1.

Which of the following words may not deserve to be regarded as lexical items, and so
may not need to be listed in a dictionary of modern English? Why?

a. Breaking, Reading, and Punishing are words that not deserve to be regarded
as lexical items because their words have ing which is refers as affix
(imbuhan). Breakable, readable, and punishable also words that not deserve
to be regarded as lexical items because their words have suffix able which is
meaning (capable of being). Breakage not deserve to be regarded as lexical
items because suffix age behind word break meaning (act or condition), word
punisment not deserve to be regarded as lexical items because suffix ment
behind word punish is mean (state of being). So, words break, read, and
punish are deserve as lexical items because sufficiently unpredictable
meaning.

b. Word Conceive, receive, and perceive are deserve as lexical items because
that words again has unpredictable meaning. For every words which has suffix
such -ive => receptive & perceptive (relating to or tends toward), -able =>
conceivable, receivable, & perceivable (capable of being), and -tion =>
conception, reception, & perception (quality or condition) are not deeserve
to be regarded as lexical items.

c. Words gregarious, happy, and high are deserve as lexical items. And words
gregariousness, highness, happiness, gregariously, happily, highly not deserve
to be regarded as lexixal items because they has each suffix.

2. Construct further sets of words similar to those in Exercise 1, and try to distinguish
between the words that deserve to be recognised as lexical items and those that do not,
giving your reasons.

Image => lexical item because this word has unpredictable meaning. Then words such
as imagine, imaginable & imagination => not lexical items because the words
meaning are predictable and there has suffix behind the lexical item word.

3. Using a large dictionary that gives the dates when each word was first recorded (such
as The New Shorter Oxford English Dictionary orThe Random House Dictionary of
the English Language), find five words that were first used in the twentieth century.
 How many of them have meanings that would have been guessable by an adult
English speaker on first encounter, and how many do not?

I’m really sorry Mrs. Haira, i don’t get it.

4. Which of the following phrases (in italics) may deserve to be regarded as lexical
items? Why? (If you are not a native speaker of English, you may like to consult a
native speaker about what these sentences mean.)

a. They put the cat among the hamsters. => Put & cat

b. They put the cat among the pigeons. => Put & cat

c. They put out the cat before going to bed.

d. They put out the light before going to bed.

e. They really put themselves out for us.

f. They looked really put out.

g. Roger is a man who keeps his promises.

h. Richard is a man of his word.

i. A man in the road witnessed the accident.

j. The man in the street is not interested in economic policy.

k. Rupert is a man about town.

l. I met a man with an umbrella.

m. May the best man win.

n. The best man unfortunately lost the rings on the way to the wedding.

5. Look up the following words in two or three medium-sized dictionaries:

Unperplexed => Un (tidak), perplexed (bingung) => Ketenangan

Sensitiveness => Kepekaan

Poorish => Kemiskinan

de-urbanise => de (tidak), urbanise (pedesaan) => kota

Is their existence recorded, and, if so, how? For any whose existence is not recorded, does the
dictionary supply suitable information for a non English-speaker to work out its meaning?