Литература

1. Lowth Robert.A Short Introduction to English: With Critical Notes / Robert Lowth. – Philadelphia: Printed by R.Aitken, 1799.

2. Clair, Colin. History of Printing in Britain, Oxford University Press, 1966.

3. M.Y.Bloch. A Course in Theoretical English Grammar / Теоретическая грамматика английского языка Questions

1. Give the definition of a "part of speech".

2. What two aspects characterize the word?

3. Name four approaches to a problem of a part of speech.

4. Name the principle of the prescriptives and the brightest grammarian of that period.

5. Name the principle of the descriptivists and the brightest grammarians of that period.

6. Name the principle of the descriptivists structuralists and the brightest grammarians of that period.

7. Name three components of the complex approach.

8. Illustrate the classification of functional words given by Fries.

Exercises

1. 1. Identify the meaning of the article in utilized phrases:

a) A 12-year-old boy got mad at his parents Friday night because they refused to let him go fishing on the Colorado River with relatives. So, while his parents were distracted during a barbecue with eight adult friends, he slipped away from his sister and three brothers, snatched the keys to a Volkswagen Beetle and drove off in one of his parent’s four cars, prompting fears that he had been kidnapped. [ j El Cajon police sent teletyped descriptions of the curly haired, 90-pound sixth-grader to law enforcement agencies throughout Southern California and the Arizona border area. The boy was found unharmed - but scared and sleepy - at about noon yesterday by San Diego County sheriffs deputies.

b) I’m looking for a millionaire, she says, but I don’t see any round

c) I feel terrible. I need a friend.

d) We have wine on the table, girls, drink it.

e) We have telephones and we talk to people

f) The Mercedes took a hard bounce from a pothole. "Christ,' said Sherman, “I didn’t even see that.” He leaned forward over the steering wheel. The headlights shot across the concrete columns in delirium.

2. Illustrate the cases of omission of the article due to the semantic, syntactic and stylistic reasons.

3. Explain the usage or absence of the article:

a) Fish live in water,

b) There's sand in my shoes;

c) It wasn’t your fault, it was an accident.

d) Listen! Can you here music?

e) Did you hear a noise just now'? - 1 can't work here. There’s too much noise

f) Enjoy your holiday have a good time! - I can't wair. I haven’t got time

g) I’m looking for a job. - I’m looking for work.

h) A man and a woman were sitting opposite me. The man was Amen can but I think the woman was British.

4. Match the suffixes with their meanings.

-ette	a) Action or instance of V-ing
-ism	b) State or skill
-ance, -ence	c) Action or state of V-ing; state of being
-ant, -ent	d) A small thing, object, etc.
-cy	e) State or quality of being
-ship	f) A person who V-s, something used for V-ing
-tion	g) Ideology, movement, tendency