Практикум по лексикологии английского языка. Часть 1. Словообразование. Маковецкая Н.А - 25 стр.

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7. Arriving home one evening a man found the house locked up. After trying to get
in at the various windows on the first floor he finally climbed upon the shed roof
and with much difficulty entered through a second-story window. On the dining-
room table he found a note from his absent-minded wife: 'I have gone out. You'll
find the key under the door mat.'
8. One balmy, blue-and-white morning the old woman stood in her long, tidy
garden and looked up at her small neat cottage. The thatch on its tip-tilted roof was
new and its well-fitting doors had been painted blue. Its newly-hung curtains were
gay … Bird-early next morning Mother Farting went into the dew-drenched
garden. With billhook and fork she soon set to work clearing a path to the apple-
tree.
                           (From Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator by R.Dahl)

Exercise 2. Classify the compounds according to the meaning of the first
component: state whether it denotes time, purpose, cause, place, property, doer of
the action, object of the action, etc
.
Waterfall, paper-littered, weather-ruined, wrist-watch, sunray, sky-blue, evil-
hearted, strike-breaker, day-shift, ashtray, hand-knitted, duty-free, water-proof,
long-awaited, fir-cone, cold-blooded.

Exercise 3. Give the pattern according to which each type of the compound
adjectives in bold type is formed.
Derivational compounds: noble-minded, doll-faced, etc.
Compounds proper: paper-stuffed, moon-lit, etc..

1. I smiled to her as she turned for the door, and what came back wasn’t the bare-
faced cheeky grin I knew once, but a wry parting of lips moving more for exercise
than humour (A.Sillitoe). 2. A powerful, big-stomached man came into the bunk
house (J.Steinbeck). 3. Outside, the frost-bound fields and skeletal trees covered
under a shield of cloud. There was a kind of pleasure in being warm and mobile in
a cold and lifeless landscape (D.Lodge). 4. He sounds like a real hard-noised
bastard, hard-noised and soft-centered (Ibid.). 5. Housewives like Marjorie, soft-
hearted and soft-headed enough to throw their scraps into the garden (Ibid.). 6.
They were sullen-looking, sleepy-eyed men (E.Caldwell). 7. He got to his feet,
thinking longingly of the many-pillowed, white-canopied bed upstairs and Ellie
in it (E.Adler). 8. Then she saw a sober-suited, white-faced, white-bolding little
man trotting up the stairs like a waiter, and she went after him (D.Lessing). 9. It is
clear he is capable of love, and he forms strong attachment to his caregivers even
while he is attacking them (R.Preston). 10. That Winstock could stand there and
barefacedly say such a thing was immediately suspicious to Mast (J.Jones). 11. Be
quite a second, or I’ll forget it,” Franny said. She stared avidly into space, as
nightmare-recallers do (Ibid.). 12. My mother and Richard were on the sofa
beside the dogs, bent above a weather-beaten little book with wavy papers…
(J.Updike). 13. I have seen him, in a white jacket, collecting laundry and doing