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I.The university alumni were invited to the fundraising gala. (Referring to former students/graduates).
II.She is a very ingenious person, always trusting everyone too easily. (Referring to naive/innocent).
III.The doctor prescribed a laxative because the patient was constipated. (Referring to the inability to pass stools).
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I.Back-formation is the process of reducing a word to a shorter version which belongs to a different word class, often by removing a supposed affix, such as forming the verb "to edit" from the noun "editor".
II.Blending involves combining two separate words to produce a single new term that shares the meaning of both, but unlike compounding, parts of the original words are usually deleted, as in "smog" (smoke + fog).
III.Both processes are strictly restricted to informal slang and are not recognized in standard English dictionaries or academic writing, being considered grammatical errors.
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