- •Seminar 1
- •Seminar 3 The Noun. The Adjective. Topics for discussion:
- •Literature:
- •Fancy the joy of the child getting a toy like this. Much water has
- •Seminar 3 The Noun Topics for discussion:
- •Literature:
- •Fancy the joy of the child getting a toy like this. Much water has
- •Seminar 4
- •Practical tasks
- •Seminar 5
- •Literature:
- •Practical tasks
- •Fancy the joy of the child getting a toy like this. Much water has
- •3.State whether the temporal or modal meaning prevails in ‘shall’ and ‘will’:
- •6.Define the meaning of the verb-forms in the sentences:
- •8.Analyse the meaning of the verb “Should”
- •5. Draw the ic – model and the derivational tree for the following sentences:
- •Seminar 6
- •Practical assignment:
- •Seminar 7 Models of Sentence Analysis
- •Practical assignments:
- •5. Draw the ic – model and the derivational tree for the following sentences:
5. Draw the ic – model and the derivational tree for the following sentences:
The woman sniffed the rose. The police shot the man in the right arm. The police shot the man in the red cap.
6. “Denominalize” the phrases:
The invitation of the writer, the roaring of the lion, the shooting of lions, the shooting of hunters.
7. State the deep structure of the sentences:
He is eager to please. He is easy to please
8.Compare the semantic structure of the following sentences:
John broke the window with a stone. A stone broke the window. The window broke.
The boy dug the sand. The boy dug a cave.
Define the means of expressing the rheme. Translate into Russian:
A shot was fired. A bird few by . A girl entered the room. Even a child could do it.
Seminar 8
Composite sentence. Units larger than a sentence.
Topics for discussion:
1.The Composite sentence. General characteristics. Parataxis and hypotaxis.
(Blokh ,282-295; Kobrina , Ilуish , Ioffik 181-182.)
2. The compound sentence : means and types of coordination. Semantic relations between coordinate clauses.
(Ilyish, 264-268; Bloch,323-330; Kobrina,423-427)
3. The complex sentence: approaches to classification of complex sentences. Indicators of subordination.
(Ilyish,269-274; Blokh, 295- )
4. Text as a unit of grammar .Discourse and text. Text categories and characteristics.
(Ioffic, 199-201; Bloch ,351- , compilation 9-10, 1-3)
5.Text structure and its components.
(Blokh, 357-362), compitation,12-13.
Practical assignments
Divide the text ‘Language’ into paragraph. Point to cohesive relations between them or within them.
2. Analyse sentence sequences of monologue and dialogue SPU.
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