1. What are the main ways of enriching the English vocabulary?
2. What are the principal productive ways of word-building in English?
3. What do we mean by derivation?
4. What is the difference between frequency and productivity of affixes? Why can't one consider the noun-forming suffix -age, that is commonly met in many words (cabbage, village, marriage, etc.), a productive one?
5. Give examples of your own to show that affixes have meanings.
6. Look through Chapter 3 and say what languages served as the main sources of borrowed affixes. Illustrate your answer by examples.
7. Prove that the words a finger and to finger ("to touch or handle with .the fingers") are two words and not the one word finger used either as a noun or as a verb.
8. What features of Modern English have produced the high productivity of conversion? è
9. Which categories of parts of speech are especially affected by conversion?
10. Prove that the pair of words love, n. and love, v. do not present a case of conversion.
II. The italicized words in the following jokes and extracts are formed by derivation. Write them out in two columns: