II. Write out in two columns:
a) nouns formed with the help of productive suffixes,
b) nouns formed with the help of unproductive suffixes.
fulfilment, hardship, lioness, freedom, auctioneer, conveyance, socialism, width, leader, paleness, gentility, cruelty, womanhood, scientist, physician, childhood, development, actress, turner, audience, spoonful, fatalist, impertinence, personification, apprehension, archaism, author, information, fluency, guardian, personality, apprentice, approval, authority, correctness, dictionary, girlie, glamour, persistence, clarity, aptitude, attendant, breadth, wisdom.
III. Comment upon the structure of the following compound nouns.
Lightning-rod, looker-on, commander-in-chief, blackbird, sleeping-draught, lime-kiln, keeping-room, pick-lock, bluestocking, boatman, bluebottle, thank-offering, goodwill, goose-quill, backdoor, backfriend, barefacedness, tailcoat, sleepyhead, skating-rink, singsong, sign-painter, passer-by, moonlight, hop-o'-my-thumb, sportsman, forget-me-not, scarecrow, fire-place, chimney-sweep, foreman, gate-keeper, pickpocket, searchlight, merry-go-round, bluebell, blackberry, sealing-wax, sweetmeat, sweetheart, sea-dog, swing-bridge, peep-hole, cut-throat, frontispiece, gold-digger, nightfall, numbfish.
IV. Define the class the nouns in the following sentences belong to.
1. "... The Government wants Florence to go to the Crimea and take charge of the hospitals." (Berkeley). 2. On the top of the rise ... he lifted his head to take a quick glance across the countryside of settlement called Saint Helen. (Aldridge). 3. She was very conscious of her legs; she had always been terribly aware of their ugliness. (Bates). 4. If Harris's eyes fill with tears, you can bet it is because Harris has been eating raw onions, or has put too much Worcester over his chop. (Jerome). 5. Pork and beef and lamb and pheasant and veal: whatever one wanted had always been at hand. (Bates). 6. He likes everything about him to run with the smoothness of first-class machinery. He has his whole life, and the life of all his family, arranged in detail for the next twenty years. (Braine). 7. Between matches it was Alfie Perks, the secretary, who held the team together... (Moore). 8. Florence: "There are multitudes of people wrestling with Death." (Berkeley). 9. I'll take the matter to the police before I let you do it. (Braine). 10. She ran to her father and begged him: "Daddy darling, can't the band have something to drink?" (Mansfield).
V. Mention collective nouns that will embrace groups of each of the following individual nouns:
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