Ex. 6. a) Translate the following perfect homonyms into Russian

b) Use them in sentences of your own.

re-collect, recollect; re-cover, recover; re-form, reform.

Practical work no.12

Classification of homonyms according to Professor A.I. Smirnitsky’s classification system.

Objectives: to distinguish homonyms according to Professor A.I. Smirnitsky’s classification system.

Ex. 1.

A) Find the homonyms in the following extracts. Classify them into homonyms proper, homographs and homophones.

1. "Mine is a long and a sad tale!" said the Mouse, turning to Alice, and sighing. "It is a long tail, certainly," said Alice, looking down with wonder at the Mouse's tail; "but why do you call it sad?" 2. a) My seat was in the middle of a row. b) "I say, you haven't had a row with Coney, have you?" 3. a) Our Institute football team got a challenge to a match from the University team and we accepted it. b) Somebody struck a match so that we could see each other. 4. a) It was nearly December but the California sun made a summer morning of the season, b) On the way home Crane no longer drove like a nervous old maid. 5. a) She loved to dance and had every right to expect the boy she was seeing almost every night in the week to take her dancing at least once on the weekend, b) "That's right," she said

B) On what linguistic phenomenon is the joke in the following extracts based? What causes the misunderstanding?

- "Are your father and mother in?" asked the visitor of the small boy who opened the door.

- "They was in," said the child, "but they is out."

- "They was in. They is out. Where's your grammar?"

- "She’s gone upstairs," said the boy, "for a nap."

C) Classify the following italicized homonyms. Use Professor A. I. Smirnitsky's classification system.

1. a) He should give the ball in your honour as the bride. b) The boy was playing with a ball. 2. a) He wished he could explain about his left ear. b) He left the sentence unfinished. 3. a) I wish you could stop lying. b) The yellow mouse was still dead, lying as it had fallen in the crystal clear liquid. 4. a) This time, he turned on the light, b) He wore $ 300 suits with light ties and he was a man you would instinctively trust anywhere. 5. a) When he's at the door of her room, he sends the page ahead, b) Open your books at page 2. 6. a) Crockett's voice rose for the first time, b) I'll send you roses, one rose for each year of your life.

D) Explain the homonyms which form the basis for the following jokes. Classify the types as in part a.

1. An observing man claims to have discovered the colour of the wind. He says he went out and found it blew.

2. The difference between a cat and a comma is that a cat has its claws at the end of its paws, and a comma has its pause at the end of a clause.

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