Практикум по лексикологии английского языка. Часть 1. Словообразование. Маковецкая Н.А - 38 стр.

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Exercise 5.
a) Pick up all the shortenings from the sentences below.
            b) Define the type of shortening.

1. Because it perpetuates the Oxbridge idea of higher education as a version of
pastoral, a privileged idyll cut off from ordinary living (D.Lodge). 2. So Robyn
and Charles went to Cambridge to do their Ph.Ds. (Ibid.). 3. She had one of those
CND badges on (Ibid.). 4. All my aunts and uncles talked it over as if choosing a
prep school for me, and finally said, “Why – ye-es” with very grave, serious faces
(F.Fitzgerald). 5. Well, then, maybe it’s the solitariness of the cowboy in the ads
that appeals to you. Self-reliant, independent, very macho (D.Lodge). 6. She had
never been a deb, which was just as well, for she would have made the other debs
look more than ordinarily silly (C.Hare). 7. “Marje is no intellectual,” said Vic, “as
you probably noticed. She left school without any O-levels” (D.Lodge). 8. The
young people continued to stay on because they were comfy with her. 9. Put on
your specs when buying package holidays. 10. I’ve brought you some black
undies. 11. His wife found his bacco-box. 12. I told the old lady not to make any
more sandwiches, because I was off to the great metropolis. 13. There were two
prams in the hall and the smell, milky and faecal, of small children. 14. Wishing
you congrats and all the best from my wife and I, Yours faithfully, Mr. and Mrs.
Harper. 15. Tony spoke to the vet’s wife and Mr. Partridge from the shop, then he
was joined by the vicar. 16. “I’ll leave you those mags,” she said. “You ought to
read them sometime.” 17. I do nearly all shopping and most of the cooking since
my old ma’s had her op. 18. I learnt nothing at my prep school. 19. It was his
sister’s voice from the stairs. “ Oh, Matthew, you promised” - “I know, sis. But I
can’t.” 20. You don’t mean to say that bloody British gent is coming to expect
you? 21. He wrote their language in his occasional sales memos to Mr. Callender.
22. “He’s taking junior prep,” said Mor. 23. The young woman in the slacks who
had spoken to him suddenly at Frankfurt had had an eager intelligent face.

Exercise 6. a) Write the following shortened words in full.
            b) Analyse the type of shortening.

BBC, BA, BC, ch, coll, Dept, FI, FA, FO, ad, mob, mike, sub, cf., CIA, V-Day, c.,
C., Co., D.C., FBA, L., Ltd, N., No., NB, p.t.o., sec., St., Rd, UNO, UNESCO,
viz., yd, gvt, str., ave., op.cit, R.S.V.P, N., S., A.D., U FO, NATO, Ibid., A.B.C.,
dorm, hanky, H-m, MA, Ph D., X-mas, sq, E-mail, USIA, ABC, P.T.O., COD,
PGE, HND, i.e., v., EC.

Exercise 7. Write the correct abbreviations next to the full forms below.
Department, height, weight, January, meter, hour(s), November, that is, society,
Queen, Doctor of Philosophy, Limited, Master of Arts, minimum, Foreign office,
foreign, foot (feet), House of Lords, information.

Exercise 8. What two words did the words below originate from?