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​The word "beautiful" involves the word-formation process of ​​​                .

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clipping

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backformation

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initialisms

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blending

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gradable antonym

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 are the words which are identical phonologically but different orthographically and semantically.

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relational opposites

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homographs

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complementary antonym

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​synonym

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Different from complementary pairs, gradable pairs of antonyms have comparative and  forms. 

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Why do we say "absolute synonyms are rare or even non-existent"? Illustrate it with examples.

If a lexical item has a range of different meanings, it is regarded as a .

Judge whether each of the following statements is true or false. Write T for true (of the ten statements, only ONE is true) or F for false in the blank offered after each statement.Give a correct version for each of the false statements.

The word “boy” is neutral in general without any negative sense. However，when a twenty-year-old white man calls a forty-year-old black man “boy”, it obviously has a negative connotation reflecting the racist attitude of the speaker.

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Following the theory of Componential Analysis, we define the meaning of a word as a set of _____ with the values：plus（+) or minus (-). 

Draw the deep structure phrase markers for the following two sentences：

The girl might have signed the agreement.

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​Stress can be divided into two types: word stress and stress.

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The distinctive features that can affect more than one sound segment and can also contrast meaning are called  features .There are three kinds of them: stress ,intonation and juncture.

Draw the deep structure phrase marker and apply necessary transformational rules to generate the following sentence

Is the car being repaired?