To produce fruit, vegetables, or other foods

to finally agree to do what someone else wants you to do:yield to:

The sport should not yield to every demand that the television companies make.

to give something to someone else:

to finally allow people to see something that has been hidden:

This latest dig has yielded up over a hundred pieces of fine Roman silverware.

yield noun

an amount of something that is produced:

increased crop yields produced on some farms

a yield of over 12% on overseas investments

What is the yield of the barley per acre this year.

After repeated digs his trousers pocket yielded four dollars.

ACTIVITIES

Consult a dictionary and practice the pronunciation of the following words. Mark the main stressed syllables in each of these words.

economize, preference, predicament, immediately, linger, shove, sanctum, bewhisked, squable, equanimity, circumstances, masterpiece, gnaw, perturb

Change the structure of the following adjectives.

Example: a bare — foot girl — a girl who has no shoes on her feet youthful — looking clerk, cranky — eyed boy, bold — headed man, a snow — white — bearded old man.

3. Analyze the structure of the following words:

bewhiskered, carelessness, ceilingward, cardboard, onlooker, ransack, brusqueness

Example: TRANSCONTINENTAL

trans prefix

continent root

al adjective -forming suffix

Complete each sentence with the correct form of the underlined word.

an edit

1. The letter appeared in the new Sunday......of the local

newspaper

print

2. At the exhibition we saw new.......processes.

press

3. The safety of the hostage is a matter of.............concern.

publish

4. What is the most famous...................in Moscow?

Highlight adjectives in the text and give their comparative and superlative degrees.

Example: happy — happier- the happiest

Careful — more careful — the most careful