- •1. Basic Assumption of Linguistic analysis and domains of Grammatical Studies
- •2. Noun: gender, number, case
- •There are four types of gender nouns in English.
- •The category of number
- •The category of case of English nouns
- •3. Paradigmatic & Syntagmatic Relations in Grammar
- •4. Noun: Article Determination
- •5. Types of Grammars.
- •6. The Adjective
- •Grammatical Category, Meaning and Form
- •9. Morphemic Structure of the Word.
- •10. Secondary parts. The object
- •11. Grammatical Classes of Words. Parts of Speech.
- •12. Secondary parts. The attribute
- •13. The Verb: Voice, Mood.
- •14. Syntax. Phrases.
- •16. The sentence.
- •17. The Verb: Verbals.
- •18. Functional sentence Perspective (Actual division of the sentence)
- •Irregular comparison
- •20. Composite Sentence as a Polypredicative construction.
- •21. The preposition
- •22. Compound Sentence
- •The conjunction
- •24. Composite sentence. Subject and predicative clauses.
- •25. Indirect speech and Represented Speech.
- •26.Secondary parts. The adverbial modifier.
- •27. The Particle
- •28. Communicative Types of sentences
- •29. Modal words
- •30. Syntactic Relations and Syntactic Connection
- •31. The Interjection
- •2. Extended – Dusk – of a summer night. The grass, this good, soft, lush grass. English spring flowers!
- •33. Parts of Sentence. The main Parts.
- •I can do it. He wants to work.
- •34. The sequence of tenses
- •I told you I’m in a hurry. Somebody asked me where I’m going.
- •35. Adverbial clauses
- •36. Semi-compound sentences
- •37. Attributive clauses
- •38.Semi-complex sentences
- •39.The apposition, Direct Addressis, Parenthesis
- •40. Syndetic Composite sentences.
- •41. Word order
- •42. Asyndetic Composite sentences.
- •I know he is here; This is the man I told you about;
- •43. Object clauses
- •44. Appositional Clause and Parenthetical Clause.
37. Attributive clauses
Attributive clauses serve as an attribute to a noun (pronoun) in the principal clause. This noun or pronoun is called the antecedent of the clause.
Attributive clauses are introduced by means of conjunctive pronouns or adverbs and asyndetically.
Attributive clauses can be limiting, classifying, descriptive.
Limiting attributive clause indicates what particular object is meant; they answer the question which one?The house in which we live is in the center of town.
Classifying attributive clause indicates a class to which the person or thing denoted by the antecedent belongs. The antecedent is a noun or a pronoun modified by the attribute clause.A polygon which has three sides is called a triangle.
Descriptive attributive clause gives additional information about the person or thing denoted by the antecedent. Descriptive attribute clause can be omitted without destroying the meaning of the sentence.
The conjunctive pronouns whom, which, that in the function of an object of a limiting attributive clause can be omitted. The preposition referring to the omitted conjunctive pronoun is placed at the end of the attributive clause. They strolled in the direction of the sea, which was visible down the street.
Appositive attributive clauses refer to abstract nouns reflecting their meaning. They are introduced by the conjunctions that, if, whether, lest, be conjunctive pronouns and adverbs. The girl really had no idea where she had gone.
38.Semi-complex sentences
Semi-composite sentences are divided into semi-compound and semi-complex.
Semi-complex are built up on the principle of subordination and may be subject sharing: The moon rose red; object sharing: We saw her approaching us.
The adjunct to the shared object may be expressed by the Infinitive; Participle 2; an adjective, a noun.
I never heard the voice pronounced like that. Philip ignored the question and remained silent.
There exist constructions in which one explicit predicative line is combined with another one, the latter being not completely expressed. To such constructions belong sentences with homogeneous predicates as well as sentences with verbid complexes. These are semi-composite sentences. Semi-composite constructions are of special preference in colloquial speech.
The semi-complex sentence is a semi-composite sentence built up on the principle of subordination. It is derived from minimum two base sentences, one matrix and one insert.
The semi-complex sentences fall into a number of subtypes. Their basic division is dependent on the character of predicative fusion: this may be effected either by the process of position-sharing (word-sharing), or by the process of direct linear expansion. The sentences based on position-sharing fall into those of subject-sharing and those of object-sharing. The sentences based on semi-predicative linear expansion fall into those of attributive complication, adverbial complication, and nominal-phrase complication.