- •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:
Literature:
1. Rayevska N.M. Modern English Grammar. – Kyiv: Vysca Skola Publishers, 1976. – P. 190-194, 220-224, 228-232, 242-249.
2. Бархударов Л.С. Структура простого предложения современного английского языка. – М., Высшая школа, 1966. – С. 77-113, 128-136.
3. Иванова И.П., Бурлакова В.В.. Почепцов Г.Г. Теоретическая грамматика английского языка. – М.: Высш. шк., 1981. – С. 141-143, 192-193.
4. Грамматика английского языка: Морфология. Синтаксис: учебник / Н.А. Кобрина, Е.А. Корнеева, М.И. Оссовская, К.А. Гузеева. – СПб.: Союз, 2009. – С. 401-422.
Seminar 3 The Simple Sentence. Structural and Communicative Approaches
1. Theoretical Comment.
The notion of a predicative line; the simple sentence as a monopredicative construction. Predication Vs predicativity. Mood and modality. Ways of expressing modality. The problem of sentence completeness: complete and incomplete (elliptical) sentences. One-member and two-member sentences; their correlation with complete and elliptical sentences. Grammatical organization of nominal and verbal sentences; their semantic-stylistic peculiarities. Communicative types of sentences. The controversial status of exclamatory sentences.
2. Practice.
1. Pick out the grammatical categories relevant for expressing predicativity:
order |
mood |
voice |
aspect |
tense |
number |
person |
2. Choose the terms out of those listed below which classify sentences: a) according to the purpose of communication; b) according to their structure. Suggest equivalent terms in Ukrainian.
declarative |
interrogative |
one-member |
exclamatory |
composite |
two-member |
imperative |
simple |
3. Pick out two-member elliptical sentences out of the underlined. Analyse their grammatical structure:
1) What are you thinking of? – My childhood. 2) My childhood! The best time of my life!
3) A wonderful warm night, gracious and inviting! 4) What kind of night was it? - A wonderful warm night, gracious and inviting! 5) You were looking the very piece of beauty that day! 6) That piece of beauty! How well he remembered it. 7) “How on earth did she do a thing like that?” “Does it for fun. Always doing it” (A. Christie). 8) Why not go there? 9) I will not help her. - Why not?
4. Analyse the following sentences. Pick out one-member nominal sentences and identify their modal meaning:
1) Waves. Small sounds of soft complaint. Cedars. Deep-blue sky. He was suddenly aware of a faint but all-penetrating sense of loss (Fitzgerald).
2) Scene 1. A room in Harley Street furnished as the Superintendent’s office in a Nursing Home (A. Christie).
3) Fog everywhere. Fog up the river, where it flows among…medows: fog down the river, where it rolls defiled among the tiers of shipping… Fog in the eyes and throats of ancient Greenwich pensioners… (Ch. Dickens).
4) What if she made him a confession? (J. Galsworthy).
5) No word from her. No change in her. Her eyes upon him. (Ch. Dickens).
6) “Order! Order!” Grenkin shouted (A. Cronin).
7) “Silence in the court!” (Ch. Dickens).
8) Day and night again. The monotony was unbroken. (Ch. Dickens).
9) Rest-peace. Let a poor fellow rest. (J. Galsworthy).