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PART B. EXERCISES...........................................................................................
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CHAPTER I. FUNDAMENT
FUNDAMENTALS ALS..............................................................................
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CHAPTER II. THE ETYMOLOGY OF ENGLISH WORDS..................................... .............................................
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CHAPTER III. MORPHEME STRUCTURE OF ENGLISH WORDS................................... ...................................1616
CHAPTER IV. WORD – BUILDING....................................................................
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CHAPTER V. SEMANTICS – MEANING.......................................................
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CHAPTER VI. HOMONYM
HOMONYMS S.................................................................................
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CHAPTER VII. SYNONYMS AND ANTONYMS..........................................
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CHAPTER VIII. SET EXPRESSION - PHRASEOL PHRASEOLOGY OGY....................................................
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Eg. Bird, boy, girl, lady, woman, lord, apple, dog, bread, etc.
2.1. Borrowed words (borrowing / loan words):
- Definition: Borrowed words are those taken from other languages and modified in phonetic
shape, graphic, morphological…according
morphological…according to standards of the English language.
- Borrowed words can be taken from various languages such as: Latin, French, Russian, Greek,
Spanish, etc.
Eg. + Latin: butter, plum, beef…
+ Spanish: tomato, potato…
+ French: desire, adore, baron, count…
2.3. International words:
- International words are words of identical origin that occurs in several languages as a result of
simultaneous
simultaneous and successive borrowing from one ultimate source: Football, email, internet.
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Eg. books
ooks “-
“-s”
s” is gra
ram
mmatic
aticaal morp
rphe
hem
me
- Lexical morphemes: are content words.
Eg. bboooks “book” is
is le
lexical mo
morpheme
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Q.6. What’s allomorph? State the kind of allomorph? Classify the morphological
conditioned allomorph?
6.1. Definition:
Allomorphs are various phonemic shapes that represent the same morpheme. An allomorph is a
structure which is similar semantically
semantically but phonological
phonologically
ly different.
Eg. /z/, /s/, /iz/ - are allomorph of {s}
6.2. Kinds of allomorph:
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- Types of metonymy:
+ Spatial relations: the name of place is used for the people occupying it.
Eg. chair means chairman
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+ Causal relations:
State or properties serves as names for objects and people possessing them.
Eg. youth, authoritied, forces…
Name of action serves to name result of the action.
Eg. kill (O.E – means ‘hit on the head’)
Emotion may be named by movements that accompanied them.
Eg. to start, to frown…
+ Symbolic relation:
Instrument
Instrument for the product.
Eg. hand for handwriting
Material for particular article.
Eg. glass, iron, nickel…
+ Functional change: the shift is between names of things substituting one another inhuman
practice.
Common name derived from proper one, named after the inventor.
Eg. macadam, diesel…
Physical, technical units are named after great scientists.
Eg. volt, watt, ohm, ampare, farad…
Name of establishment is used not only for the establishment itself but also its staff or the
policy.
Eg. the White House, the Pentagon, the Downing Street…
Geographical
Geographical names used for goods originating where there are axceedingly numerous.
Eg. china, bikini, boston…
Garments came to be known by the name of those who brought them into fashion.
Eg. mackintosh, wellingtons, CK…
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+ Comb
Combine
inedd wi
with
th dif
differ
ferenc
ences
es in lexic
lexico-g
o-gram
ramma
matic
tical
al cla
class
ss and the
there
refore
fore dif
differ
ferent
ent in
grammatical
grammatical function and distribution.
+ Based on independent formation from the same base by homonymous morpheme.
Q.15. What is synonym? What are the criteria of synonym? State the types of synonym?
- Definition: Synonym can be defined as 2 or more words of the same language, belonging to the
same part of speech and possessing one or more identical or nearly identical denotational meaning,
interchangeable, at least in some contexts, without any considerable alteration in denotational
meani
meaning,
ng, bu
butt differ
differing
ing in morphe
morphemic
mic compo
composit
sition
ion,, ph
phone
onemi
micc sha
shape
pe,, shade
shadess of me
meani
aning,
ng,
connotation, affective value, style, valency and idiomatic use.
