Seminar 5 Functional Parts of Speech, The Phrase

Parts of Speech

Questions for discussion

1. What parts of speech belong to the class of functional words?

2. What does the preposition express?

3. What differentiates prepositions from subordinate conjunctions?

4. What does the conjunction express? What classes are conjunctions divided

into?

5. Characterize the particle and the interjection as parts of speech.

6. Can modal words be considered a separate part of speech?

The Phrase

Questions for discussion

1. What is the phrase? What are the differential features of the phrase?

2. What principle is the traditional classification of phrases based on?

3. Comment on types of syntactic connections.

4. What differentiates government from agreement?

Practice Assignment

І. State to what part of speech the underlined words belong:

1. ‘Oh, there you are, Mr. Poirot.’ (A. Christie)

2. “Come on in then. I ain’t had time to get cleaned up yet,” she whined.

“Cops, huh?” (R. Chandler)

3. Yet it was a very ordinary face and its prettiness was strictly assembly line.

(R. Chandler)

4. ‘Given her presents, perhaps?’— ‘Oh, no, sir, nothing of the kind.’ (A. Christie)

6. Outside, even through the shut window-pane, the world looked cold. (G. Orwell)

8. The only aristocratic trait they could find in his character was a habit of drinking Madeira. (J. Galsworthy)

9. If only it could be kept from him! (J. Galsworthy)

10.“I may as well tell you that I should have thrown it up, only I’m not in the

habit of giving up what I’ve set my mind on.”

II. State the type of syntactic relations (agreement, government, adjoinment, enclosure):

A negative answer, these books, he comes, to fully understand, to know them, on me, they agreed, lovely face, your lovely smile, with him, to speak

quietly, that shop, gave to him.