Practical Tasks

I. Identify the type of syntactic relations between the phrase components,

distinguishing coordinate phrases: syndetic or asyndetic, subordinate

phrases: bilateral or monolateral (objective: non-prepositional or

prepositional, direct or indirect; attributive; adverbial):

older and wiser and better he’s gone

a careful observer simple if interesting

an observer, seemingly careful he will come back

remember him to be or not to be

the nation’s wealth for me to read

to go in great happiness his playing the music

swimming, jogging, skating deeply hurt

stand the noise the case for examination

a woman of fashion an acute problem

very much at ease seemingly frivolous

agreed, but reluctantly run like a tiger

lie beside the chair turn abruptly

work on the problem show me the picture

(be) obsessed by a demon (be) full of spite

II. Analyze the following subordinate phrases according to:

1. types of subordinative relations;

2. the position of the adjunct in the phrases (prepositional or postpositional);

3. manner of subordination;

4. the morphological nature of the kernel:

these rules done by his cousin repeat with the insistence he has gone

the utmost assurance his habit

in a loud voice strikingly alike

old houses join in the chase

scraped her knee one of the children

such-like privileged intention of doing smth.

Seminar 3 syntax of the simple sentence: traditional view Topics for Discussion

1. The structure of the simple sentence. The notion of a predicative line.

2. Structural classifications of the simple sentence:

a) one-member/two-member sentences;

b) complete and elliptical sentences; the problem of differentiation of one-member

sentences and elliptical sentences.

3. Sentence parts classification. Approaches to the analysis of the sentence structure: the

traditional scheme of sentence parsing (the main sentence parts, the secondary

sentence parts); the model of immediate constituents (the IC-model).

4. Paradigmatics of the simple sentence.

Topics for Reports

1.Semantic classification of simple sentences (Blokh M.Y. A Course in Theoretical

English Grammar. Moscow, 2006, P. 302)

2. Immediate constituents analysis (from E. Nida “Morphology” and R. Wells “Immediate constituents” in the book by Blokh M.Y., Semionova T.N., Timofeyeva

S.V. Theoretical English Grammar. Seminars. Moscow, 2007, Pp. 328-332)