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In the former chapter, we looked at some of the principles of word formation in English. We noted that words can be formed by the addition of prefixes and suffixes – a process called (29)____. We also saw how, by (30)____, two or more words can join up to make one. Or, new words can be created by a process called (31)____, when a word that in one context is one part of speech, in another context can be enlisted to (32)____ a different function. Hence, you may have heard the relatively recent term to board as in The teacher boarded the new words and the students wrote them down. Then again words can cluster (but not join up) to form multiword units – loosely called chunksthat behave as if they (33)____ single words, for example, black and white, black sheep and in the black.
【題組】33.
(A) be
(B) are
(C) should be
(D) were