- •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:
5. Pick out nexus phrases in the following sentences and define their types.
1. Kathleen drove, as she always did, Norah never having learnt how to. (William Trevor). 2. It said earlier on the radio there’d be showers but there wasn’t a trace of one, the October evening without a breeze, dusk beginning. (William Trevor). 3. It was wholly out of the question to write. Tom lined out “respectable young man, aged thirty-five”; and sat looking on, pen in hand; with one of the most living smiles imaginable (Ch. Dickens). 4. Hat in hand, his hair disordered, his lips parted, he cleaned his way along (A. Cronin). 5. Returning, coat and jackets over his pyjamas, a scarf round his neck, hat still on the back of his head, he would hang over the telephone… (A. Cronin). 6. But they won’t let you go without Mason being alone (Th. Dreiser). 7. Soams is very fond of you – he won’t have anything said against you (J. Galsworthy). 8. For you to come here is impossible (J. Galsworthy). 9. Small wonder that we all loved him so exceedingly (O. Jespersen). 10. But with him dead there was time and space in which to prepare to do other things (J. London). 11. I hope I’m not the same now, with all the prettiness and youth removed (O. Jespersen). 12. I catch cold! No fear (O. Jespersen).
6. Identify the syntactic relations:
1. I hate you to go there. 2. I want you to go there. 3. He likes them to sing. 4. I saw him approaching the house. 5. He watched them play. 6. He ordered the boxes to be taken upstairs. 7. He did not wish his voice to be recognized.
7. Analyse the structures of predication in the following sentences. Pick out homonymic patterns. Translate the sentences.
1. He had some other party arranged for that afternoon (W. Thackeray). 2. He had a suspicion that the servants had a man secreted somewhere on the premises (Ch. Dickens). 3. …the young man had his beard buried in his hands (O. Wilde). 4. We shall soon have the mists rising (A. Hornby). 5. He soon had them all laughing (A. Hornby). 6. We shall have the house painted. (A. Hornby). 7. “It was major Dobbin who took back the captain’s body to Brussels,” the sergeant said in a low voice, “and had him buried as your honour khows” (W. Thackeray). 8. “It’s quite true,” he said, “he’s gone to Buenos Aires, started this morning – we’d better have him shadowed when he lands” (J. Galsworthy). 9. We have a number of witnesses here, and we are all anxious to have them heard (Th. Dreiser). 10. I wouldn’t for the world have him think I had any feeling (D. Parker). 11. …we can’t have it all begin over again (J. Galsworthy). 12. “I must see about his clothes,” she said to Imogen, “I can’t have him going up to Oxford all anyhow!” (J. Galsworthy). 13. “Now, Mary June” said Aunt Kate, “don’t annoy Mr. D’Arcy. I won’t have him annoyed” (J. Joyce). 14. All the guests stood up, glass in hand (J. Joyce). 15. I haven’t had the house watched (Th. Dreiser). 16. He looked defiantly around the table, his eyes flat, his face pale (E. Hemingway). 17. “I have to be emphatic, Mr. Holmes, for the time is so limited. I would not have him find me here for the world (C. Doyle). 18. The General had two horses shot under him (A. Hornby). 19. She had not minded Frederick risking his own life. (A. Bennett).
1. He had his eyes closed to prevent himself from catching even a fleeting glimpse of his frightening predicament. (D. Brown)