Практикум по лексикологии английского языка. Часть 1. Словообразование. Маковецкая Н.А - 15 стр.

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games (MacMillan). 3. “I am informed that your boss is a hard bargainer, Miss
Penrose” (D.Lodge). 4. “I Mary Hudson sat down between me and a boy named
Edgar something, whose uncle’s best friend was a boot-legger (J.D.Salinger). 5.
The homemaker, that’s me, is the missing part. When it comes time – the missing
lines, they all look – me… (R.Bradbury). 6. “The idea,” he went on, “is that you
scientists are the evidence gatherers” (R.Preston). 7. Some sports illnesses are
linked to the use of performance enhancers (Ibid.). 8. Someone, the surgeon or a
dresser, came forward and with a gesture motioned her aside; he leaned over the
dying man and with a dirty rag wet his lips (S.Maugham). 9. Mice are the fastest
breeders in the world, did you know that ma’am? (R.Dahl) 10. They rode in, the
four of them, in the big two-and-a-half-ton personal truck, which on its way picked
up also the quota of shavers and bathers from the company’s other isolated and
waterless position between Makapoo and the CP (J.Joice). 11. The early Freud
certainly thought libido was the prime mover of human behaviour (D.Lodge). 12.
Today’s travellers are less interested in clothes hangers and hairdryers than in-
room fax machines and natty TV sets that let them pay the bill, checked share
prices and watch movies. Some people even predict that tomorrow globetrotters
won’t waste any time in the lobby when they roll up at their hotel for the night (fr.
Advanced Masterclass. Workbook. Oxford University Press, 1999). 13. Riflemen
don’t carry them and machine-gunners who have pistols don’t carry rifles
(J.Jones). 14. Mrs. Smith rejected it, and went home to a flooded washing-
machine, a threatening letter from a released anarchist drug-pusher to the husband,
and a reflection that in the past much great art had been produced by the peculiar
vitality and vision afforded by TB, which could now, of course, be cured
(A.Byatt).

                                   Suffix “ -ness” .
Exercise 1. Pick out occasional words and say what stylistic effect they help to
achieve.
1. It’s a really crisp, beautiful morning , and out through the window I can see
people walking in all their peopleness , and the sun bringing out red glitter…
(R.Bradbury). 2. And its sheer isness funnels straight into a key image that has
plagued Bintliff since the Gulf War (“The Independent Newspaper” , 2000). 3. And
she did not like being in the garden at all, because of the closeness there of the
enemy irritation, restlessness, emptiness, whatever it was – which keeping her
hands occupied made less dangerous for some reason (D.Lessing). 4. George
O’Kelly was so new to poverty that had any one denied the uniqueness of his case
he would have been astounded (F.S.Fitzgerald). 5. … I hope the length of this letter
will make up for my remissness of late (D.Lodge). 6. At its worst, the Arts and
Crafts movement degenerated into a kind of folksiness, a Surrey nookiness far
removed from the honesty and restraint of the founding fathers (“The Independent
Newspaper” , 1997). 7. Where before Comanches had simply stared at her
femaleness, we now glared at it (J.D.Salinger). 8. That was the devilish part of her
– this coldness, this woodness, something very profound in her, which he had felt
again this morning talking to her; an impenetrability (V.Woolf). 9. “But we’re not