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title: Building words: prefixes, suffixes and compounds — the lesson's questions with trees and pragmatics · Language
description: The 15 test and exam questions of lesson 37 «Building words: prefixes, suffixes and compounds» of the language course of Mova's primary school, each with its options, Mova's choice and the right answer, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Building words: prefixes, suffixes and compounds

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The 15 questions of lesson 37 «Building words: prefixes, suffixes and compounds» of the language course of Mova's primary school with their options, 86 sentences, every one parsed by Mova with its syntax tree and pragmatics. How the student did on them: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/language/37-building-words-prefixes-suffixes-and-compounds/).

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- [t1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/37-building-words-prefixes-suffixes-and-compounds/t1/) — Gran snaps "-ish isn't a word, it's lazy talk!" What's true? — right ✓ · ★
- [t2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/37-building-words-prefixes-suffixes-and-compounds/t2/) — Your mate goes "there's ham in a hamburger, obviously, it's in the name." What's the truth? — right ✓ · ★
- [t3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/37-building-words-prefixes-suffixes-and-compounds/t3/) — Your Leicester mate says "proper good, me duck" about your drawing. ("Me duck" means love or dear.) What does she think of it? — wrong ✗ · ★
- [t4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/37-building-words-prefixes-suffixes-and-compounds/t4/) — What would happen if nobody had ever split "hamburger" into "ham" + "burger"? — right ✓ · ★
- [t5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/37-building-words-prefixes-suffixes-and-compounds/t5/) — Your little sis writes "hopefull" in her story. What do you tell her? — wrong ✗ · ★
- [t6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/37-building-words-prefixes-suffixes-and-compounds/t6/) — A Gen Alpha kid says "brunch and smog are just slang, they don't count." What's fairer? — right ✓ · ★
- [t7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/37-building-words-prefixes-suffixes-and-compounds/t7/) — Ollie reckons "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" is the longest real word in every dictionary. What's true? — wrong ✗ · ★
- [t8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/37-building-words-prefixes-suffixes-and-compounds/t8/) — Your grandad from Liverpool says "burglar must come from burgle, lad, verbs come first." What's true? — right ✓ · ★
- [t9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/37-building-words-prefixes-suffixes-and-compounds/t9/) — Your mate makes "misunderstand" and asks what "mis-" adds. What's the answer? — wrong ✗ · ★
- [t10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/37-building-words-prefixes-suffixes-and-compounds/t10/) — Your cousin from Perth says "grab ya togs, we'll take a selfie at the beach." ("Togs" means swimming costume.) What is a selfie? — wrong ✗ · ★
- [t11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/37-building-words-prefixes-suffixes-and-compounds/t11/) — Which of these is a compound word? — wrong ✗ · ★
- [e1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/37-building-words-prefixes-suffixes-and-compounds/e1/) — Identify the constituent parts of the word "unhappiness". — right ✓ · exam
- [e2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/37-building-words-prefixes-suffixes-and-compounds/e2/) — Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the formation of the verb "burgle"? — wrong ✗ · exam
- [e3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/37-building-words-prefixes-suffixes-and-compounds/e3/) — Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the word "hamburger". — wrong ✗ · exam
- [e4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/37-building-words-prefixes-suffixes-and-compounds/e4/) — Ascertain the meaning conveyed by the suffix "-less" in the word "hopeless". — wrong ✗ · exam

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