III. Underline the words you find ambiguous, i.e. have more than one meaning, in these newspaper headlines. Explain what these different meanings are.
City Fires Director for New Look.
Kidnapped Child Found by Tree.
British Left Waffles on Gibraltar.
EMT Helps Raccoon Bite Victim.
Kids Make Nutritious Snacks.
IV. Look at the list below of words that have entered English in the last 50 years or so. How many of these words do you recognize?
1) For those words you recognize, explain where you have seen and/or heard them.
2) How comfortable do you feel using each word? Explain.
blading go postal spam televangelist cassette microwave to google
V. The following pairs of headlines have different meanings.
1) Explain how the inclusion or omission of a preposition changes the meaning of each pair of sentences.
2) Discuss what this tells us about prepositions and grammatical relationships.
Political Headlines:
(1a) Iraqi Head Seeks Arms
(1b) Head of Iraq Seeks Arms
Agriculture Headlines:
(2a) Angry Bull Injures Farmer with Axe
(2b) Angry Bull Injures Farmer Axe
Headline News:
(3a) Man Struck by Speeding Car
(3b) Man Struck Speeding Car
Local News:
(4a) Police Help Fire Chief
(4b) Police Help to Fire Chief
VI. Build up the lexical paradigm of nomination.
MODEL: high: high - height - heighten - highly (high)
fool, to criticize, slow, fast;
new, work, to fraud, out;
to cut, sleep, brief, hard;
down, beauty, to deceive, bright.
VII. Define part-of-speech characteristics of the underlined words. Give your reasons.
1. I don't know why it should be, I am sure: but the sight of another man asleep in bed when I am up, maddens me (Jerome). 2. He did not Madame anybody, even good customers like Mrs. Moore. 3. To out-Herod Herod. 4. If ifs and ans were pots and pans there'd be no need of tinkers. 5. Poor dears, they were always worrying about examinations... (Christie) 6. "After all, I married you for better or for worse and Aunt Ada is decidedly the worse.'' (Christie) 7. Good thing, too. He'd have gone to the bad if he'd lived (Christie). "I believe," said Tommy thoughtfully, "she used to get rather lots of fun out of saying to old friends of hers when they came to see her "I've left you a little something in my will, dear" or "This brooch that you're so fond of I've left you in my will." (Christie) 9. When I'm dead and buried and you've suitably mourned me and taken up your residence in a home for the aged. I expect you'll be thinking you are Mrs. Blenkinsop half of the time (Christie). 10. The little work-table dispossessed the whatnot - which was relegated to a dark corner of the hall (Christie). 11. "But -" Tuppence broke in upon his "but" (Christie). 12. "Look here, Tuppence, this whole thing is all somethings and some-ones. It's just an idea you've thought up." (Christie) 13. Tommy came back to say a breathless goodbye (Christie). 14. Although it was dim, there was a faded but beautiful carpet on the floor, a deep sage-green in colour (Christie). 15. I thought it was something wrong when his wife suddenly up and left him (Christie).
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