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Словообразование упражнение №3

Read the texts below and decide what part of speech in A, B, C or D best fits each gap in the sentences.

Although the Smithsonian Institution may seem an American enterprise, its (1) _______ . He in the bequest of an Englishman, Smithson, who never even visited the United States. In October 1826, James Smithson (2) _______ his will, (3) _______ his vast (4) _______ to his nephew with one proviso: if the nephew died with no (5) _______ , Smithson's estate was to be given "to the United States of America, (6) _______ at Washington, under the name of the Smithsonian Institution, an Establishment for the increase and (7) _______ of knowledge among men". His nephew died, heirless, (8) _______ than seven years after his uncle.


1.
origins
original
originality
originally

2.
writing
written
wrote
writer

3.
left
leaving
leave
leaves

4.
fortunate
fortunated
fortune
fortunately

5.
heirloom
heirs
heiress
heirless

6.
founding
foundation
founded
to found

7.
diffusion
diffusible
diffuse
diffusing

8.
little
least
a little
less