- •Seminar 5 noun: the categories of number, case and article determination
- •Get ready to answer the questions below.
- •2. Find Russian equivalents for the following terms; give definitions.
- •3. Use a dictionary to split the nouns into 1) countable; 2) singularia tantum nouns; 3) pluralia tantum nouns. Illustrate their use in context (sentences):
- •7. Arrange the phrases into two columns according to the type of their casal semantics (on the principle of differentiating between possession and qualification) and use the proper articles with them:
- •8. Study the poem below and explain the use of genitive case in it.
- •9. Use the appropriate article, define its meaning and explain your choice with the help of substitution or replacement test like in the model.
- •10. Is the non-use of article meaningful in the examples below? What does the zero article mean in each case?
- •Seminar 6
- •Verb and its non-finite forms (verbids)
- •Кобрина, н.А. Теоретическая грамматика современного английского языка: учебное пособие / н.А. Кобрина, н.Н. Болдырев, а.А. Худяков. – м.: Высшая школа, 2007. – с. 61-75.
- •Get ready to answer the questions below.
- •2. Find Russian equivalents for the following terms; give definitions.
- •4. State the difference between the marked verbs in the following sentences and identify the subclasses the verbs belong to.
- •5. Group the verbs below into actional and statal. Explain your decisions.
- •6. Give contexts to illustrate their complementive and uncomplimentive usage.
- •7. А) Compare the usage of gerunds and infinitives in the sentences below and explain their semantic differences.
- •8. A) Read the poems below and say what parts of speech the words in bold belong to.
7. Arrange the phrases into two columns according to the type of their casal semantics (on the principle of differentiating between possession and qualification) and use the proper articles with them:
officer's cap, young man's thesis, tomorrow's important press-conference, mile's distance, Wilde's last epigram, yesterday's unexpected storm, hour's walk, last poem of Shelley, new children's shop, two weeks' journey, day's work, in ... two months' period, nice children's caps, new women's magazine, three hours' walk.
8. Study the poem below and explain the use of genitive case in it.
SEA FEVER
And all I ask is the wheel's kick and the wind's song
and the white sail's shaking,
And а great mist оn the sea's face and а grey dawn
breaking.
I must go down to the seas again, to the vagrant gypsy lifе,
То the gull's way and the whale's way where the wind's
a whetted knife.
John Masefield
9. Use the appropriate article, define its meaning and explain your choice with the help of substitution or replacement test like in the model.
Model: ... children continued to gallop about the room and didn’t pay any attention to their mother, who was trying to calm them down. - The children (those very children, who were in the room, the children of this woman, their mother: identification) continued to gallop about the room...; … child is a blessing. - A child (any child, every child: relative classifying generalisation) is a blessing; ... children like to play pranks. - Children (in general: absolute generalization, abstraction) like to play pranks.
1) ... man seemed to be very much upset. 2) ... man is worth saving, no matter how unimportant he is. 3) ... man is the only intellectual creation of nature. 4) ... house was built three years ago. 5) He wanted to buy … house.
10. Is the non-use of article meaningful in the examples below? What does the zero article mean in each case?
1) He was wearing a grey shirt and grey flannel trousers. 2) Usually I have bread and butter and coffee for breakfast. 3) You need special knowledge to take up this job. 4) Blood is thicker than water. 5) “PLS ADVISE SOONEST DELIVERY DATE RGDS PETROV” 6) Man was given language to conceal his thoughts (Talleyrand). 7) Terrorism should be fought worldwide.
Seminar 6
Verb and its non-finite forms (verbids)
Sources:
Блох, М.Я. Теоретическая грамматика английского языка / М.Я. Блох. - М.: Высшая школа, 2003. – С. 95-112, С. 113-134.
Блох, М.Я. Практикум по теоретической грамматике английского языка / М.Я. Блох, Т.Н. Семенова, С.В. Тимофеева. – М.: Высшая школа, 2004. – С. 141-143, С. 144-147.
Additional:
Иванова, И.П. Теоретическая грамматика современного английского языка / И.П. Иванова, В.В. Бурлакова, Г.Г. Почепцов. - М.: Высшая школа, 1981. – С. 46-50, С. 80-87.
Кобрина, н.А. Теоретическая грамматика современного английского языка: учебное пособие / н.А. Кобрина, н.Н. Болдырев, а.А. Худяков. – м.: Высшая школа, 2007. – с. 61-75.
Смирницкий, А.И. Морфология английского языка / А.И. Смирницкий. - М.: Изд-во лит-ры на иностранных языках, 1959. – С. 211-256, С. 197-211, 369-373, 400-432
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