Word Formation in English

1. WORD FORMATION

2. By. GROUP 4
1. Dini Hanifa
2. Dwi BelLa Sekarningrum
3. Eva Raisa
4. Hijranisa Ditami
5. Inggit Wastiantias Sari
6. Rizqi Novitasasi

3. WORD FORMATION
COMPOUND
CLIPPING ABBREVIATION
BACK
FORMATION

4. COMPOUNDS
Compound is a word formed by
combining two or more words
together to make a new
meaning.

5. TYPES OF
COMPOUND
Compound
Solid Hypenated Open

6. DOUBLE NOUNS
NOUN ADJECTIVE
VERB
PREPOSITION
VERB NOUN
ADJECTIV NOUN
Solid E VERB
PREPOSITI
NOUN
ON
ADJECTIVE
ADVERB
VERB

7. DOUBLE NOUNS
bed cloth bedcloth
table cloth tablecloth

8. Noun + adjective
1. Air + tight = airtight
2. Time + worn = timeworn
3. Road + worthy = roadworthy

9. Noun + verb
1.Brain + wash = brainwash
2. Life + saving = lifesaving
3.Hand + made = handmade

10. Verb + preposition
1. Blow + out = blowout
2. Feed + back = feedback
3. Kick + off = kickoff
4. Walk + out = walkout

11. Verb + noun
1. Play + mate = playmate
2. Take + home = takehome
3. Pick + pocket = pickpocket

12. Adjective • Black + list = blacklist
• Green + house = greenhouse
+ noun •Light + weight = lightweight
• High + flow =
Adjective highflow
+ verb • White + wash =
whitewash

13. Preposition + Adverb + Adverb +
noun adjective verb
• Out + sider • Ever + • Over + act =
= outsider green = overact
• Over + draft evergreen • Under +
= overdraft • Ever + cover =
• Over + night lasting = undercover
= overnight everlasting • Under +
• Up + town = • Over + ripe stand =
uptown = overripe understand
• Over + awe • In + put =
= overawe input

14. DOUBLE NOUNS
NOUN VERB
PREPOSITIONS
VERB PREPOSITIONS
NOUN
ADJECTIVE
Hypenated VERB
PRONOUN
NOUN
NOUN
PREPOSITION
VERB

15. Double Noun + verb Noun +
nouns: preposition
• Anchor + • Man + • Break + out
man = made = = break-out
anchor-man man-made • Knock + out
• Bottle + = knock-out
feed = • Head + on =
bottle-feed head-on

16. Verb + Adjective + Adjective +
preposition noun verb
• Turn + off = turn- • White + collar = • Short + cut =
off white-collar
short-cut
• Check + in = • Soft + lenses =
check-in soft-lenses • Upper + ended
• Spin + off = spin- • Hard + cover = = upper-ended
off hard-cover

17. • He + man = he-
man
Pronoun + noun • She + devil= she-
devil
• In + law = in-law
Preposition + • Off + road = off-
road
noun • After + life =
after-life
• Out + put =
out-put
Preposition+verb • Through + put
= through-put

18. noun Double noun
Open
adjective Verb

19. Double noun Adjective+verb
• Bank + account • Deep + freeze =
= bank account deep freeze
• Credit + card = •Carried +
credit card forward =
• Contact + lens = carried
contact lens forward
• Baby + milk =
baby milk

20. CLIPPING
Clipping is new words formed by ommiting part
of a word. The omission is normally at the end of a
word or at the beginning, but it can be omiited in both
of them (in the begining and in the end of word).

21. Example omission at the end of
word:
 photograph= photo
 advertising= ad
 mathematics= math
 laboratory= lab
 examination= exam
 bicycle= bike
 microphone= mike
 pornography= porn

22. Example omission at the
beginning of word:
 telephone= phone
 hamburger= burger
 necktie= tie
 omnibus= bus
 airplane= plane

23. Example omission in the begin
and in the end of word:
 influenza= flu
 refrigerator= fridge

24. ABBREVIATION
BLENDS ACRONYMS
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25. BLENDS
Blend is a word composed of other
words combine to form a new word.

26. EXAMPLE:
 Globish (global+English)
 Infotainment (information+entertainment)
 Amerind (America+Indian)
 Eurosia (Europe+Asia)
 Camcorder (camera+recorder)
 Brunch (breakfast+lunch)
 Sitcom (situation+comedy)
 Emoticon (emote+icon)  
 Cozy (comfort+lazy)

27. ACRONYMS
Acronyms are a formed from the
initial sounds or letters of a string of words
such as the name of an organization or a
scientific expression.

28. Examples:
o WHO : World Health Organization
o UNESCO : United Nation Educational, Scientific, and
Cultural Organization
o ATM : Automated Teller Machine
o ISBN : International Standard Book Number
o VIP : Very Important Person
o CEO : Chief Executive Officer
o Ph.D : Doctor of Philosophy
o Ed.D : Doctor of Education
o B.A : Bachelor of Arts
o GMT : Greenwich Mean Time

29. BACK-FORMATION
Back formation is a process
whereby a word whose form is similar to
that of derived form undergoes a process
of deaffixation.

30. Examples:
 Teacher = teach
 Revision = revise
 Peevish = peeve
 Organization = organize