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Словообразование упражнение №8

Read the texts below and decide what part of speech in A, B, C or D best fits each gap in the sentences.
Cereals are various species of the grass family, (1) _______ for their seed, which is used as food. The name is (2) _______ from Ceres, the Roman goddess of grains and agriculture. Although the cereals do not belong to any (3) _______ tribe of the grasses, the use of particular species as bread plants seems to have been determined chiefly by the (4) _______ size of the seed or by the (5) _______ of obtaining it in (6) _______ quantity and of freeing it from its (7) _______ covering. The most (8) _______ cultivated grains are wheat, barley, rye, oats, rice, corn or maize. These have all been cultivated since ancient times. Maize is the only grain that (9) _______ in America; the others were developed in Europe, Asia, and Africa.


1.
cultivation
cultivable
cultivated
cultivar

2.
derived
derivative
derivation
deriving

3.
particularly
particularity
particularized
particular

4.
superiority
superior
superiorly
super

5.
easy
easily
ease
easement

6.
suffice
sufficient
sufficiency
sufficiently

7.
edible
edibly
eat
edibility

8.
extensively
extensive
extent
extensible

9.
origin
original
origination
originated