
- •The noun. Semantic classification.
- •2. The category of number. Irregular plurals.
- •3. Singular and plural invariable nouns.
- •4. The case of noun. The use of the genitive case.
- •5. The use of the indefinite article with countable nouns.
- •6. The use of the definite article with countable nouns.
- •7. The use of articles with abstract nouns .
- •8. The use of articles with material nouns.
- •9. The use of articles with names of persons.
- •10. The use of articles with place names.
- •12. The adjective (Function, comparison, intensification)
- •13.Substantivized adjectives
- •14.Subjunctive II
- •15.The conditional mood
- •18.Oblique moods in simple sentences.
- •19.Oblique moods in nominal clauses.
- •20. Oblique moods in adverbial clauses.
- •21. The sentence. The structural classification. The simple sentence.
- •22.Communicative types of sentences
- •23. The subject. Ways of expressing the subject.
- •24. The subjects “It” and “There”.
- •25. The predicate verb complementation. Intransitive Verbs.
- •26. The predicate. Monotransitive verbs.
- •27. The predicate. Ditransitive and copular verbs.
- •28. Agreement of the predicate with the simple subject. Pronouns as subjects.
- •29. Agreement of the predicate with phrasal and homogeneous subjects.
- •30. Word order. Emphasis. Invertion.
- •31. The attribute. Ways of expressing.
- •32. The Object. Ways of expressing. Types of objects and complements.
- •The formal Object It
- •33. The adverbial modifier.Ways of expressing.Semantic classes.
- •34. Predicative complexes which can be any part of the sentence
- •5) Adverbial modifier
- •35. Predicative complexes that function as objects only
- •Obj. Constr. With verbals The obj. With the Inf. Constr.
- •The Use of the Objective with the Inf. Constr. As a Direct Object
- •The use of the Obj. With the Inf.Constr. As an Indirect Non-perfect Object
- •Objective constructions with non-verbals
- •36. Predicative complexes that function as adverbials only
- •The Absolute Nominative with Participle II Construction
- •Prepositional Absolute Construction
- •IV. Prepositional absolute constructions with non-verbals.
- •I couldn’t move my legs. It was as if they were stuck to the floor. (predicative clause)
- •It seems that they have no experience in this work. (predicative clause)
- •I recognized her the moment I saw her. (the moment as soon as)
- •I don't understand why he behaves as he does.
- •I was never allowed to do things the way I wanted to do them.
- •If you will come this way, the manager will see you now.
- •If you give me ten pounds (first), I'll stop smoking.
- •If it will make you happy (as a result), I’ll stop smoking.
- •I had to accept the fact, improbable though/as it was.
- •I don't blame you, and neither do I doubt your honesty.
- •Disjunctive coordination
- •I've forgotten everything (that) I learnt at school.
The noun. Semantic classification.
The noun is a notional word which refers to people, things, ideas, feelings, qualities…
Morphological composition
Simple(cat, desk, floor)
Derived :
- abstract nouns( arrival, meeting, election, width)
- concrete noun (servant, student, dancer)
Compound nouns (airport, bluebird, living room, parents-in-law)
Semantic characteristics
Nouns can be divided into 2 groups – proper nouns and common nouns.
A proper noun is used for a particular person, place, thing which is, or is imagined to be , unique.
Common nouns are subdivided into count nouns and uncount nouns. Count nouns denote objects that can be counted: they may be either concreate(table, tree) or abstract(idea, question). Uncount nouns are names of objects that cannot be counted. They may be material(silver,milk) or abstract(love, friendship). Many nouns which are generally uncount can also be count in certain contexts: Education should be free\ she received a very good education.
Cheese is rich in cholesterol/ she prefers French cheeses.
There are a number of nouns in Engl. which refer to a set of objects collected together. These nouns are called collectives nouns. They include group nouns, nouns of multitude and mass nouns.
Group nouns refer to groups of individuals: army, crew, crowd, family, minority. G. nouns also include proper names, such as the name of a country denoting a national team(England) or the name of a business company. In Am.E a sing. Group noun takes a sing. verb. In Br. a sing. group may be treated as either sing. or pl., depending on the point of view of the writer.
Nouns of multitude are used as plural but have no plural ending: people, police, clergy, gentry, cattle, livestock.
Mass nouns fall into 2 groups: those which are always used in the sing. and those which are always used in the pl. The sing. Mass nouns denote the substance which is divisible into separate things: furniture consist of pieces of furniture, grass consists of separate blades of grass. Some more: clothing, food, homerwork, mail.
Ex: The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence.
The plural mass nouns are marked by the plural endings -s: archives, belongings, clothes, earnings, goods.
2. The category of number. Irregular plurals.
Number is the form of the noun which shows whether one or more than one object is meant. Some nouns in English have the sing. and the pl. forms. These nouns are called variable nouns. Other nouns are used either only in the sing. or only in the pl. they are called invariable nouns. Variable nouns can be regular plurals and irregular plurals.
-Some nouns ending in –f form their pl. changing –f into –v:wife-wives, shelf-shelves, leaf-leaves, loaf-loaves, half-halves.
Exceptions: beliefs, proofs, roofs, cliffs, cuffs.
Both : scarfs\scarves, handkerchief/ handkerchieves.
-Mutation: man-men, mouse-mice / ox-oxen.
-Some nouns have the same form in both sing. and pl.
* nationality nouns: Japanese, Swiss
* quantitative nouns: hundred, million,dozen
* nouns in –S: series, species, means, works, crossroads
* animal names: sheep, deer, cod, salmon.
Not e that the names of many animals and birds have two forms. However, when you are referring to them in the context of hunting or when you are saying that there there are large numbers of them it is quite common to use the form without -st even though you are referring to several animals or birds- They hunted gazelle. Note that the plural Form of the verb is used when several animals or birds are the subject of the sentence, even if you use the form without S: Zebra are a more difficult prey. Similarly, when you are referring to a large number of trees or plants growing together, you can use the singular form of their names. When you are referring to a small number or to individual trees or plants. you usually use the form with -s. The same rule can be applied to the noun fish. The pl. fishes is relatively uncommon compared with the zero plural. In cases of variation, the s-plural typically draws attention to the individual specimens, the zero plural to the animals as a group.
We caught three little fishes
My dreams are like silvery fish: I grab at their tails, hut they wriggle front my grasp
loans: foreign plurals often occur along with regular plurals. They are commoner in technical usage, whereas the s-pl is more natural in everyday language; thus formulas(general)
— formulae (in maths), antennas (general and in electronics) — antennae {in biology).
Some typical number inflections of loan words: stimulus-stimuli, opus-opera, phenomenon-phenomena, stratum-strata, appendix-appendices, index-indices.