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Final Assignment
Final Assignment
Final Assignment
1. Which of the following are compound words, which are phrases or phrasal words?
a. moonlight, moonscape, harvest moon, blue moon (as in once in a blue moon)
b. blueberry, bluebottle, greybeard, sky-blue, blue-pencil (as in they bluepencilled the script
heavily)
c. pencil case, eyebrow pencil, pencil sharpener, pencil-thin, thin air (as in they vanished
into thin air)
d. airport, Royal Air Force, air conditioning, Air France
e. silkworm, silk shirt, T-shirt
f. stick-in-the-mud, lady-in-waiting, forget-me-not, has-been, wannabe
g. overrun (verb), overrun (noun, as in a big cost overrun), undercoat (noun), undercoat
(verb, as in We undercoated the walls in white), underhand,Handover
2. Name three general characteristics of English compounds from the data below:
oak-tree drawbridge sky-blue mind-boggling
5. Phrases tend to be stressed phrase-finally, i.e. on the last word, compounds tend to be
stressed on the first element. Consider the following data, their possible stress patterns, and
their interpretations. Find another example of them!
Question:
1. Telephone
2. Autograph
3. Autobiography