ELE3103Topic 3: Morphology

Word Forms QuizUse the word at the end of each blank to form a new word with which to fill the blank. While doing this exercise, look for clues which tell you what kind of word is missing (adjective, noun, verb, adverb). Make sure to take into consideration forms using various prefixes and suffixes, as well as negative forms. The first one has been done for you.

Qn 1:

We earn our 0.living (LIVE) in America today in peaceful 1. ______ (COMPETE) with people all across the Earth. Profound and 2. _____ (POWER) forces are shaking and 3. _____ (MAKE) our world, and the urgent question of our time is whether we can change our friend and not our enemy. This new world has already 4. _____ (RICH) the lives of millions of Americans who are able to 5. _____ (COMPETITION) and win in it. But when most people are working harder for less, when others cannot work at all, when the cost of health care devastates families and threatens to bank on our enterprises, great and small, when the fear of crime robs law 6._______ (ABIDE) citizens of their 7. _____ (FREE), and when millions of poor children cannot even imagine the lives we are calling them to lead, we have not made change our friend.

Qn. 2:

In the centre of the room, clamped to an upright easel, stood the full-length portrait of a young man of 0.extraordinary (ORDINARY) personal beauty, and in front of it, some little 1._____ (DISTANT) away, was sitting the artist himself, Basil Hallward, whose sudden 2._____ (APPEAR) some years ago caused, at the time, such public 3._______ (EXCITE), and gave rise to so many strange conjectures. As the painter looked at the 4._____ (GRACE) and comely form he had so 5._____ (SKILL) mirrored in his art, a smile of 6.______ (PLEASE) passed across his face, and seemed about to linger there. But he 7._____ (SUDDEN) started up, and, closing his eyes, placed his fingers upon the lids, as though he sought to8. _____ (PRISON) within his brain some curious dream from which he feared he might 9._____ (WAKE).

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Qn 3

Read the text and then type the correct form of the word in CAPITALS to complete the blanks.There is an example at the beginning.

Food ProductionIn the not-too-distant past farm animals were able to

live (0) NATURAL lives in what we would now term NATURE

'free-range' conditions. Such farming methods however,

were not able to supply the rapidly growing (1) ... POPULATE

of the world and the increasing demands on food

(2) ... In order to cope with this rising demand, factory CONSUME

farming methods were introduced along with the (3) ... DEVELOP

of genetically engineered (4) ... hormones, which GROW

resulted in a massive increase in food (5) ... PRODUCE

However, these developments in the use of factory  

farming and drug (6) ... have led to a widespread TREAT

feeling that animals are being caused a lot of distress

and that the quality of the food itself suffers as a

consequence. Certainly, many people (7) ... with the idea AGREE

of keeping animals in one building for their entire (8) ... EXIST

and argue that more emphasis should be given to (9) ... ALTERNATE

farming methods. A growing number of people are 

choosing to eat organic food, supporting farmers who use  

free-range methods, a system which has proved to be

ELE3103Topic 3: Morphology

both (10) ... and more humane. ECONOMY