- •Seminar one. The problem of parts of speech classification.
- •Seminar two. The noun. The categories of case and number. The adjective, the adverb and the category of degrees of comparison.
- •1. The noun. The categories of number and case.
- •The verb.
- •Some practice on tense and aspect
- •The verb. The categories of voice and mood.
- •Some practice on voice and mood
- •Seminar four phrases.
- •Some practice on phrases.
- •Simple sentence in traditional and structural grammar grammars
- •Some practice on sentence structure analysis
- •1. Define the types of the Subjects:
- •Simple sentence in structural grammar
- •Some practice on sentence structure analysis
- •The communicative and semantic structures of the sentence
- •Practical task:
- •Transformational and generative grammars.
- •Some practice:
- •Text grammar.
- •1. Point out means of expressing Text categories:
- •Analyze the following composite sentences:
- •Group the following words on the grounds of:
- •Name the Parts of Speech:
- •Explain the meaning of the Genitive:
Some practice on voice and mood
Define the Voice form:
They kissed each other
The war began
The kettle was filling with water
He was elected in 1996.
Usually I wash myself before breakfast
He became influenced by the rumours
John got married two days before.
The poor fellow gets punished almost every day
He walked Andrew eight miles that first day
The apparatus ran itself and observed itself.
It is so dynamically produced and acted that I found myself enjoying it.
Labour MPs got disturbed at the arrogant attitude of Downing Street.
One feels half disembodied sitting like a shadow at the door.
The knitting becomes frenzied at times
Let us drink champagne when we meet again.
Define Moods (forms and meanings) in the following sentences:
Be he there I should learn everything.
Long live our Red Army!
I wish I were there.
I could have done this.
If she had been there she would have done everything.
Tomorrow I might go to Boston.
Seminar four phrases.
TYPES OF SYNTACTICAL CONNECTION WITHIN A PHRASE.
1). Try to remember the following types and kinds of phrases (different criteria employed):
subordinative – coordinative;
subordinative: agreement, government, accumulation, enclosure (framing, embedding);
subordinative: attributive, objective, adverbial;
endocentric – exocentric;
elementary – expanded;
predicative – non-predicative;
binary – multiple;
free – grammatically fixed;
syndetic – asyndetic;
NP, VP, Adj P; Prep P.
2). Name the elements of phrases (H. Sweet, H. Whitehall).
3)Comment upon the relations between the components of phrases in Kruisinga”s and Jespersen’s works.
4)Mark the difference between the Sentence and the Phrase.
Some practice on phrases.
1. Define the phrases applying different terms and classifications:
Tom and Mary ran away sweet, polite persons
the arrival of the train some old
disregard the remark she was upset and in diamonds
this book - these books my husband and she
round tables black and white
around the table a James Cameron film
SEMINAR FIVE
Simple sentence in traditional and structural grammar grammars
The definition of the Sentence
The main parts of the Sentence
The secondary parts of the Sentence and their functions.
Some practice on sentence structure analysis
1. Define the types of the Subjects:
1) This pretty girl is my sister’s friend
2) Nothing endures but personal qualities
3) To see is to believe
4) It’s necessary for him to die
5) I knew of there being no one to help him
6) He was seen to enter the hut.
2. Define the types of the Predicates:
He was strong enough for that
We can assist our oppressed brothers in South Africa
Does anyone know of that but me?
He became angry.
Mike is a great thinker
The boy was difficult to understand
It’s nothing
The lunch was over
The important thing is to see.
He does not dare to speak.
I want to jump it over
To die for her, he felt, was to have lived and loved well
The test was not difficult but funny
He’ll make a pause
She feels well
She feels the melody of the evening.
3. Define the type of the Sentences:
These books are very good
Are we going to have an accident?
Who’s she? – My sister.
What shall we do? – Go.
4. Analyze the following sentences with the help of Traditional Grammar terms:
She was late for an important interview because she had missed the bus
Halloween is a holiday on which children dress up in unusual costumes
There is no need that anyone should know about it
What her name is is still unknown
He sings fine but he doesn’t play the guitar, which bothers him a lot
John was very tired and his face was pale and worn
I can’t admire a person whose son is a thief
I think I can trust him
He didn’t believe her so she left him
The problem was how they could get in time.