
- •Seminar 1 The Phrase. Noun phrases.
- •1. Theoretical Comment.
- •2. Practice.
- •2. Identify the types of phrases with regard to their grammatical organization:
- •3. Make a list of the noun-phrases used in the following passage and describe their structure:
- •4. Point out the phrases of “a jewel of a wife” type. How does the meaning of the components contribute to the overall semantics? Suggest ways of translation.
- •6. Comment on the use of “sort (kind) of Adj (V)” in the following:
- •7. Point out the head and the modifier in each of the following phrases; pick out the reversible ones.
- •8. Give noun-phrases related through nominalizing transformation to the following sentences:
- •9. Analyse the following patterns in which the nouns weaken their meaning of substance and approach adjectives. Translate the sentences into Ukrainian.
- •10. Define by means of transformational analysis the semantic relations between the components of the following noun-adjunct groups. Translate the sentences.
- •11. Comment on the relations between the components of the following noun adjunct groups. Translate them.
- •16. Translate the following:
- •17. Comment on the arrangement of the constituents in the following structures and define their meaning:
- •Literature:
- •Seminar 2 The Phrase. Subordinate Verb-phrases. Predicative Phrases.
- •1. Theoretical Comment.
- •2. Practice.
- •1. Analyse the verb phrases and the character of inner syntactic relations:
- •2. Give comments on the use of the verb-phrases with the cognate object:
- •3. Give comments on the adverbial use of nouns in the following patterns (point out the adverbial relations of comparison, time and different degree of quality):
- •4. Give comments on the structure of adjectival phrases in the following sentences:
- •5. Pick out nexus phrases in the following sentences and define their types.
- •6. Identify the syntactic relations:
- •7. Analyse the structures of predication in the following sentences. Pick out homonymic patterns. Translate the sentences.
- •Literature:
- •Seminar 3 The Simple Sentence. Structural and Communicative Approaches
- •1. Theoretical Comment.
- •2. Practice.
- •3. Pick out two-member elliptical sentences out of the underlined. Analyse their grammatical structure:
- •4. Analyse the following sentences. Pick out one-member nominal sentences and identify their modal meaning:
- •5. Comment on the grammatical organization and modal meanings of the infinitival sentences given below:
- •Literature:
- •Seminar 4 The Simple Sentence: Constituent Structure
- •1. Theoretical Comment.
- •2. Practice.
- •8. Differentiate between the compound verbal and compound nominal predicates. Single out instances of mixed types.
- •9. Comment on the types of attributes and ways of their expression.
- •10. Determine the types of objects and ways of their expression.
- •11. Identify semantic classes of the adverbial modifiers.
- •Literature:
- •Seminar 5 The Composite Sentence
- •1. Theoretical Comment.
- •2. Practice.
- •1. Analyze the type of connectors (if any) and the character of coordination between the clauses of the compound sentences.
- •2. Comment on the type of the sub-clause and the way of connection with the principal one.
- •3. Comment on the type of the sub-clause and the way of connection with the principal one.
- •4. Point out the type of subordination (parallel homogeneous/heterogeneous or consecutive) and the depth of subordination perspective.
- •5. Analyze the following multi-clause sentences. Schematize the connection of clauses.
- •1. Theoretical Comment.
- •2. Practice.
- •5. Form sentences with greater predicative load taking as the basis the following kernel sentences:
- •Literature:
- •Seminar 7 Semantic and Functional Sentence Perspective
- •1. Theoretical Comment.
- •2. Practice.
- •3 Identify the semantic role of the subject in the following sentences:
- •4. Comment on the actual division of the sentences and the means of its expression.
- •5. Comment on the means of expressing the rheme in these sentences:
- •6. Determine the pragmatic types of the sentences:
- •Literature:
16. Translate the following:
Tramp card, afternoon farmer, knight wager, snow man, skeleton crew, corridor train, collar work, play inquiry call, festival music broadcast dispute, for-clock tower decision.
17. Comment on the arrangement of the constituents in the following structures and define their meaning:
a flower garden, a garden flower; a school teacher, a teacher school; a car factory, a factory car; the head office, the office head; candle wax, a wax candle; a station bus, a bus station; oil export, export oil.
Literature:
1. Rayevska N.M. Modern English Grammar. – Kyiv: Vysca Skola Publishers, 1976. – P. 224-225, 234-242.
2. Бархударов Л.С. Структура простого предложения современного английского языка. – М., Высшая школа, 1966. – С. 44-77.
3. Иванова И.П., Бурлакова В.В.. Почепцов Г.Г. Теоретическая грамматика английского языка. – М.: Высш. шк., 1981. – С. 100-109, 114-121, 124-125, 136-141, 149-163.
Seminar 2 The Phrase. Subordinate Verb-phrases. Predicative Phrases.
1. Theoretical Comment.
Grammatical organization of verbal phrases. Object-predicate relations; cognate object. Grammatical organization of adjectival phrases. The use of nexus-phrases in Modern English.
2. Practice.
1. Analyse the verb phrases and the character of inner syntactic relations:
to stay in Helsinki, to stay awake; to leave early, to leave after it started to snow, to leave out of spite, to leave to milk the cow; to walk a great deal, to walk a mile; to wait a minute, to wait a table; to sound a trumpet, to sound a fool, to sound as if in agony; forgot to greet them, ran to wave goodbye, came in to find the room empty.
2. Give comments on the use of the verb-phrases with the cognate object:
1. “Let me go!” And sobbing great, dry, shaking sobs… (A. Sillitoe). 2. George Willard was thinking thoughts of Kate Swift (S. Anderson). 3. He had said his say to Smallwood, he had struck his blow at Bailey (A. Maltz). 4. David Copperfield… slept his Sunday night’s sleep (Ch. Dickens). 5. All smiled their smiles (J. Joyce). 6. Mr. Browdie grinned a grin of special width… (Ch. Dickens). 7. Cowperwood smiled his most ingenuous smile (Th. Dreiser).
3. Give comments on the adverbial use of nouns in the following patterns (point out the adverbial relations of comparison, time and different degree of quality):
a shade darker, a bit louder, sky blue, age long, snow white, ankle deep, stone deaf, lots better, heaps better, a bit longer, iron hard, ash blond, paper white
bone thin, .
4. Give comments on the structure of adjectival phrases in the following sentences:
1. She was proud of her father having been a staff-officer (S. Maugham). 2. I’ll be happy to wait (G. Elliot). 3. She was busy writing out sums upon the blackboard (A. Cronin). 4. Speech was always easy with her (J. London). 5. It begins with an incredibly beautiful line… (K. Mansfield). 6. Mrs. Septimus was the tallest of the four sisters (J. Galsworthy). 7. Certain nooks were curiously rich with wild flowers… (D. Aldington).