this person should make his/her haircut a dreadlock.

j) Carton: meaning to put the eggs into a carton.

2.

a) I homeworked on my computer last night.

b) They Mid-Autumn-festivalled at their grandparents’ house.

c) She birthdayed her boyfriend by a handmade gift.

d) The singer freestyled a song for his fans.

e) The team YouTubed tons of cat videos.

3.

Possible words for English: frall, sproke, ube.

The acquaint words of English:

a) Frall: frail, frill, fall

b) Sproke: stroke, spoke

c) Flube: ute, ume

4.

Four possible words for English: moob, crose, lopse, prook

Four words that are not possible to be English: klopr, mrart, fpri, nras

5.

Possible sentences in English:

a)  Binh’s mother left himself with nothing to eat.

d)  Colin made Rhiannon a sandwich.

e)  Is the dog sleeping the bone again?

h)  Ahmed cleaned up the garden.

f)  Adisa prepared Zena a cake.

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Unacceptable sentences:

b)  Miriam is eager to talk to. / Miriam is eager to talk. (Preposition should not be put in
the end of a sentence, and it also confuses the meaning.)

c)  This is the man who I took a picture of. / This is the man of whom I took a picture.
(Preposition should not be put in the end of a sentence.)

g)  Ahmed cleaned the garden up. / Ahmed cleaned up the garden. (Preposition should
not be put in the end of a sentence.)

i)  Ahmed cleaned up it. / Ahmed cleaned it up. (When there is a phrasal verb and a
following pronoun, the latter should be put between the verb and the preposition.)

j)  I hope you to leave. / I wish you to leave. (“Hope" means that the incident has not
happen, while “wish” means that the incident has happened, and the speaker wishes it
had rather not happened.)

k)  That you likes liver surprises me. / That you like liver surprises me. (Subject-verb
agreement.)

6.

a)  He doesn’t know about the race.

b)  You were out when I called.

c)  There are twenty horses registered in the show.

d)  That window’s broken, so be careful.

e)  Jim and I are gonna go campin’ this weekend.

f)  With whom did you come?

g)  I had seen the parade last week.

h)  He has been lost in the woods for ten days.

i)  My car needs to be cleaned all ’cause of the rain.

j)  Julie has got none.

k)  Somebody left their books on the train.

l)  Murray hurt himself in the game.

7.

That belongs to you. It’s yours.

That belongs to him. It’s his.

That belongs to her. It’s hers.

That belongs to us. It’s ours.

That belongs to them. It’s theirs. 


What process in language change appears to be responsible for the form mines?

A: Dialect.