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Contents

Introduction.

CHAPTER I. PARTS OF SPEECH IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE.

1.1. Parts of speech in traditional grammar.

1.2. What is a noun?

1.3. Information about verb.

1.4. Grammatical features of pronoun.

1.5. What is an adjective?

1.6. Adverb as a part of speech.

Conclusion.

Bibliography.

Introduction

In traditional grammar, a part of speech or part-of-speech (abbreviated as POS or PoS) is a category of words (or, more generally, of lexical items) that have similar grammatical properties. Words that are assigned to the same part of speech generally display similar syntactic behavior—they play similar roles within the grammatical structure of sentences—and sometimes similar morphology in that they undergo inflection for similar properties.

Commonly listed English parts of speech are noun, verb, adjective, adverb, pronoun, preposition, conjunction, interjection, numeral, article, or determiner. Other Indo-European languages also have essentially all these word classes; one exception to this generalization is that Latin, Sanskrit and most Slavic languages do not have articles. Beyond the Indo-European family, such other European languages as Hungarian and Finnish, both of which belong to the Uralic family, completely lack prepositions or have only very few of them; rather, they have postpositions.

Other terms than part of speech—particularly in modern linguistic classifications, which often make more precise distinctions than the traditional scheme does—include word class, lexical class, and lexical category. Some authors restrict the term lexical category to refer only to a particular type of syntactic category; for them the term excludes those parts of speech that are considered to be functional, such as pronouns. The term form class is also used, although this has various conflicting definitions. Word classes may be classified as open or closed: open classes (like nouns, verbs and adjectives) acquire new members constantly, while closed classes (such as pronouns and conjunctions) acquire new members infrequently, if at all.

Almost all languages have the word classes noun and verb, but beyond these two there are significant variations among different languages.[3] For example:

Japanese has as many as three classes of adjectives, where English has one.

Chinese, Korean, Japanese and Vietnamese have a class of nominal classifiers.

Many languages do not distinguish between adjectives and adverbs, or between adjectives and verbs (see stative verb).

Because of such variation in the number of categories and their identifying properties, analysis of parts of speech must be done for each individual language. Nevertheless, the labels for each category are assigned on the basis of universal criteria

Topicality of course work can be clearly explained when you consider that reader will be able to get some precious information about specific phonetic features in the variants of the English language.

The aim of the qualification paper to inform reader about the work of phonetics, to represent those who work on phonetic features of English language.

The tasks of the course work include:

- phonetics as a branch of linguistics.

- branches of phonetics.

- analysing the relations of phonetics with other sciences.

-analysing and comparing realistic peculiarities of the works of representatives of the period.

Results and novelty of the qualification paper: Phonetics as a linguistic science. The functional aspect of speech sounds. We analsyse and compare the works of representatives that period.

We also tried to give brief definition and description to the period with the help of works of representatives of the period.

Practical value of the qualification paper. Materials presented in the qualification paper are useful for the students of foreign languages departments in studying the history of English language and its development stages. Qualification paper may serve as an additional source for doing self-study tasks, reports and other assignments in the History of English Language.

Objects and methods of the research. Specific phonetic features in the variants of the English langauge was taken as an object of our research. In doing the work we used the method of literature review in working with materials, lingual analysis method in analyzing and comparing peculiar features of works of the period.

Structure of the qualification paper. The qualification paper consists of introduction, main part and its chapters, a conclusion and the list of used literature.

Introduction mainly deals with the research specifications and considers briefly the research aims, tasks, topicality and value.

The first chapter of the work is on the literature review about the realism and history of English literature.

The second chapter is devoted to the analysis and comparison of works of representative of realistic period of English language.