MORPHOLOGY ACTIVITIES
UNIT 1
1.3. Walking it is the progressive form of the verb to walk but it is a
noun as well.
Brethren it is a noun related to a religious community.
1.4. Dictionaries are complete while we use the words there are in it.
But, language is always changing and, for this reason, dictionaries
will be always improving and adding new words. This is what ‘work
in progress’ means: they are complete in our time but they will be
incomplete as long as we extend our vocabulary.
1.4.B. The video talks about what kind of English is the right
kind and what kind is the wrong one. There, Jack Lynch says
that English language is a mess and he speaks about two
kinds of lexicographers. Some of them prefer to clean up
everything that is weird like the spelling and, on the other
hand, some others prefer to define the language just the way it
is used by people.
According to these two ways of thinking, the book is about the
tension between describing and prescribing.
•Describing: it is about setting some rules in a language
that should be followed for people who want to speak
properly this language.
•Prescribing: it can only occur after the language has
been described.
