1) What is clipping? a) words are created by joining free morphemes together. b) refers to shortening an existing word. c) is the study of words and their parts. d) is the process of forming a word by combining parts of words 2) Mathematics is types clipping off? a) Initial clipping b) Final clipping 3) Why do we clip words? a) Change formality of spoken language Most clipped words are more informal than the longer existing words b) they show how a word will be used in a sentence and what part of speech c) modify the meaning of a word 4) Final clipping refers to a) which refers to removing the last syllable(s) to create a clipped word. b) which refers to removing the first syllable(s) to create a clipped word. 5) Aeroplane is types clipping of? a) Final b) Initial 6) Glimmer= gleam + shimmet is an example of  a) suffix b) clipping c) prefix d) blending 7) When two words are combined in their entirety, the result is considered a compound word rather than a blend. a) Right b) wrong 8) Algeo, a linguist, proposed dividing blends into a) one group (Phonemic Overlap) b) two groups(Phonemic Overlap\ Clipping) c) Three groups（Phonemic Overlap/Clipping/Phonemic Overlap and Clipping） 9) Blending is  a) art of a syllable is shared between two words b) is the process of forming a word by combining parts of words

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