Практикум по лексикологии английского языка. Часть 1. Словообразование. Маковецкая Н.А - 14 стр.

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Exercise 15. Change the nouns and adjectives into the verbs by putting prefixes
en- (or em-) at the beginning or the suffixes – ify, -ise/ -ize or – en at the end.

Beauty, close, legal, public, power, modern, pure, height, terror, fresh, ugly, local,
body, computer.

                    Dynamics of Productive Word-Formation.
                                 Suffix ” -er” .

Exercise 1. Analyse the derivational patterns on which the words in italics are
formed. Which of them are occasional words?

1. They nodded and smiled, a little doubtfully perhaps, but still they nodded and
smiled, men under a spell. “All right, then, I will. Just to cheer us all up. We’re
getting terribly dismal.” And Miss Golspie, with a final and coquettish nod and
smile of her own at the other two nodders and smilers, marched across the room,
puffing away at one of her host’s Sahibs. Then she sat down at the baby grand
(J.Priestley). 2. Back in the depression, when they took in roomers, the keys
disappeared in the pocket of strangers, and Mrs. Collins’s never troubled to replace
them (W.Morris). 3. He glanced up, very briefly, at his mother, then switched the
nail file over to his left hand. “And the main idea is that it’s not supposed to be just
for bastards and breast-beaters” (J.D.Salinger). 4. Richard’s eyes rested with
appreciation on the young noisy campers whose tents were pitched in the lake-side
field (M.Spark). 5. But the firm is more than just a money-maker, it is the
consummate all-rounder (“The Economist” , № 3, 1991). 6. It is the march of the
disciplined, the money-needers, the money-grubbers, the bread-winners, often the
dead (J.Gordan). 7. Armstrong silences the doubters and looks good for fifth
victory (“The Times” , № 3, 2001). 8.- I am lost without you. I am soulless, a drifter
without a home, a solitary bird in a flight to nowhere. (M.Spark). 9. Zapp is
described as vain, sarcastic and a mean grader, but brilliant and stimulating
(D.Lodge). 10. The hammer is actually a ruddy great cannon-ball on the end of a
long bit of wire, and the thrower whisks it round and round his or her head faster
and faster and then lets it go (R.Dahl). 11. The boys ate quickly and quietly,
wolfed their food. Aron said, “Will you excuse us, Father?” Adam nodded, and the
two boys went quickly out. Samuel looked after them: “They seem older than
eleven,” he said. “I seem to remember that at eleven my brood were howlers and
screamers and runners in circles. These seem like grown men” (J.Steinbeck).

Exercise 2. Analyse the connotational meaning of the italicized words

1. O’Shea is what you might call an avant-gardener (D.Lodge). 2. There were
four other sleepers scattered about the raw rock floor (J.Jones). 2. Most video
gamers in Britain are made because of the way they are marketed and designed but
in Japan and America many more women are becoming interested in playing video