Answer to Question #191197 in English for hangwy

Question #191197

3 Lexical semantics: Rewrite each of the following statements correctly. Give a reason for the correction you make in each sentence. 1.3.1 Antonyms are the use of prefixes and suffixes to a root word. 1.3.2 Collocation is the use of appropriate conjunctions to link sentences in a paragraph. 1.3.3 The smallest unit of sound that has meaning is called phonetics. 1.3.4 Redundancy is an example of the repetitive use of the same word in a sentence. 1.3.5 The study of the structure of sentences is called semantics. 


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2021-05-10T15:34:17-0400

1.3.1 Antonyms are the use of prefixes and suffixes to a root word.

Correct-Antonyms are the use of prefixes to a root word

Only prefixes can be added to make antonyms in some other words but not suffixes

 

1.3.2 Collocation is the use of appropriate conjunctions to link sentences in a paragraph. 

 Correct -Collocation is a series of words in a sentence

 Not being used to link sentences in a paragraph but it’s just linking word to word.

 

 1.3.3 The smallest unit of sound that has meaning is called phonetics.

Correct- The smallest unit of sound that has meaning is called a phoneme.

Phonetic is the study and classification of speech sounds.

 

1.3.4 Redundancy is an example of the repetitive use of the same word in a sentence.

Correct- Anaphora is an example of the repetitive use of the same word in a sentence.

Redundancy is when you use more words than necessary to express something, especially words and/or phrases in the same sentence that means the same thing.

 

1.3.5 The study of the structure of sentences is called semantics

Correct-The study of the structure of sentences is called syntactic.

Semantics is the study of meaning, reference, or truth in a language.



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