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Verbal Suffixes. Exercise 1. American американский; Christian христианский; European европейский; fertile плодородный; international международный; Italian итальянский; legal законный
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Verbal Suffixes
Exercise 1
Form verbs in –ize with the meaning ‘to make, to bring into the state expressed by the adjective-stem’.
American американский; Christian христианский; European европейский; fertile плодородный; international международный; Italian итальянский; legal законный, легальный; material материальный, вещественный; modern современный; palatal палатальный; rational разумный, рациональный; subtle тонкий, искусный; tranquil спокойный, тихий; vulgar вульгарный.
Exercise 2
Think of sentences with the following phrases.
To equalize the score; to sympathize with somebody’s views; to antagonize somebody; to specialize in; to get acclimatized to; to materialize (about hopes, dreams); civilized society.
Exercise 3
Read the following groups of words.
Articulate артикулировать – articulate членораздельный
Appropriate присваивать – appropriate подходящий
Associate соединять (ся) – associate объединенный, associate коллега
Certificate удостоверять – certificate удостоверение
Complicate усложнять – complicate запутанный
Coordinate координировать – coordinate одного ранга
Deliberate обдумывать – deliberate преднамеренный
Exercise 4
Build –(i)fy -verbs from the following adjectives and nouns. Define the meaning of such verbs.
Beauty, dandy, false, glory, pretty, simple, diverse, ugly, speech.
Exercise 5
Make sentences with the following phrases.
To electrify rural areas; to terrify somebody out of his senses; to modify so as to meet new requirements; to testify to the fact; to ratify the Treaty; to feel dissatisfied with to the performance; cockneyfied pronunciation; to qualify for the Grandmaster title; magnifying glass; gasification of coal.
Exercise 6
Fill in the blanks with –en-verbs formed from the adjectives in brackets. Translate the sentences into Russian.
1. Roy got out a long-bladed pocket knife. He ______ it on a whetstone (sharp).
2. The lines of his face _______, and into his eyes came a fighting light ( hard).
3. It awakened in him that secret hostility natural between brothers, the roots of which – little nursery rivalries – sometimes _______ and ______ as life goes on (tough, deep).
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4. Arthur put his hand on her arm quickly to _______ her (quiet).
5. It is terrible. It _______ me to think of it (sick).
6. The fair was in full swing. The noise was _______ (deaf)
Exercise 7
Translate into English using –en-verbs.
1. После нескольких часов непрерывной работы (unremitting toil) его мускулы одеревенели (stiff).
2. Мы вышли из воды освеженные (fresh).
3. Хозяин покраснел от (with) гнева.
4. Проигрыш в этом матче уменьшил наши шансы на выход в финал соревнований (to come into the final).
5. Его лицо омрачилось (dark), когда я сообщил ему об этом, но вскоре он опять оживился (liven up).
Exercise 8
Complete the following sentences, forming verbs from the given nouns and adjectives:
horror apology beauty length sympathy fat deep modern sterile
1. He ___________ for interrupting her.
2. She tried to _____________ her room with posters and plants.
3. A study has been ordered into the feasibility of _________ the airport’s main runway by two hundred metres.
4. However much they _________, they all felt it was her fault.
5. Soya is excellent food for _____________ cattle.
6. She laughed and that seemed to __________ her voice.
7. L 40, 000 had been spent on _____________ the station.
8. ____________________ the bottles by immersing them in boiling water for fifteen minutes.
B. PREFIXATION
Exercise 1
Arch-(chief, main, highest-ranking), out-(more, better etc. than), mal-(badly, wrongly), pseudo-(false, pretended). Put each of the above prefixes in its correct space in the sentences below.
a) In my opinion this book is just __________-intellectual rubbish.
b) Although he was older than his wife, he ____________lived her by ten years.
c) Priests are not often ambitious men, but he had set his heart on becoming ___________bishop.
d) The launch of the space-rocket was delayed by a ______________function in the fuel system.
e) At the beginning of the nineteenth century, Britain’s _______________-enemy was France.
f) He completely __________boxed his opponent and knocked him out in the seventh round.
g) Children who grow up in time of war are more to be _____________adjusted than other children.
h) He uses __________-scientific language to persuade his readers.
i) These squalid, dark, cramped, _______________odorous room are homes to whole families of people.
j) She was the finest dancer in the country. She ___________shone all the others.
Exercise 2
Explain the meanings of the following words and phrases.
a) a pseudonym
b) arch-rivals
c) maladministration
d) out-size clothes
e) malnutrition
f) pseudo-religious
g) an arch-villain
h) to outstay your welcome
Exercise 3
a- (not, without), hyper- (extremely, too), fore- (before, in front of), neo- (new, revived). Put each of the above prefixes in its correct space in the sentences below.
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a) The British Museum was built in the middle of the last century in the ____________-classical style popular at that time.
b) Who can ______________tell what the future holds for us?
c) It’s no use asking him about the political system or the parties. He doesn’t know or care. He’s completely _____________political.
d) It’s quite normal to complain if you think something is wrong, but I do feel that you are sometimes ____________critical.
e) The authorities are concerned at the activities of a small ________________-Nazi movement.
f) You must be very careful what you say about her poems. She’s a ____________sensitive person.
g) She didn’t know the difference between right and wrong. She had no conscience at all. She was simply ____________moral.
h) The police claimed that she had some _____________knowledge of the murder attempt and could have prevented it.
i) He was standing in the middle, in the _____________ground of the picture.
j) Young children can sometimes be _____________active, which means that they can’t keep still.
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