Preface
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Preface
This collection of various exercises and texts is intended to help students of English develop their understanding of English morphology. The exercises have been purposefully designed to be used for productive practice and analysis during the English Morphology seminar classes. The exercises are comprised exclusively of authentic examples of use, which have been extracted from sources in the bibliography without any formal or orthographic modifications, although they may occasionally be abridged. The workbook introduces linguistic concepts that are essential to the field, encompassing the hierarchy of linguistic units (sentence, clause, phrase, word, morpheme). Particular attention is paid to detailed analysis of individual parts of speech (word classes: noun, pronoun, adjective, adverb and preposition) and related grammatical categories, as well as their role in phrase formation. English-specific morphological phenomena and processes which are a source of difficulties for Slovene learners of English due to the differences in the linguistic systems of English and Slovene are given special emphasis. English Morphology Exercises will be exploited to their best advantage through independent preparatory study and in-class discussions. There is no accompanying key as the fundamental aim is to motivate discussion of language phenomena and there is often no simple right or wrong answer.
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