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ENG 380 Week 2 Coining New Words, Grammar, Syntax, Phrases, and Clauses Worksheet
Whether pursuing a degree and career in the field of linguistics, or simply pursuing a better understanding of language to apply to any career, comprehension of the parts of grammar and how words are created will aide in your ability to apply this information in any capacity.
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Coining New Words
Part A
Prepare a 75-word response to each of the following processes for coining new words. In your responses, describe how each process is used in the formation of a new word (neologism), and list three examples of words from each process. Be sure that the examples are not used in the text. Please format your three example words in bold font.
- Compounding
- Acronym Formation
- Eponyms
- Clipping
- Blending
Grammar, Syntax, Phrases, and Clauses
Part B
- Prepare a 100-word response for each of the following questions:
- What is the difference between grammar and syntax?
- What is the difference between a phrase and a clause?
- For each sentence below, indicate the type of sentence illustrated, and provide the phrases and clauses listed. If there is more than one correct answer, try to list as many as possible.
- Possible sentence types: simple, complex, compound, or compound-complex
An example is provided below.
| Example: When it is summer, butterflies visit the flowers in many gardens. | |
| 1. Type of sentence | Complex sentence |
| 2. Subject | Butterflies |
| 3. Predicate | visit the flowers in many gardens |
| 4. Dependent Clause: | When it is summer |
| 5. Verb Phrase | Visit |
| 6. Prepositional Phrase | in many gardens |
| 7. Noun Phrase | summer, butterflies, the flowers, many gardens |
| a. A friendly black and white cat is sitting on the fence outside my window. | |
| 1. Type of sentence | |
| 2. Subject | |
| 3. Predicate | |
| 4. Noun Phrase | |
| 5. Adjective Phrase | |
| 6. Prepositional Phrase | |
| 7. Verb Phrase | |
| b. Linguistics, a discipline that connects to many other fields of study, is valuable to us in many ways. | |
| 1. Type of sentence | |
| 2. Subject | |
| 3. Predicate | |
| 4. Independent Clause | |
| 5. Dependent Clause | |
| 6. Noun Phrase | |
| 7. Prepositional Phrase | |
| c. The party starts at seven tonight, so Emily will leave work early. | |
| 1. Type of sentence | |
| 2. Subject | |
| 3. Predicate | |
| 4. Independent Clause | |
| 5. Verb Phrase | |
| 6. Prepositional Phrase | |
| 7. Noun Phrase | |
- For each sentence below, indicate the type of sentence illustrated, and identify the types of phrases and clauses listed. If there is more than one correct answer, list as many as possible.
- Possible sentence types: simple, complex, compound, or compound-complex
- Possible clauses: dependent clause, independent clause
- Possible phrases: noun phrase, verb phrase, adjective phrase, adverbial phrase, prepositional phrase
An example is provided below.
| Example: When it is cold, the cat sits on the heater or under the blanket. | |
| 1. Type of sentence | Complex-compound sentence |
| 2. The cat | Subject, noun phrase |
| 3. Sits on the heater or under the blanket | Predicate |
| 4. When it is cold | Dependent Clause |
| 5. The cat sits under the blanket | Independent Clause (Simple Sentence) |
| 6. On the heater | Prepositional Phrase |
| 7. Blanket | Noun Phrase |
| a. The baseball game was exciting but also exhausting for the kids. | |
| 1. Type of sentence | |
| 2. The baseball game was exciting for the kids | |
| 3. The baseball game | |
| 4. the kids | |
| 5. for the kids | |
| 6. The baseball game was also exhausting for the kids | |
| 7. exciting | |
| b. When the fish died, we unceremoniously flushed it down the toilet in the kids’ bathroom. | |
| 1. Type of sentence | |
| 2. When the fish died | |
| 3. we unceremoniously flushed it down the toilet in the kids’ bathroom | |
| 4. we | |
| 5. died | |
| 6. down the toilet | |
| 7. unceremoniously | |
| c. Arianna recognized that the books and pencils were hers when the teacher held them up in front of the class. | |
| 1. Type of sentence | |
| 2. Arianna recognized that the books were hers | |
| 3. when the teacher held them up in front of the class | |
| 4. of the class | |
| 5. Arianna | |
| 6. held them up | |
| 7. the books | |