polysemantic
Под этим тегом собраны задания на основе многозначности слов.
Blog Post or Narrative
Выберите одну из двух тем и напишите эссе объёмом в 200–250 слов.
1. English is full of words that have drifted so far from their original meaning that they now mean something entirely different – sometimes even the opposite. Imagine that you have been invited to write an explanatory blog post about three English words that used to mean something different.
Your blog post should address the following:
why this phenomenon is surprising and what it reveals about the language;
three words and their original meaning;
how the meaning has changed and in what context they are used now;
a lesson these…
Polysemantic Words
The first given sentence contains the word that can be used in the second sentence. Find this word and use it in the correct grammar form in the second sentence.
First Sentences
The camp was surrounded by a high fence which needed to be patched.
He came across an old book with dog-eared pages that turned out to be a real treasure.
The pond was filled to the brim with fowl and frogs, but one duck stuck out with its magnificent grey plumage.
He could hardly expounded his position more clearly: quite bluntly, any plans to abolish music are described as vain.
Second Sentences
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