Работа по лексикологии английского языка (ответы на вопросы по тексту)

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 John Reed was a schoolboy of fourteen years old; four years older than I, for I was but ten: large and stout for his age, with a dingy and unwholesome skin; thick lineaments in a spacious visage, heavy limbs and large extremities. He gorged himself habitually at table, which made him bilious, and gave him a dim and bleared eye and flabby cheeks. He ought now to have been at school; but his mama had taken him home for a month or two, “on account of his delicate health.” Mr. Miles, the master, affirmed that he would do very well if he had fewer cakes and sweetmeats sent him from home; but the mother’s heart turned from an opinion so harsh, and inclined rather to the more refined idea that John’s sallowness was owing to over-application and, perhaps, to pining after home. John had not much affection for his mother and sisters, and an antipathy to me. He bullied and punished me; not two or three times in the week, nor once or twice in the day, but continually: every nerve I had feared him, and every morsel of flesh in my bones shrank when he came near. There were moments when I was bewildered by the terror he inspired, because I had no appeal whatever against either his menaces or his inflictions; the servants did not like to offend their young master by taking my part against him, and Mrs. Reed was blind and deaf on the subject: she never saw him strike or heard him abuse me, though he did both now and then in her very presence, more frequently, however, behind her back.

Tasks

1.   Point 20 words and divide them into lexical, grammatical, semantic words.

2.   Choose 20 words and divide them into polysemantic and monosemantic ones.

3.   Characterize 3 words from the viewpoint of grammatical, lexical, denotational and connotational meaning as well as from that of emotive charge.

4.   Characterize 10 words on the principle of morphemic analysis. Point out free/ bound, lexical/grammatical morphemes.

5.   Choose 5 words, write down their primary and secondary meanings, their connotations.

6.   Chose a word and compare its meanings with those of its Russian counterpart.

7.   Find three words, select several synonyms for each word and give definitions of the words included in this group. Find antonyms for the selected words. If the words are polysemantic, find antonyms for each meaning.