XXIV. Say whether the following lexical units are word-groups or compounds. Motivate your answer.

Railway platform, snowman, light dress, traffic light, railway station, landing field, film star, white man, hungry dog, medical man, landing plane, top hat, distant star, small house, green light, evening dress, top student, bluecoat [policeman], roughhouse [play that has got out of hand and turned into brawling R скандал, драка]; booby trap [booby trap — a trap laid for the unawary аs a practical joke, often humiliating (R. ловушка)], black skirt, medical student, hot dog, blue dress, U-shaped trap, black shirt [black shirt — a fascist (black shirts were part of uniform of the Italian Fascist party).

XXV. Classify the following units according to the type of word-formation (abbreviation, clipping, blending) and supply the corresponding full words or word combinations. Fill in the following table:

A.B.C., A-bomb, ad, auto, B.A., BASIC, BBC, Bros, bus, Capt., D-Day, Dec., doc., dorm, Dr., G.P., FBI, FIFO, I.O.U., lab., laser, Lat., mike, Mon., M.P., MS, N.Y., p., para troops, Ph. D., PR, pub, radar, seadrome, sub, tec, tram, uffish, U.N.O., Wed., Zoo

abbreviation	clipping	blending	Full words or word-combinatons
BASIC			Beginners All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code
	bus		Omnibus
		dog-napper	dog+kidnapper

XXVI. What is the type of word-building by which the italicized words in the following extracts were made?

1. If they'd anything to say to each other, they could hob-nob [to hob-nob — to be on familiar terms.] over beef-tea in a perfectly casual and natural manner. 2. No sooner had he departed than we were surrounded by cats, six of them, all miaowing piteously at once. 3. A man who has permitted himself to be made a thorough fool of is not anxious to broadcast the fact. 4. "He must be a very handsome fellow," said Sir Eustace. "Some young whipper-snapper [whipper-snapper — young, esp. undersized boy who behaves with more self-importance than is proper.] in Durban." 5. In South Africa you at once begin to talk about a stoep — I do know what a stoep is — it's the thing round a house and you sit on it. In various other parts of the world you call it a veranda, a piazza, and a ha-ha [ha-ha — fence, hedge or wall hidden in a ditch or trench so as not to interrupt a landscape.] 6. All about him black metal pots were boiling and bubbling on huge stoves, and kettles were hissing, and pans were sizzling, and strange iron machines were clanking and spluttering. 7.1 took the lib of barging in. 8. I'd work for him, slave for him, steal for him, even beg or borrow for him. 9. I've been meaning to go to the good old exhibish for a long time. 10. Twenty years of butling had trained him to wear a mask.