Exrcises on affixation
Pick out derivatives and classify them.
1. He is the idealist, he's the dreamer of a beautiful dream and even if the dream doesn't come true, it's rather thrilling to have dreamt it. (W. S. Maugham)
2. She could not expect to find a friendly listener in Elliott who was disinclined to trouble himself with a young man. (W. S. Maugham)
3. His cunning, his personal skills, his behaviour, his mixture of good-nature and unbendingness, were all of a piece. (C. P. Snow)
4. As an ageing man, he was utterly, sometimes maddeningly, unshakable, at once. (C. P. Snow)
5. When he came back from abroad, there would be a time for rearrangements and readjustments because of climate and other matters. (A. Christie)
6. I recalled his high spirits, his vitality, his confidence in the future, and his disinterestedness. (W. S. Maugham)
7. In this business one of ten has unpleasantness, but I always consoled myself by thinking that my daughters would marry well. (W. S. Maugham)
8. A dramatization of the work was made, which ran for a season in New York... (W. S. Maugham)
9. Monna Caterina did not answer and Machiavelli was conscious of the uneasiness of her silence. (W. S. Maugham)
10. The weeks, the months passed with unimaginable rapidity. (W. S. Maugham)
11. He muttered to himself and there can be little doubt that his mutterings were disrespectful. (W. S. Maugham)
12. He jabbed unenthusiastically at his meat. (/. Murdoch)
13. We agreed that there would have to be a pre-election meeting, but we saw no reason why there should be more than one. (C. P. Snow)
14. He saw in this over-acting a kind of bluffing, which made him like Anna, who he liked much more. (E. Bowen)
15. Tom Orbell looked at her with something like appeal. I thought she had got him down. Then I realized that I had underrated him. (C. P. Snow)
16. He reiterated what he had already told Skeffington, that getting a majority to re-open the case was only the start. (C. P. Snow.)
17. He was silent while he knocked the ashes out of his pipe and refilled it. {W. S. Maugham)
18. I had got used to his excessive apologies and his overcordial greetings. (C. P. Snow)
19. The newspapers which are now hailing Barber's mini-Budget are the same ones which shouted with joy at his March 30 Budget. (Morning Star)
20. "How about keeping the blacks out?" Mr Callendar said suddenly... "There's a lot of anti-colour feeling." (J. Treuor)
21. At last I put through two telephone calls: one to the kitchens, to say that I should not dine that evening; the other to Martin, asking him to collect the leaders of the pro-Howard party. (C. P. Snow)
22. They might have been the same middle-aged women in mourning who sat on the free benches and gossiped with one another about the price of food and misdeeds of servants. (W. S. Maugham)
23. After that there were taller trees through which in winter were revealed the red roofs of the housing estate, but which in summer enclosed the horizon except where at one place their line was broken by the upwardly pointing finger, just visible from the house of the neo-gothic tower of St Bride's. (/. Murdoch)
24. Don's admiration for his friend was another thing, which irritated Мог. It was so totally non-rational. (/. Murdoch)
25. Your co-believers, my dear chaplain, are remarkably unscrupulous and remarkably insensitive about those of us who have come perfectly respectably, and with at least as much conviction as any of you to the opposite conclusion. (C. P. Snow)
26. As she talked to Mama, relating the events of her journey, she displayed strong, discoloured teeth which, however, were somewhat unmanageable and made little clicking noises. (Л. Cronin)
27. He had done a little unpacking last night. (A. Christie)
28. If there was fog in London, he supposed they would reroute the plane to Prestwick. (A. Christie)
29. ...her ability despite her sixty-old years to race up hills at top speed, easily out-pacing him, sometimes annoyed him. (A. Christie)
30. Then she put on some dark glasses and wrapped a multicoloured handkerchief round her head. (/. Murdoch)
31. Elliott's face bore a look of frigid disapproval. (W. S. Maugham)
32. Added to Dixon's dislike of thinking about work at all, the necessity of keeping Michie at arm's length went far to explain his present discomfort. (/C. Amis)
33. Michie was a moustached ex-service student who'd commanded a tank troop at Arizio. {K- Amis)
34. "My sister is right, one should always look for the good in their fellowmen". "I am afraid I misjudged you in the past. I beg your pardon." {W. S. Maugham}
35. In all big cities there are self-contained groups that exist without intercommunication. (W. S, Maugham)