- Criteria of synonym:
+ Inter
Intercha
change
ngeab
abili
ility:
ty: only
only in som
somee conte
contexts
xts syn
synony
onym
m can be change
changedd wit
withou
houtt any
alteration in denotational meaning.
+ Substitution: only in some contexts, and in others the substitution may destroy the
precision.
+ Notional criterion: synonyms convey the same notion but different shade of meaning or
stylistic charateristic
charateristic..
- Types of synonyms:
+ Absolute (total) synnonym: the member of synonymic group can replace each other in
any given context without any alteration in denotational meaning. This is rare in vocabulary.
Eg. only ‘noun’ can total replaces ‘substantive’.
+ Contextual synonym: is similar in meaning only under some specific distributional
conditions.
Eg. to buy
buy ticket ≈ to get ticket.
ticket.
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- Types of antonyms:
+ Absolute antonyms: formulae (A,B – antonyms; X,Y – the words they serve to qualify
respectively).
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A and (or) B = all. Eg. good and bad; pros and cons
Not A bu
butt (on
(on the
the ccon
ontr
trar
ary)
y) B. eg.
eg. iitt iiss nnot
ot bi
bigg but
but sm
smal
alll
A or B. eg. right or wrong
X is A, and Y (on the contrary) is B.
eg. unity is strong, and seperation
seperation is weak; the whole is big, onsel
onselff is little
+ Derivational antonyms:
antonyms: the affixes in them serve to deny the quality stated in stem.
Negative prefixes:
prefixes: dis-, il-, im-, in-, un-, ir-.
Eg. polite – impolite; courage – discourage
Suffix “-less”.
Eg. useful – useless; hopeful – hopeless
Q.19. What are the main characteristics of Phraseological units (Pus)? How can PUs can be
distinguished from Free word groups (FWGs)?
19.1. Charateristics:
- Double sense: the current mening of constituent words build up certain picture but the atual
meaning (hidden one) of the whole unit has little or nothing to do with that picture, it creates an
entirely new image.
- Using PUs with care espec
especially
ially to foreigner to aviod misunderst
misunderstanding.
anding.
19.2. The differnces between the PUs and FWGs:
- Semantic criterion:
+ FWG has one sense meaning which can be total meaning of the constituents expressing in the
utterances.
+ PUs has double sense (real and imagine), it can be total or partial change with the meaning of the
constituents.
- Strutural criterion:
+ Restrict
Restriction
ion in substitution:
PUs convey single notion, the constitution can’t be changed – if they are changed, the total
meaning will be changed.
FWGs:: the constituents can be changed without any considerable change in total meaning.
FWGs
+ Reatriction in introducing any additional components
components:
FWGs: such change can be made without affecting the general meaning of the utterance.
PUs: no additional components can be introduced.
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V + ppos
ostp
tpos
osit
itiv
ivee eg.
eg. to
to giv
givee up
up
V + aand
nd/o
/orr + V eg.
eg. ttoo pic
pickk aand
nd choo
choose
se,, ttoo kkil
illl oorr cur
curee
V + (one
(one’s)
’s) + N + ((pre
prep)
p) eg.
eg. to snap
snap one’s
one’s finge
fingers
rs at
V + one + N eg. to give one the bird ‘to fire smb’
V + sub
subord
ordina
inate
te ccla
lause
use eg.
eg. to ssee
ee how
how tthe
he la
land
nd li
lies
es ((to
to ddisc
iscove
overr the sta
state
te of aaffa
ffairs
irs))
- Functioning like adjectives:
Adj + and
and + aadj
dj eg.
eg. saf
safee aand
nd soun
sound,
d, hi
high
gh and
and mig
might
htyy
(As) + adj + as + N eg. as old as the
the hills, as m
maad aass hatter
- Functioning like adverbs:
N+N eg. tooth and nail
Prep
rep + N eg
eg.. bbyy hheear
art,
t, of cour
course
se
Adv + preposition + adj + N eg. on
once in a blue m
mooon
Prepp + N + or + N eg. by
Pre by hook
hook or by crook
crook
Conj + cla
claus
usee eg. be
befo
forre one
one can
can ssaay ja
jack R
Rob
obiinso
nson
- Funtioning like prepositions:
Prep
rep + N + pre
prep eg.
eg. iinn ccon
onse
sequ
quen
ence
ce of
- Functioning like interjections: eg. god bless you, take your time
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PART B. EXERCISES
CHAPTER I. FUNDAMENTALS
E 3. What is the external structure (morphological structure) of the word irresistible? What is the
internal structure (semantic structure) of this word?
