Reminder For This Coming Monday's Class

As you all know the monday class from 2nd April 2012 will be moved forward to 11.30 am...

Please bring you Dictionary and The Sun for a QUIZ :)

Thanks :)

Inflection of nouns

Hey guys really sorry for the delay, here is the link for you guys to download the work on Inflections of Nouns )



Link :-
Inflection Of Nouns

GROUP PRESENTATION TITLE :)

Below are the group task according to group number . Please take note :-

Group 1

"Derivational Morphemes"

Group 2

"Tree Diagrams"

Group 3

"Stems"

Group 4

"Reflective Morphemes"

Group 5

"Grammatical Categories"

Group 6

"Bound Morphemes"

Group 7

"Ambiguous Sentences"

Group 8

"Root Words"

Group 9

"Morphemes"

P/S: A gentle reminder : slots for presentation will be randomly selected. 

Message from Miss Sarada :-

"You have been given your topics for presentation.Make sure you start planning now.

Each group will be given 20 minutes to present their topics.Remember to use songs,drama,role play,newspapers,Internet,etc in your presentation.Hand in an essay on the topic of your presentation.If you have any questions on the above,please post them here...."

Next Week's Task :)

Attention to all :-

As to what to do  next week,students have to research on the following:

a)Phrase structure and words....what does it mean?Bring examples for discussion.

b)Noun phrases,adjective phrases,quantifiers,verb phrases,prepositional phrases...read and understand the research.

P/S:Come prepared for a discussion...

WORK #1

1.What is ‘orthography’?

2.a)When you say you know a word,it means you know both its ‘form’ and its ‘meaning’….explain ‘form’….

     b)Select a word ,make sentences to show its different meanings.

3.When a word is stored in your ‘mental lexicon’,what is the information you have on the word?

4.Explain ‘morpheme’.A single word may be composed of one or two morphemes:Look at the following words,do you know how many morphemes   they consist of?

a)boy    b)boyish  c) boyishness  d)gentlemanliness  e) ungentlemanliness

5. What are ‘root’ morphemes?Give examples of ‘root’ morphemes.

6. What  is a ‘stem’?Give examples of ‘stem’.

7.Explain and give examples of:

                                   ‘free’ and ‘bound’ morphemes.

                                      Prefixes and suffixes

                                      Content(open) and function (closed)words

                                      Derivational and inflectional morphemes

                                      Compounds,Acronyms,Blends,Abbreviations,Eponyms