ENGLISH 9

Quiz #3

Name: __________________________n
Faculty Name: _______________________ __n

I. DIRECTION: Write your answer on the space provided.

Clipping
_________ 1. An act of cutting out a syllable from a root word, and the meaning doesn’t
change.
Folk
Etymology 2. A process where an unfamiliar word is changed to look like another word.
_________
This happens when the word is mispronounced or misunderstood.

Compounding
_________ 3. An act of putting two root words to form a new meaning.

Acronym 4. A process of getting the initial components of words in a phrase.

_________

Eponym 5. Words derived from a person, place, or thing for whom or for which
_________
something is believed to be named.

Blending 6. An act of getting some letters or syllables from a root word to be blended
_________
in another clipped word.

II. DIRECTION: Write the letter of your answer on the space provided.

b.
____7. What type of compound words has spaces between words?
a. Hyphenated Compound Words
b. Open Compound Words
c. Closed Compound Words

c. 8. What type of compound words that has no spaces between words?

____
a. Hyphenated Compound Words
b. Open Compound Words
c. Closed Compound Words

a. 9. What type of compound words that has hyphens between words?

____
a. Hyphenated Compound Words
b. Open Compound Words
c. Closed Compound Words

b. 10. All of the words below are examples of Hyphenated Compound Words except for
____
one. Which one is not?
a. Empty-handed
b. Full moon
c. Well-informed

c. 11. All of the words below are examples of Open Compound Words except for one.
____
Which one is not?
a. Cell phone
b. Full moon
c. Keyboard
 a. 12. It is a reduction process, shortening a word that has more than one syllable,
____
without changing the meaning of the word.
a. Clipping
b. Compounding
c. Blending

c. 13. It is derivation and results in a new word category or new meaning.

____
a. Blending
b. Compounding
c. Backformation

b. 14. An act of adding and changing letters in a word which will result to the change of
____
meaning.
a. Compounding
b. Word Formation
c. Backformation

a. 15. In ________, words are clipped and shortened before they are blended.
____
a. Blending
b. Compounding
c. Backformation