CHS: English Translation Program

Morphology and Semantics

Fall 2023

Name:

Group:

A. Provide a printout of any news item from your choice:

Title of the Passage:

30-minute warning
A doctor inside Al-Shifa told CNN they were given 30 minutes’
warning before the Israeli operation began.

“We were ask ed to stay clear of the windows and the balconies.
We can hear the armored vehicles, they are very close to the
entrance of the complex,” Dr. Khaled Abu Samra said.

Neonatal babies in Al-Shifa hospital are in “severe danger” as

conditions deterior ate further, Gaza hospitals director general
Zaqout said.

“On evacuating the hospital…we have said numerous times there is

no place to move 40 incubators outside the hospital,” Zaqout said.

CNN could not independently confirm his assessment of the

situation. But CNN previously report ed on pictures released by

Al-Shifa that showed newborn babies taken off failed incubators
and wrapped in foil in a desperate bid to keep them alive after
oxygen supplies ran out.

Hundreds of staff and patient s are still inside Al-Shifa, according

to the most recent reports from the hospital, along with several
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thousand who have sought shelter from Israel’s air and ground

offens ive.
The Israeli statement said, “The IDF is conducting a ground
operation in Gaza to defeat Hamas and rescue our hostages. Israel
is at war with Hamas, not with the civilians in Gaza.”

Underline the following (6) words in the previous passage, write them below, and
highlight the relevant morpheme: e.g., boys

1. A noun-forming suffix

patients

2. A verb-forming suffix
deteriorate

3. An adjective-forming suffix

offensive.

4. A prefix

Neonatal

5. Two inflectional suffixes a) reported

b) asked
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Link of the passage:

https://edition.cnn.com/2023/11/15/middleeast/shifa-hospital-gaza-idf-intl/index.html