Словообразование упражнение №4

Read the texts below and decide what part of speech in A, B, C or D best fits each gap in the sentences.

A number of individual diamonds have become (1) _______ , (2) _______ because of their size. The largest of all (3) _______ diamonds is the Cullinan, which was discovered in South Africa in 1905 and was (4) _______ to Edward VII, king of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ire¬land, by the government of the Transvaal. The Cullinan weighed 3,106 carats before cutting and was pronounced by crystallographers to be a fragment of a (5) _______ larger stone. When the stone was cut, a total of 105 gems were produced, (6) _______ 1,063 carats in all. The largest of these was a stone called the Star of Africa, the biggest cut diamond in (7) _______ , and now set in the British (8) _______ scepter.

1. famed famous famously fame	2. primacy primary prime primarily	3. knew known knowing knowledge	4. present presence presented presenting
5. considerably considerable considering considered	6. weight weigh weighed weighing	7. exist existing existed existence	8. royally royal royalty royals