The external structure of the word irresistible consists of morphe
morphemes:
mes: the prefixes ir-, re-,
the root sist, and the adjective-for
adjective-forming
ming suffix –ible.
The internal structure of the word: ir- means not, re- means again, sist meaningless, -ible
means capable.
capable. The word means ‘‘so
so strong that it can’t be stopped or resisted’.
E 5. Explain why the word blackboard can be considered a unity and why the combination of
words black board doesn’t possess such a unity?
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E 3. Give adjectives of Latin origin corresponding to the following nouns: eg. lip – labial.
Noun Adj Noun Adj
Myoeuth
E Ocraullar Hoxrse
O Eqouvine
B
Tongue Lingual Sheep Ovine
Nose Nasal Mother Maternal
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B F F B B F F F F B F B
Loneliness assistant intervene
F B F B B B
Contradic = {contra-} {-dict}, the base {-dict} is bound base, eg. predict, dictionary
Telephone = {tele-} {-phone}, the base {-phone} is bound base, eg. homophone, headphone
Apprehensible = {ap-} {-pre} {-hens} {-ible}, the base {-hens}is bound base, eg. comprehensive,
comprehensible
Regress = {re-} {-gress}, the base {-gress} is bound base, eg. congress
Deceiver = {de-} {-ceiv} {-er}, the base {-ceiv} is bound base, eg. receive, perceive
Department = {de-} {-part} {-ment}, the base {-part} is free base, eg. apartment
Intervene = {inter-} {-vene}, the base {-vene} is bound base, eg. convene, subvene
Consent = {con-} {-sent}, the base {-sent} is bound base, eg. resent, assent
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E 2. State the origin and explain the meaning of the suffixes in the following words
Childhood, friendship, freedom, toward, backward, brotherly, rider, granny, teacher, aunty,
hierling, village, hindrance, drunkard, limitation, reinforcement,
reinforcement, cheerfulness
cheerfulness..
1. Native suffixes:
- hood: state or quality of , condition
- ship: state or quality of , condition
- dom: condition or state of
- ward: in the direction of
- ly: in the way mantioned, having the quality of
- er: denoting agent, residence of, device
- y: full of, having quality of
- ing: denoting agent, action, fact
- ness: the quality, state or charater of
- ard: having the quality
2. Borrowing suffixes:
- age: action or result of action (Latin)
- ance: state or charater (Latin)
- ion: action or process (Latin)
- ment: action, process (Latin)
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E 5. Form some adjectives from noun stems by adding the suffix – ish. Explain the meaning of the
derivatives.
Idiomatic
Non-idiomatic
Total change Partial change
E 2. Identify the neutral compounds in the word combinations given below and write them out in
three columns: simple neutral compounds, neutral derived compounds and neutral contracted
compounds.
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workday butter-fingers
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E 5. Form as many compounds as possible, using the follwing stems as their first component:
Grass-, hand-, ink-, horse-, mother-, pack-, steam-, steel-
Grass-: grassroots, grasswidow, grasshopper
Hand-: handwriting, handicraft, handbag,
h andbag, handball, handbrake
Ink-: inkpot, inkbottle, inkpad, inkwell
Horse-: horsepower, horseback, horsebean, horse opera, horse race, horse-tail
Mother-: mother-in-law, mother-of-thousands, motherland, mother tongue, mother-to-be
Pack-: pack horse, pack saddle, pack job, pack rat, pack train
Steam-: steam engine, steam bath, steamturbine, steam jacket
Steel-: steelworker, steel band, steelhead
E 6. Form as many compounds as possible, using the following stems as their second components:
-man, -berry,- woman, - boy,- room, -looking
-man: salesman, policeman, businessman, spokesman
-berry: blackberry, strawberry, cranberry
-woman: policewoman, businesswoman, chairwoman
-boy: pot-boy, cowboy, post-boy
-room: livingroom, bathroom, bedroom
-looking: good looking, forward-looking
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E 2. Compare the meaning of the words in the bold type with that of the corresponding nouns.
