The System of Parts of Speech /the Noun, the Adjective, the Adverb, the Numeral, the Pronoun/

Aim: to lead the students to a scientific understanding of the questions of Morphology as the part of Grammar.

Professional Orientation: to enable the prospective teachers to properly understand the grammatical level of the English language.

Main notions: notional and functional parts of speech, criteria for parts of speech classification.

Lecture plan

1. The Parts of Speech Classification.

2. The Problem of Notional and Functional Parts of Speech.

3. The Noun.

4. The Adjective.

5. The Adverb.

6. The Numeral.

7. The Pronoun.

Methods: interactive

Questions for individual studying:

1. What part of speech is present in Modern English but doesn’t exist in Modern Ukrainian?

2. What do we call analytical, synthetic and suppletive forms of the word?

3. Give a comparative characteristics of the Singularia Tantum and pluralia Tantum semantic groups of nouns in modern English and Modern Ukrainian.

4. Why is –‘s so shiftable?

5. What counts to the fact that not all the adjectives can be used in the comparative and the superlative degree?

6. Dwell on the question of substantivization of adjectives and adjectivization of nouns.

Self- control Questions:

1. What are the principles of the traditional classification of words into parts of speech?

2. What is the lexico-grammatical meaning of the noun?

3. What is the lexico-grammatical meaning of the adjective?

4. What is the lexico-grammatical meaning of the adverb?

5. What is the lexico-grammatical meaning of the numeral?

6. What is the lexico-grammatical meaning of the pronoun?

7. What grammatical categories does the noun have?

8. What grammatical category does the adjective have?

9. What grammatical category does the adverb have?

10. What grammatical categories do different classes of pronouns have?

Literature Recommended

1. Иванова И.П., Бурлакова В.В., Почепцов Г.Г. Теоретическая грамматика современного английского языка. – Москва: Высшая школа, 1981. – С. 14-99.

2. Blokh M.Y. A Course in Theoretical English Grammar. – Москва: Высшая школа, 1983. – С. 49 – 228.

3. Ilyish В. The Structure of Modern English. – Ленинград: Просвещение, 1971. – C. 36- 170.

4. Khaimovich B.S., Rogovskaya B.I. A Course in English Grammar. Москва: Высшая школа, 1987. – С. 51 -219.

1. The Parts of Speech Classification.

The words of language are divided into lexico-grammatical classes /types, sets, series/ of words, which are traditionally called "parts of speech". In modern linguistics, parts of speech are discriminated on the basis of the following criteria:

• the lexico-grammatical meaning /the "categorial meaning of the part of speech", i.e. the meaning common to all the words of the given class/;

• stem-building elements;

• the morphological categories;

• combinability /i.e. the ability to combine with other words/;

• the syntactical function in the sentence.