Some Practice:
Analyse the types and the structures of the following sentences:
If this plan is to bring confidence to the population of the island, it must be adequately thought over and discussed.
If the conference is to be a success, if the tests are to be stopped, public opinion must take itself felt.
They have at the same time drawn attention to what they regard a reasonable delay in dealing with their claim for a 15 per cent increase in wages.
My room is more fantastic than usual. It has all the appearance of having been at some time a corridor, though possibly it is really a section of what was once an immense drawing-room.
The republicans are already cashing in what seems to them certain victory.
He didn’t sing it as I thought he should.
He made more than necessary.
He will be here by 8 o’clock unless he has a car trouble.
Since I love music I’m always ready to go the Opera house.
Now that you’ve got a new car, your girl-friend is very assured.
It is strange that he hasn’t gone to Italy.
Our idea is that everything might happen.
It smelled as if something was rotten.
The question is how the matter was to be kept quiet.
What we need is what we are deprived of.
He went on asking why he was in such a hurry.
They became aware that television had robbed the cinema of its former popularity.
He was the most remarkable-looking man that I had ever seen.
It was as if these men and women had matured.
Should you have some time, call on me, sweetie.
SEMINAR 6. Types of Adverbial Clauses. Revision: the Verbids.
1.Name the types of Adverbial Clauses. Comment on the links (connect sentences). Give examples.
2. Revision: definitions of the 3 Verbids, their functions with YOUR OWN examples.
Some Practice:
1. Define the type of the Clause WILL BE GIVEN LATER.
2. Comment on Detachment, Apposition and Specification of the parts of the sentence. Translate them into Russian:
1. With massive backing and considerable extra resources, the Children’s Department could play a decisive role in finally breaking through the old ideas and prejudices.
2. The speaker of the New South Wales State Legislative Assembly, Mr. Raymond Septimus Maher, was committed for trial here today on a charge of indecent exposure.
3. By deciding to postpone a decision on whether to expel Greece, the council of Europe Ministers have shown how empty is their talk of democracy and how tender they are toward fascism.
4. Politely, but firmly, they told him that they would not be shaken.
5. Mr. F.C. Goldfield, an estate agent and would-be big land developer almost sobbed in public yesterday on behalf of the poor widows of Walderslade, near Chathan, Kent.
6. The sun is slanting, an hour above the horizon now, above the swift coming of the summer night.
7. And now he knows that she is watching him: the grey woman not plump and not thin, manhard, in a serviceable grey garment worn savage and brusque, her hands on her hips, her face like of generals who have been defeated in battle.
8. To many, language is the most important form of human communication.
9. Defeated by the noise of the traffic, splashed with mud from the grinding wheels, he still kept on plodding along the gutters.
10. Presently, utterly humble, he began to have some notion of apologizing to the girl.
SEMINARS 7-8. Transformational and Generative Grammars.
Comment on the basic terms and notions of Transformational Grammar.
Block’s treatment of the Paradigmatic Structure of the Sentence – Ch.XXV: comment upon and put 8 questions.