XII. Provide homonyms for the italicized words in the following jokes and extracts and classify them according to the classification system

B. Explain the homonyms which form the basis for the following jokes. Classify the types as in part a.

XI. a. Classify the following italicized homonyms.

C. Find the homographs to the following words and transcribe both.

B. Find the homophones to the following words, translate them into Russian or explain their meanings in English.

Heir, dye, cent, tale, sea, week, peace, sun, meat, steel, knight, sum, coarse, write, sight, hare.

1. To bow — to bend the head or body. 2. wind — air in motion. 3. to tear— to pull apart by force. 4. to desert — to go away from a person or place. 5. row — а number of persons or things in a line.

1. a) He should give the ball in your honour as the bride, b) The boy was playing with a ball. 2. a) He wished he could explain about his left ear. b) He left the sentence unfinished. 3. a) I wish you could stop lying. b) The yellow mouse was still dead, lying as it had fallen in the crystal clear liquid. 4. a) This time, he turned on the light, b) He wore $ 300 suits with light ties and he was a man you would instinctively trust anywhere. 5. a) When he's at the door of her room, he sends the page ahead, b) Open your books at page 20. 6. a) Crockett's voice rose for the first time. b) I'll send you roses, one rose for each year of your life. 7. a) He was bound to keep the peace for six months, b) You.should bound your desires by reason. 8. a) The pain was almost more than he could bear. b) Catch the bear before you sell his skin. 9. a) To can means to put up in airtight tins or jars for preservation, b) A man can die but once.

1. Сhild: Mummy, what makes the Tower of Pisa lean?

Fat mother: I have no idea, dear, or I'd take some myself.

2. Advertisement: "Lion tamer wants tamer lion."

3. Father: Didn't I tell you not to pick any flowers without leave?

Child: Yes, daddy, but all these roses had leaves.

4. The difference between a cat and a comma is that a cat has its claws at the end of its paws, and a comma has its pause at the end of a clause.

5. A canner exceedingly canny

One morning remarked to his grannie:

"A canner can can anything that he can,

But a canner can't can a can, can'e?"

1.Teacher: Here is a map. Who can show us America?

Nick goes to the map and finds America on it.

Teacher: Now, tell me, boys, who found America?

Boys: Nick.

2. "What time do you get up in summer?"

"As soon as the first ray of the sun comes into my window."

"Isn't that rather early?"

"No, my room faces west."

3. "Here, waiter, it seems to me that this fish is not so fresh as the fish you served us last Sunday." "Pardon, sir, it is the very same fish."

4. Old Gentleman: Is it a board school you go to, my dear?

Child: No, sir. I believe it be a brick one!

XIII. Do the following italicized words represent homonyms or polysemantic words? Explain reasons for your answers.

1. 26 letters of the ABC; to receive letters regularly. 2. no mean scholar; to mean something. 3. to propose a toast; an underdone toast. 4. a hand of the clock; to hold a pen in one's hand. 5. to be six foot long; at the foot of the mountain. 6. the capital of a country; to have a big capital (money). 7. to date back to year 1870; to have a date with somebody. 8. to be engaged to Mr. N; to be engaged in conversation. 9. to make a fire; to sit at the fire(place). 10. to peel the bark off the branch; to bark loudly at the stranger. 11. A waiter is a person who, instead of waiting on you at once, makes you wait for him, so that you become a waiter too.

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