Coining New Words 

Part A

Prepare a 75-word response to each of the following processes for coining new words. In your responses, describe how each process is used in the formation of a new word (neologism), and list three examples of words from each process. Be sure that the examples are not used in the text. Please format your three example words in bold font.

1. Compounding

2. Acronym Formation

3. Eponyms

4. Clipping

5. Blending

Grammar, Syntax, Phrases, and Clauses 

Part B

1. Prepare a 100-word response for each of the following questions:

a. What is the difference between grammar and syntax?

b. What is the difference between a phrase and a clause?

2. For each sentence below, indicate the type of sentence illustrated, and provide the phrases and clauses listed.  If there is more than one correct answer, try to list as many as possible.  

· Possible sentence types: simple, complex, compound, or compound-complex

An example is provided below.

Example: When it is summer, butterflies   visit the flowers in many gardens.

1. Type of   sentence

Complex   sentence

2. Subject

Butterflies

3. Predicate

visit the   flowers in many gardens

4. Dependent   Clause:

When it is   summer

5. Verb Phrase

Visit

6.   Prepositional Phrase

in many gardens

7. Noun Phrase

summer,   butterflies, the flowers, many gardens

a. A friendly black and white cat is   sitting on the fence outside my window.

1. Type of sentence

2. Subject

3. Predicate

4. Noun Phrase

5. Adjective Phrase

6. Prepositional Phrase

7. Verb Phrase

b. Linguistics, a discipline that   connects to many other fields of study, is valuable to us in many ways.

1. Type of sentence

2. Subject

3. Predicate

4. Independent Clause

5. Dependent Clause

6. Noun Phrase

7. Prepositional Phrase

c. The party starts at seven tonight,   so Emily will leave work early.

1. Type of sentence

2. Subject

3. Predicate

4. Independent Clause

5. Verb Phrase

6. Prepositional Phrase

7. Noun Phrase

1. For each sentence below, indicate the       type of sentence illustrated, and identify the types of phrases and       clauses listed.  If there is more than one correct answer, list as       many as possible.  

• Possible sentence types: simple, complex, compound, or      compound-complex
• Possible clauses: dependent clause, independent clause
• Possible phrases: noun phrase, verb phrase, adjective phrase,      adverbial phrase, prepositional phrase

An example is provided below.

Example: When it is cold, the cat sits   on the heater or under the blanket.

1. Type of sentence

Complex-compound sentence

2. The cat

Subject, noun phrase

3. Sits on the heater or under the blanket

Predicate

4. When it is cold

Dependent Clause

5. The cat sits under the blanket

Independent Clause (Simple Sentence)

6. On the heater

Prepositional Phrase

7. Blanket

Noun Phrase

a. The baseball game was exciting but   also exhausting for the kids.

1. Type of sentence

2. The baseball game was exciting for the kids

3. The baseball game

4. the kids

5. for the kids

6. The baseball game was also exhausting for the kids

7. exciting

b.  When the fish died, we   unceremoniously flushed it down the toilet in the kids’ bathroom.

1. Type of sentence

2. When the fish died

3. we unceremoniously flushed it down the toilet in the kids’   bathroom

4. we

5. died

6. down the toilet

7. unceremoniously

c.   Arianna   recognized that the books and pencils were hers when the teacher held them up   in front of the class.

1. Type of sentence

2. Arianna recognized that the books were hers

3. when the teacher held them up in front of the class

4. of the class

5. Arianna

6. held them up 

7. the books

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