- to head an army: means to lead the noun head – part of body.
- to toe a mark: means to make or press the noun toe – part of body.
- to eye a foe: means to watch the noun eye – part of body.
- to chair a candidate:
candidate: mea
means
ns to point the noun chair – name of place.
- to table a resolution: means to discuss the no
nouun table – name of place.
- to foot a stocking: means to wear the noun foot – part of body.
- to mind a command: means to to no
notice the noun mind – part of body.
- to fish a com
compl
plim
imeent
nt:: m
mea
eans
ns to tr
tryy to
to get
get th
thee nnou
ounn fish – name of animal.
- to stone a martyr: means to kill the noun stone – name of tool.
- to dress a woun
wound:
d: me
means
ans to cov
cover
er or wear
wear the nou
nounn dress – name of container.
IV.3.2. Shortening
Write out in full the following shortened words. Define the type of shortening.
- N.C.O: Non Commissioned Officer acronym
- pub: public house ellipsis
- ad: advertisement final clipping
- fancy: fantasy contraction – rhythm
- H-bomb: Hydrogen bomb initial abbreviation
- V-day: Victory day initial abbreviation
- US
USSR: Un
Union ooff S
Sooviet S
Soocialist R
Reepublics acronym
- UNO: United Nations Organizartion acronym
- UNESCO: United Nations Educational, acronym
Scientific and Cultural Organizat
Organizaton
on
- mike: microphone shortening spoken language
- lab: laboratory final clipping
- FI
FIFA: In
International F
Foootball As
Association acronym
(Fédération
(Fédération Internationale de Football Association)
Association)
- USA: United Nations of America acronym
- ml: millilitre acronym
- UFO: Unidentified Flying Object acronym
- TEFL: Teaching (of) English as a acronym
Foreign Language
- UEFA
UEFA:: U
Union
nion of Euro
Europea
peann F
Footb
ootball
all Asso
Associat
ciations
ions acro
acronym
nym
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V.2. Metonymy
E 1. Comment on the type and meaning of the following cases of metonymy:
- sandwich, mackintosh, boycott, hooligan: thing known by the name of person who brought it to
public/fashion.
- che
chevio
viot,t, made
madeira
ira,, cha
champ
mpag
agne,
ne, bo
borde
rdeaux
aux,, Ha
Hava
vana:
na: geogr
geograph
aphica
icall nam
namee is use
usedd for goods
goods
originating from place where they are exceedingly numerous.
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VII.2. Antonyms
E 1. Give
Give anton
antonym
ymss to the follow
following
ing word
words.
s. Ar
Arran
range
ge them
them in three
three colum
columns:
ns: deriva
derivatio
tional
nal
antonyms (eg. careful – careless), absolute antonyms (eg. slow – fast) and mixed (eg. correct –
incorrect, wrong).
Alert, discord, alive, ugly, artless, appearance, assist, arrange, courage, attentive, descend, safety,
consistent, aware, convinent, competent, continue, preceding, correct, sufficent, frequent, distinct,
expensive, hostile, faithful, wet, enemy, temporary, legal, lower, kind, normal, painful, encourage.
Encourage - discourage
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E 2. Explain whether the semantic change in the following phraseological units are complete or
partial.
1. Cast pearls before swine.
Complete change. Đàn gảy tai trâu.
2. Go on a fool’s errand.
Complete change. Có tiếng mà không có miếng.
3. To eat humber pie.
Partial change. Ngậm bồ hòn làm ngọt / Nếm mật nằm gai.
4. To be in the same boat.
Partial change. Cùng hội cùng thuyền.
5. Tell it to the marine.
Complete change. Nói cho ma nghe.
6. To stick to one’s gun.
Partial change. Giữ vững lập trường.
7. To beat about the bush.
Partial change. Vòng vo tam quốc.
8. To throw cold water on smb.
Partial change. Dội gáo nước lạnh.
9. To pour oil on fire.
Partial change. Đổ thêm dầu vào lửa.
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E 3. Complete the following phrases so that they make English proverbs and phraseological units.
