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ENGLISCH/781: Brainteasers (180) - Word mergers (SB)


B R A I N T E A S E R S - Punctuation (intermediate)


Quizzes and puzzles for learners of English

180 Word mergers - Coinages - Portmanteau words?



Wortschöpfungen - Coinages

Occasionally two words are fused with one another to create a new one. Can you identify the two components which have gone to make up these so-called "portmanteau" words? For example "smog" is a short form made from "smoke" and "fog"

smog

netiquette

advertorial

guesstimate

affluenza

smoke









and

and

and

and

and

fog









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Brainteasers (179) - Tricky apostrophes

All apostrophes in the right places:
"Its" is a possessive pronoun like "my" and "his".
"It's" is a contraction of "it has" or "it is".

1 The car was turned over on its side.

its bleibt ohne Apostroph (hier handelt es sich um das Possesivpronomen (engl. possessive determiner): his, her, its usw., das nie mit einem Apostroph geschrieben wird).

2 It's time to go home.

Eine typisch englische "contraction" (Zusammenziehung) für "It is"

3 Has the cat had its food yet


(possessive determiner, siehe 1)

4 The company sent its best salesperson to the conference

(possessive determiner, siehe 1)

5 The best thing about it is its size

(possessive determiner, siehe 1)

6 It's getting hot in here

(contraction, siehe 2)

7 Look at that guinea-pig! It's got a yellow stripe.

(contraction: kurz für "It has")

8 Brrr! It's suddenly got really cold. Looks like it's November.

(contraction: both "it is")

9 The cat is in its basket.

(possessive determiner, siehe 1)

10 The bird flapped its wings and took off over the pond.

(possessive determiner, siehe 1)


7. Mai 2008