B R A I N T E A S E R S - Punctuation (intermediate)
Quizzes and puzzles for learners of English
180 Word mergers - Coinages - Portmanteau words?
Wortschöpfungen - Coinages
Occasionally two words are fused with one another to create a new one. Can you identify the two components which have gone to make up these so-called "portmanteau" words? For example "smog" is a short form made from "smoke" and "fog"
smog
netiquette advertorial guesstimate affluenza |
smoke
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and
and and and and |
fog
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Brainteasers (179) - Tricky apostrophes
All apostrophes in the right places:
"Its" is a possessive pronoun like "my" and "his".
"It's" is a contraction of "it has" or "it is".
1 The car was turned over on its side.
its bleibt ohne Apostroph (hier handelt es sich um das Possesivpronomen (engl. possessive determiner): his, her, its usw., das nie mit einem Apostroph geschrieben wird).
2 It's time to go home.
Eine typisch englische "contraction" (Zusammenziehung) für "It is"
3 Has the cat had its food yet
(possessive determiner, siehe 1)
4 The company sent its best salesperson to the conference
(possessive determiner, siehe 1)
5 The best thing about it is its size
(possessive determiner, siehe 1)
6 It's getting hot in here
(contraction, siehe 2)
7 Look at that guinea-pig! It's got a yellow stripe.
(contraction: kurz für "It has")
8 Brrr! It's suddenly got really cold. Looks like it's November.
(contraction: both "it is")
9 The cat is in its basket.
(possessive determiner, siehe 1)
10 The bird flapped its wings and took off over the pond.
(possessive determiner, siehe 1)
7. Mai 2008