Лексикология английского языка


IV. Say whether the following lexical units are word-groups or compounds. Apply the criteria outlined in the foregoing text to motivate your answer



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IV. Say whether the following lexical units are word-groups or compounds. Apply the criteria outlined in the foregoing text to motivate your answer.

Railway platform, snowman, light dress, traffic light, railway station, landing field, film star, white man, hungry dog, medical man, landing plane, top hat, distant star, small house, green light, evening dress, top student, bluecoat,1 roughhouse,2 booby trap,3 black skirt, medical student, hot dog, blue dress, U-shaped trap, black shirt4.



V. Find shortenings in the jokes and extracts given be­low and specify the method of their formation.

1. В г о w n: But, Doc, I got bad eyes!


Doctor: Don't worry. We'll put you up front. You won't miss a thing.

2. "How was your guard duty yesterday, Tom?"


"O.K. I was remarkably vigilant."

"Were you?"

"Oh, yes. I was so vigilant that I heard at once the re­lief sergeant approaching my post though I was fast asleep."


  1. "Excuse me, but I'm in a hurry! You've had that phone 20 minutes and not said a word!" "Sir, I'm talk­ing to my wife."



1 bluecoat — policeman.

2 roughhouse — play that has got out of hand and turned
into brawling (R. скандал, драка).

3 booby trap — a trap laid for the unawary as a practical
joke, often humiliating (R. ловушка).

4 black shirt — a fascist (black shirts were part of uniform
of the Italian Fascist party).

5 We'll put you up front.— R. 1. Мы пошлем вас на
передовую. 2. Мы посадим вас в первый ряд (игра слов).


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