- •Brief contents of the course:
- •I. Grammar as a linguistic study
- •Two branches of grammar – morphology, syntax
- •Glossary of Linguistic Terms
- •II. Grammar form, meaning, category
- •Glossary of Linguistic Terms
- •Additional reading
- •Practical tasks:
- •III. Wordbuilding and wordchanging
- •Additional reading:
- •Practical tasks:
- •IV. Synthetic means of expressing grammatical meaning and their role in the modern English
- •Additional reading
- •V. Analytical means of expression of grammar meaning and their role in the modern English
- •Аdditional reading
- •VI. Parts of speech and the principles of their classification
- •Additional reading
- •Practical tasks:
- •VII. Noun. The general description
- •Additional reading
- •VIII. Noun. The category of number
- •Additional reading
- •Practical Tasks:
- •IX. Noun. The category of case
- •X. Noun. The category of gender.
- •Additional reading
- •XI. Article, its role and function. The number of articles in English
- •Additional reading
- •XII. Adjectives. Their grammatical categories.
- •Categories of adjectives:
- •Substantivisation of adjectives
- •Adjectivisation of nouns
- •Additional reading
- •XIII. Adverbs. Classification of adverbs.
- •Additional reading
- •Practical tasks:
- •Additional reading:
- •XV. Verb. The category of voice.
- •Additional reading
- •Practical tasks:
- •XVI. Verb. The category of mood.
- •Additional reading
- •XVII. Verb. The categories of tense, aspect and time correlation.
- •Additional reading
- •Practical tasks:
- •XVIII. Verb. The categories of person and number
- •Additional reading
- •The gerund
- •Additional reading
- •Additional reading
- •Practical tasks:
- •XXI. Pronouns
- •Additional reading
- •XXII. Numeral
- •Additional reading:
- •XXIII. Words of the category of state, statives
- •Additional reading
- •XXIV. Functional parts of speech. Preposition
- •Conjunctions
- •Particles
- •Interjection
- •Glossary of linguistic terms:
- •Additional Reading:
- •XXVIII. The notion of syntactic relations. Their main types.
- •Government
- •Glossary of linguistic terms:
- •Additional reading:
- •XXX. Semantic and pragmatic aspects of the sentence
- •Glossary of linguistic terms:
- •Additional reading:
- •Practical tasks:
- •XXXI. The Structural aspect of the sentence
- •Glossary of lingustic terms:
- •Additional reading:
- •XXXII. The actual aspect of the sentence
- •Additional reading:
- •Glossary of linguistic terms
- •Additional reading:
- •XXXV. Models of syntactic analysis. Parts of the sentence
- •The lady listened
- •Small to me attentively
- •Glossary of linguistic terms:
- •XXXVI. The model of immediate constituents
- •Glossary of linguistic terms:
- •Additional reading:
- •Practical tasks:
- •XXXVII. The distributional model
- •Glossary of lingustic terms
- •Additional reading:
- •Practical tasks:
- •Glossary of linguistic terms:
- •Additional reading:
- •XXXX. Predicate
- •Glossary of linguistic terms:
- •Additional reading:
- •XXXXIII. Loose parts of sentence
- •Loose Attributes
- •Additional reading:
- •Practical tasks:
- •XXXXIV. Complex, compound and
- •Intermediary types of sentences
- •The absolute construction
- •Glossary of linguistic terms:
- •Additional reading:
- •XXXXV. The composite sentence. Compound sentences
- •Glossary of linguistic terms:
- •Additional reading:
- •XXXXVI. Types of subordinate clauses
- •Subject clauses
- •Object clauses
- •Attributive clauses
- •Types of adverbial clauses
- •Causal Clauses
- •Conditional Clauses
- •Clauses of Result
- •Clauses of Purpose
- •Clauses of Concession
- •Other Types of Adverbial Clauses
- •Appositional clauses
- •Parenthetical clauses
- •Glossary of linguistic terms:
- •Additional reading:
- •Practical tasks:
- •XXXXVII. The problem of higher syntactical units
- •Glossary of linguistic terms
- •Additional reading:
- •Practical tasks:
- •Revision Tasks
- •Contents:
- •Bibliography
Revision Tasks
Account for the ambiguity of some of these sentences:
Sergent: “Who likes moving pictures?”
(Most of the men eagerly step forward.)
“All right, you fellows carry the pictures from the basement to the attic.”
- What has four legs and flies?
I don’t know.
A dinner table.
A lady had just bought a postage stamp.
“Must I stick it on myself?”
“Positively not, Madame. It will accomplish more if you stick it on the envelope.”
– Is the chicken big enough to eat when it’s 2 days old?
Of course, not!
Then how does it manage to live?
Contents:
page
Grammar as a linguistic science.
Morphology. 1
2. Grammatical form, meaning and category. 4
3. Wordbuilding and wordchanging. 9
Synthetic means of expressing grammatical meaning.
Their role in the Modern English. 11
Analytical means of expressing grammatical meaning.
Their role in the Modern English. 13
6. Parts of speech and the principles of their classification. 15
7. Noun. The general description. 19
8. Noun. The category of number. 20
9. Noun. The category of case. 22
10. Noun. The category of gender. 24
11. Article, its role and function. The number of articles in English. 25
12. Adjectives. Their grammatical categories. 27
13. Adverbs. Classification of adverbs. 30
14. Verb. The general characteristics. 32
15. Verb. The category of voice. 34
16. Verb. The category of mood. 36
17. Verb. The categories of tense, aspect and time correlation. 38
18. Verb. The categories of person and number. 40
19. Non-finite verbs (Verbids). Infinitive and gerund. 41
20. Non-finite verbs. Participles. 44
21. Pronouns. 46
22. Numeral. 48
23. Words of the category of state, statives. 49
24. Functional parts of speech. 50
25. Modal words. 53
Syntax
26. Sentence and phrase as the main objects of syntax. 54
27. Classification of phrases. 56
28. The notion of syntactic relations, their main types. 57
29. The sentence and its aspects. 59
30. The semantic and pragmatic aspects of the sentence. 60
31. The structural aspect of the sentence. 63
32. The actual aspect of the sentence. 65
33. Predication and modality. 66
34. Elliptical sentences. 68
35. Models of syntactic analysis. Parts of sentence. 70
36. The model of immediate constituents. 71
37. The distributional model. 73
38. The transformational model. 74
39. Principal parts of sentence. Subject. 76
40. Predicate. 78
41. The secondary parts of the sentence. 82
42. The apposition, direct address, parentheses and insertions. 90
43. Loose parts of sentence. 93
44. Complex, compound and intermediary types of sentences. 95
45. The composite sentence. Compound sentences. 100
46. Types of subordinate clauses. 104
- Subject clauses 105
- Predicative clauses 106
- Object clauses 106
- Attributive clauses 108
- Adverbial clauses 109
- Clauses of place 109
- Clauses of time 110
- Causal clauses 111
- Conditional clauses 112
- Clauses of result 112
- Clauses of purpose 113
- Clauses of concession 114
- Clauses of manner and comparison 115
- Other types of subordinate clauses 117
- Appositional clauses 117
- Parenthetical clauses 118
47. The problem of higher syntactical units. 120
48. Revision tasks 130