Asian Journal of Research in Social Sciences and Humanities

The actuality of the article is conditioned by the further investigation of productive ways of word formation in modern English in comparison with other languages. In spite of the fact that there are many works devoted to the issues of wordformation, the language system is changeable and at different periods of time some ways of word formation become popular and productive, some of them become secondary. Thus, word composition is one of the productive ways of word formation in modern English.