Clipped Words
Q. What are clipped and blended words?
Blended and Clipped Words: Blended words are formed when two or more words are combined through dropping several letters which will give the new word formed a different meaning while Clipped words are formed by dropping one or more syllables of a longer word or phrase without changing its original meaning.
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- Q. What are clipped and blended words?
- Q. What is the clipped word for exposition?
- Q. How many types of clipping words are there?
- Q. What is the example of back clipping?
- Q. Where is derivation used?
- Q. What is a Derivational word?
- Q. How do you use derivation in a sentence?
- Q. What is the derivation of words?
- Q. What do you understand by derivation give five examples?
- Q. Is Unhappy a derivation?
- Q. What’s the word for not happy or sad?
- Q. What is the affixes of unhappy?
Q. What is the clipped word for exposition?
Holt Grade 7 Spelling Lesson 30: Clipped Words
| A | B |
|---|---|
| examination | exam |
| photograph | photo |
| exhibition | exhibit |
| telephone | phone |
| ad – advertisement | memo – memorandum |
|---|---|
| flu – influenza | stats – statistics |
| fridge – refrigerator | stereo – stereophonics |
| gas – gasoline | sub – submarine |
| grad – graduate | taxi – taxicab |
Q. How many types of clipping words are there?
There are four types of possible clipping processes, depending on which part of the word undergoes structural changes: back-clipping (temperature — temp, rhino — rhinoceros, gym — gymnasium), fore-clipping (helicopter — copter, telephone — phone, plane, aeroplane), mixed clipping (influenza — flu, refrigerator — fridge …
Q. What is the example of back clipping?
Back Clipping: As we’ve seen in exam and examination, back clipping is when the back half of a word is deleted. Another example is memo, the back-clipped form of memorandum.
Q. Where is derivation used?
Derivation is fancy word for the origin or root of something. Derivation is most often used in reference to abstract concepts — such as words, names or ideas.
Q. What is a Derivational word?
In morphology, derivation is the process of creating a new word out of an old word, usually by adding a prefix or a suffix. The word comes from the Latin, “to draw off,” and its adjectival form is derivational.
Q. How do you use derivation in a sentence?
Derivation in a Sentence 🔉
- The word doesn’t have a specific derivation, but it probably comes from a French phrase.
- People wondered about the derivation of the painting, but its origin is unknown.
- The derivation of the baby’s name is unknown, but many people think it is a family name.
Q. What is the derivation of words?
In historical linguistics, the derivation of a word is its history, or etymology. In generative grammar, derivation means a sequence of linguistic representations that indicate the structure of a sentence or other linguistic unit resulting from the application of some grammatical rule or set of rules.
Q. What do you understand by derivation give five examples?
Here are some examples of words which are built up from smaller parts: black + bird combine to form blackbird. dis- + connect combine to form disconnect. predict + -able combine to form predictable.
Q. Is Unhappy a derivation?
For example, unhappy and happiness derive from the root word happy. It is differentiated from inflection, which is the modification of a word to form different grammatical categories without changing its core meaning: determines, determining, and determined are from the root determine.
Q. What’s the word for not happy or sad?
equanimity is the word for neither you feel happy nor sad.
Q. What is the affixes of unhappy?
When affixes are added to the beginning of roots or root words, they are called prefixes For example, the most common prefix is un-, which meant not oropposite of. If you add un- to the word happy, the new word becomes unhappy, which means not happy.
