Syntactic compounds are formed

a) by juxtaposition of two stems

b) by linking vowel or consonant between the stems

c) by contracting of one of the stems

d) from segments of speech preserving in their structure numerous traces of syntagmatic relations

e) by other means.

 

77) Which of the following words are syntactical compounds?

a) Jack-of-all-trades, good-far-nothing, mother –in-law, lily-of-the-valley

b) blackboard, snowboard, bedroom

c) V-day,H-bag,FBI-agent, T-shirt

d) TV-set, mother-in-law, blackboard

e) lady-killer,film-goer, honey-mooner

 

78) What type of word-building takes place in the words “ ping-pong, chiet-chat, walkie- talkie, riff-raff”

a) word-composition

b) blending

c) back-formation

d) reduplication

e) other

 

79) Which of the following words are the cases of reduplication?

a) snowball, word-group

b) UNO, SALT, forget-me-not

c) walkie-talkie, riff-raff, chit-chat

d) mountain, weather, paper

e) to baby-sit, to force-land, to blood-transfuse, to fingerprint

 

80) Which of the following words are the examples of back-formation?

a) to baby-sit, to force-land, to blood-transfuse, to fingerprint

b) deli, divi, afro

c) snowhite, pleasure, good-looking

d) good-for-nothing, no-goodnik

e) talkaphone, walkie-talkie

 

81) A word having …. is called polysemantic

a) one meaning

b) several meanings

c) no meaning at all

d) two suffixes

e) no suffix