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In order to make students aware of some specific linguistic...

In order to make students aware of some specific linguistic and grammar aspects, and increase lexical knowledge, a teacher presented them two groups of words to be examined and discussed.

Group 1: coal – festival – meal – litoral – petal – seal – vial – goal

Group 2: arrival – denial – refusal – burial – betrayal – approval – survival – referral

The teacher’s word choice had a didactic intention as he/she planned to ask questions aiming at guiding students’ observations and insights. Choose the item displaying the criterion that justifiesthe teacher’s word choice in both groups.


A

The shaping of nouns follows diverse ways.


B

AL is classified as an inflectional morpheme.


C

The AL suffix always forms nouns from verbs.


D

Noun formation originates from regular verbs.