Distribute the given compound words according to their morphemic structure into the following groups: a) simple compounds; b) derivational compounds; c) contracted compounds.
a)Ice-cream, one-two, angel-coordinator, snow flake, to week-end, sunflower, lollipop, to spotlight, stone-deaf, to freeload, nobody, seesaw.
b)To honeymoon, bungee-jumping, hair-raising, onrushing, to postcard, to nickname, change maker, hoity-toity, to babysit, forthcoming, teenager, pillow case, elsewhere, to snow-off, two-folded, to email, ill-equiped.
c)Ex-housewife, A-list, e-mail, VE-day.
Distribute the given compound words according to the means of composition into the following groups: a) simple compounds; b) morphological compounds; c) syntactic compounds.
Sportsman, Anglo-American, craftsman, newsstand, step-by-step, lobsterpot, lady-in-waiting, make-believe, outsell, work-to-rule, handicapped, up-and-coming, spokesperson, on-stream, out-of-date, bridesmaid, dandelion, earthquake, up-and-under, upper-class (person), kettledrum, Italo-Austrian, sister-in-law, back-to-back, line-up, out-of-pocket, outpatient, down-to-earth, salesperson.
Group the compounds given below into idiomatic and non-idiomatic.
Spread-eagle, heartfelt, fake-happy (voice), castoff (coat), buzz-kill, flat head, scoop-neck, shell-shocked, nametag, quicksand, do-gooder, makeup, bulldog, tailor-made, full-length, stick-shift, milestone, obstacle-fraught, rooftop, watchdog, top-notch, chopping-board, think tank, thumb index, spreadsheet, ribtickler, paper shuffler.
Characterize the compound words given below according to the principles you know.
Bookworm, to hunger-strike, man-of-war, U-turn, not-so-sober (afternoon), long-winded, peephole, love-lies-bleeding, homecoming.
7. Single out nonce syntactic compounds in the given extracts. What style do they belong to? What are the ways to render the syntactic compounds in Russian? Use your creativity as translators when trying to retain and convey stylistic peculiarities of the English text. For example:
– It’s a fine, respectable career – I’d rather see you doing that than any of those hippie-dippy-save-the -world jobs your parents would recommend – but you seem so young to lock yourself into something so boring.
– Это хорошая, престижная карьера, мне бы больше понравилось, если бы ты занималась этим, чем устроилась бы на какую-нибудь работу а-ля хиппи-шизиппи-спасем-этот-мир, рекомендованную твоими родителями. Ты ведь еще так молода, чтобы погрязнуть в чем-то скучном.
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1. “Oh, hello, darling. I was just ringing to see what you wanted for Christmas.”
“Christmas?”
“I wondered if you’d like a set of wheels for your suitcase.”
“But I haven’t got a suitcase.”
“Why don’t I get you a little suitcase with wheels attached? You know, like air hostesses have.”
“I don’t want a little bag with wheels on.”
“Ok. Why don’t I get you a proper new big suitcase and a set of wheels?”
Exhausted, I held the phone away from my ear, puzzling about where the missionary luggage-Christmas-gift zeal had stemmed from.
2. When I got to Alconburys’ and rang their entire-tune-of-town-hall-clock-style doorbell I was still in a strange world of my own.
3. The rich, divorced-by-cruel-wife Mark was standing with his back to the room.
4. “Have you read any good books lately?” he said.
Oh, for God’s sake. I racked my brain frantically to think when I last read a proper book. Then I had a brainwave.
“Backlash, actually, by Susan Faludi,” I said triumphantly. Anyway, completely safe option as no way diamond-pattern-jumpered goody-goody would have read five-hundred-page feministic treatise.
5. She is planning to buy really expensive property with her rich-but-overbred boyfriend.
6. The anything-is-possible feel of New York at dawn vanished, and the identical, grinning faces of Caroline and Cassidy were all I could see.
7. This was puzzling. If her flight had been canceled, I’d assumed the airlines would’ve resheduled her for the first flight out in the morning, especially considering her premier-advantage-plus-gold-platinum-diamond-executive-VIP mileage status and the original cost of her first-class tickets.
8. Mum has been to church and suddenly realized in a St Paul-on-road-to-Damascus-type blinding flash that the vicar is gay.
9. My dad insisted on giving my car a full service before I left. ... Then he hit the bonnet in an off-you-go sort of way.
10. “Oh, Mum. I can’t really talk, I’m expecting...”
“Now come along, Bridget. I don’t want any silliness,” she said in her Genghis-Khan-at-height-of-evil voice.
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11. Anyway rang Tom from miracle-on-train-phone (How does it work? How? No
wires. Weird. Maybe somehow connected through electric contact between wheels and tracks) to moan about the no-twenty-three-year-old-date crisis.
12. Staggered downstairs hoping hair sis not smell of fags to find Mum and Una exchanging political views while putting crosses in the end of sprouts.
“Yes, I think what’s-his-name is very good.”
“Well, he is, I mean, he got through his what-do-you-mer-call-it clause that nobody thought he would, didn’t he?”
13. Everyone knows that dating in your thirties is not the happy-go-lucky free-for-all it was when you were twenty-two.
14. As usual, I received an expert eye-roll-deep-sigh combo.
15. An ear-to-ear grin had finally broken out, and he looked delighted.
16. I’ll be going to Paris with Miranda in October, for the spring ready-to-wear shows.
17. It was a one-of-a-kind tote that had been hand-beaded in an elaborate crystal design.
18. I stood there for what must have been five full minutes, listening to the squawking off-the-hook sound with the receiver pressed against my ear.
19. I lied rather smoothly. “I’m looking forward to learning more about it, since I think it would be wonderful to write about it one day.” This was becoming an out-of-body experience.
20. It seemed like we were never really alone and neither of us had much time lately for heart-to-hearts. She immediately changed the subject whenever I brought it up.
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