Foscari - Dipartimento di Scienze Ambientali, Informatica e Statistica

The instructions are very clear and do not require any further ___________ .
c It will only take a couple of minutes to __________ how the program works.
d If you are new to this system, almost everything will have to be ____________ .
4 depend, depending, dependent, dependence, dependable, dependably
a The company has supplied us ___________ for over ten years.
b We have to reduce our _____________ on imported goods.
c This is very ______________ equipment. We have never had a serious breakdown.
d Today, many companies______________ more on FAXs than on mail.
5 connect, connected, connecting, connector, connectivity, connection
a ______________is an important concept in global communications.
b He only got that contract because he has ___________ in the government.
c Make sure the ___________________ is not loose before you call a service technician.
d Once the new telephone lines are ______________ , our system should be more efficient.
28 Compound Nouns
The language of computing in English contains an ever-increasing number of compound nouns, that is,
a group of two or more nouns which act as a single noun.
Examples:
memory capacity information systems an address bus
a bar code scanner an arithmetic unit
It is important to be able to recognize how such compounds are formed in order to understand what
they mean.
The exact relationship between the words depends on the particular expression, but all these
expressions have one thing in common: the last word in the chain says what the thing is, while the
preceding word or group of words describes the thing. So when we read compound nouns, we have to
start with the last word and work backwards.
Examples:
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