1. Derivations involve adding affixes like prefixes and suffixes to words to create new words, such as unhappy or happiness.
2. Blending combines parts of multiple words to form a new word, for example brunch from breakfast and lunch.
3. Compounding joins two or more words together like raincoat from rain and coat.
3. Derivation
The most common word formation process.
Affixes
Suffixes At the end of the Word: happyness
Prefixes At the beginning of the Word: unhappy
Infixes In the middle of the Word : Singabloodypore!
4. Compounding
Is the Word formation process in which two or more lexemes combine into a single new Word. They may
bewritten as one Word or as two words joined with a hyphen.
Noun-noun compound: note+book Notebook
Adjective-noun compound: blue+Berry Blueberry
Verb-noun compound: work+room workroom
5. Blending
Is the Word formation process in which paets of two or more words comibine to cr辿ate a new
Word whose meaning is often a combination of rhe original words.
Adversisement+entertainment advertisement
Biographical+ picture biopic
Breakfast + lunch brunch
Chuckle + snort chortle
Cybernetic + organism cyborg
6. a)Place the number in the correct definition
1 Derivations ____Join two words by combining parts and
making a new whole. Breakfast + lunch =
brunch, Motor + hotel = motel
2 Blendings _____Add affixes, prefixes, suffixes= happy-
-- unhappy, happiness, infixes =
Singabloodypore,
3 Compounding ______The process of joining or combining
two or more words to make a longer word.
Rain+coat = Raincoat,
b) Name the Word category of each Word.
1. Bloodhound (N) = (N) + (v). ______________
2. Fledglings (N) = fledge / nestling __________
3. Well-brought-up.(Adj)= Adv+verb+prep _______
4. Hook-and-eye (N). = V+conjuc+N ________
5. Muskrat (N) = (N)+(N) __________
6. Hunting-ground (N). = (N)+(N) ____________
7. Nightfall (N) = (N+V) _____________
8. Brick-wall (N) = (N+N). ____________
9. Earthenware(N)= (N +(en) + N).______________
10. Singlehanded(adj) = (N + Adj) _______________
11. Tailorbird (N) = (Adj + N) ___________
12. Restless (Adj) = (V+-less) __________
13. Roadside (N) = (N+N) ____________