1. a bird in hand
A bird in hand is worth two in the bush. Chớ thả mồi bắt bóng.
2. the devil makes work
The devil makes work for idle hands. Nhàn cư vi bất thiện.
3. kill two birds
Kill two birds with one stones. Một mũi tên trúng hai đích.
4. there’s no fool
There’s no fool like an old fool. Chẳng có cái dại nào như cái dại nào.
5. to eat one’s cake
To eat one’s cake and have it. Vẹn cả đôi đường.
6. the die
The die is cast. Bút sa gà chết.
7. the early bird
The early bird catches the worm. Trâu chậm uống nước đục.
8. between the cup and the lip
There is a many slips between the cup and the lip. Miếng ăn đến miệng còn rơi mất.
9. the cap
If the cap fits, wear it. Có tật giật mình.
10. spilt milk
It’s no use crying over spilt milk. Thôi đừng tiếc rẻ con gà quạ tha.
E 4. Complete the following similes, using words from the list below.
a ditch-water, a post, a bear, day, nails, thieves, fiddles, bee, egg, bat, brass, fish, needle, gun,
grave.
1. as dull as… As dull as a ditch-water. (Nhạt như nước ốc)
2. as fit as… As fit as a fiddle. (Khoẻ như vâm)
3. as sharp as… As sharp as a nee
needle. ((S
Sắc như ddaao)
4. as surly as
as… As surly as
as a bear. (Gắt như mắm tôm)
5. as ssil
ileent as… As sil
sileent as ggra
rave
ve.. ((K
Kín như
như bbưưng / L
Lặn
ặngg nnhư
hư tờ)
6. as deaf as
as… As deaf aass a post. (Điếc đặc điếc lòi)
7. as mute as… As mute as a fish. (Câm như hến)
8. as clear aass… As clear aass day. (Rõ như ban ngày)
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9. as thi
hicck as… As thi
hicck as thi
hieeves. (Ă
(Ănn ý / Hoà hợp)
10. as busy as… As busy as a bee. ((B
Bận rộn)
11. as sure
sure as… As sure
sure as a gguun. (C
(Chắ
hắcc như
như đinh
đinh đó
đóng
ng cột)
ột)
12.
12. as
as bol
boldd as…
as… As bbol
oldd as
as bra
brass
ss.. ((T
Trơ tr
tráo
áo như
như gáo
gáo múc
múc ddầu
ầu / Mặt
Mặt dày
dày m
mày
ày dạn)
dạn)
13. as full as…As full as an egg. (Chật như nêm)
14. as har
hard as… As hard as nai
nails. (Cứ
(Cứng nhắc
hắc)
15. as blind as… As blind as bat. (Mù tịt)
ịt)
E 5. Compare the meaning of the expressions given in the two columns below. State which of them
are phraseological.
# Phraseological units
1. to have fling at smb/sth: speak in a
To have one’s fling: to be a playboy.
ironical voice.
To lose one’s heart to smb: to fall in love
2. to lose heart: to be cowardice
cowardice..
with smb.
34.. to
to thhav
aave
keecaarw
eord
: cdarw
wor efith:
wituh:
l. ttoo tal
talkk to sm
smb.b. T
Too tha
akve
e cword
have arerds
wo osf w
: tith
wit ohlosm
okb:afquar
smb: terarre
qu ,m
rellinw
dith
. h sm
wit smb.
b.
5. in a family way: natural. In the family way: to be pregnant.
6. in and out: to go in and out. Ins and outs: specific.
7. a matt atter of fac
factt: an
an oobbvio
vious thi
thing
ng.. As a mattetter ooff fa
fact:
ct: ob
obvious
ious..
8. before long: not long. Long before: very long.
9. behind time: late. Behind the times: backward.
10. noth
nothin
ingg in common: diff
diffeere
rent
nt.. Nothi
othing
ng out of common:
on: exact
xactlly the
the sam
same.
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b. bone, mind
Bone:
- to be on one’s bone: túng quẫn.
- to be bred in the bone: ngấm sâu vào máu.
Mind:
- to cause smb to mind: nhớ lại.
- to keep one’s mind on doing sth: chú ý làm gì.
- to change one’s mind: thay đổi ý kiến.
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