Coining New Words
Part A
Prepare a 75-word response to each of the following processes for coining new words. In your responses, describe how each process is used in the formation of a new word (neologism), and list three examples of words from each process. Be sure that the examples are not used in the text. Please format your three example words in bold font.
1. Compounding
2. Acronym Formation
3. Eponyms
4. Clipping
5. Blending
Grammar, Syntax, Phrases, and Clauses
Part B
1. Prepare a 100-word response for each of the following questions:
a. What is the difference between grammar and syntax?
b. What is the difference between a phrase and a clause?
2. For each sentence below, indicate the type of sentence illustrated, and provide the phrases and clauses listed. If there is more than one correct answer, try to list as many as possible.
· Possible sentence types: simple, complex, compound, or compound-complex
An example is provided below.
Example: When it is summer, butterflies visit the flowers in many gardens.
1. Type of sentence
Complex sentence
2. Subject
Butterflies
3. Predicate
visit the flowers in many gardens
4. Dependent Clause:
When it is summer
5. Verb Phrase
Visit
6. Prepositional Phrase
in many gardens
7. Noun Phrase
summer, butterflies, the flowers, many gardens
a. A friendly black and white cat is sitting on the fence outside my window.
1. Type of sentence
2. Subject
3. Predicate
4. Noun Phrase
5. Adjective Phrase
6. Prepositional Phrase
7. Verb Phrase
b. Linguistics, a discipline that connects to many other fields of study, is valuable to us in many ways.
1. Type of sentence
2. Subject
3. Predicate
4. Independent Clause
5. Dependent Clause
6. Noun Phrase
7. Prepositional Phrase
c. The party starts at seven tonight, so Emily will leave work early.
1. Type of sentence
2. Subject
3. Predicate
4. Independent Clause
5. Verb Phrase
6. Prepositional Phrase
7. Noun Phrase
- For each sentence below, indicate the type of sentence illustrated, and identify the types of phrases and clauses listed. If there is more than one correct answer, list as many as possible.
- Possible sentence types: simple, complex, compound, or compound-complex
- Possible clauses: dependent clause, independent clause
- Possible phrases: noun phrase, verb phrase, adjective phrase, adverbial phrase, prepositional phrase
An example is provided below.
Example: When it is cold, the cat sits on the heater or under the blanket.
1. Type of sentence
Complex-compound sentence
2. The cat
Subject, noun phrase
3. Sits on the heater or under the blanket
Predicate
4. When it is cold
Dependent Clause
5. The cat sits under the blanket
Independent Clause (Simple Sentence)
