Analyze and comment on the following TWO sentences to illustrate the differences between blending and clipping.The program will be telecast simultaneously to nearly 150 cities.It sounds much better in stereo.

Analyze the following dialogue and comment on the rhetoric use of homonym in italicized font.

A:“Why is Sunday the strongest day?”

B: “Because all the others are week days. ”

Analyze and comment on the following TWO sentences to illustrate the differences between blending and clipping.The program will be telecast simultaneously to nearly 150 cities.It sounds much better in stereo.

By the criterion of grammatical functions, idioms may be classified into five groups. Name the five groups and match the following expressions with them as their examples respectively.“white elephant” “look into” “beyond the pale”“tooth and nail” “Never do things by halves. ”

What is collocative meaning of a word? Please take “pretty” and “handsome” as an example to illustrate your point.

What contextual clues do you often use to help you in guessing the meanings of new words?Demonstrate these clues with examples.

polysemy

linguistic context

What is the difference between root and stem?

allomorphs

affixation