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 créate 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) ____________
