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Home activities
Exercise 1.
Read the statements. Circle the true or false. 
1.
Sentence is universal linguistic phenomenon while phrase is not 
True / False 
2.
According to I. Mestchaninov languages are classified into nominative, 
ergative and passive 
True / False 
3.
The element of a phrase can be morphologically equal or unequal 
True / False 
4.
Greenberg found out only two variants of word order: S+P+O, S+O+P. 
True / False 
5.
According to Greenberg, the English and Russian languages belong to the 
SPO word order type. 
True / False 
6.
If the elements are syntactically unequal, one of them modifies the other. 
True / False 
7.
According to Vladimir Skalicka, fixed word order is characteristic of 
agglutinational and isolating types. 
True / False 
8.
The principal element is called the ―adjunct‖ or ―head word‖. 
True / False 
Exercise 2
. Fill the table below. Write the types and definitions of phrases in the 
missed places according to its structural feature. 
English ___________
all elements are 
obligatory 
Expanded
to read and 
translate 
the 
text – 
expanded 
elements 
are 
equal in rank
Extended
_________________________
_________________________
_________________________
_________________________
__: 
a beautiful flower 
–
a very 
beautiful flower

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Russian 
Simple
_____________
_____________
_____________
_____________
_____________
_____________
_____________
 
 
Complex
(three 
and 
more notional 
words) 
Example:____
____________
____________
____________ 
- 
Uzbek 
Simple 
(consists of two 
notional words) 
Example:_____
_____________
_____________
_____________
_____________
_____________ 
____________
 
(consists 
of 
extending the 
members 
of 
simple 
word 
combination) 
осмондаги уч 
ўрдак, 
ҳаммадан 
аълочи ўқувчи 
 
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Activities for self-improvement 
Exercise 1.
Work in pairs. Learn carefully the clusters below. Find general 
differences of word-combinations of three compared languages and compare them 
with your partner. 
 
In English: 
In Russian: 

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In Uzbek:
 
 
 
TOPICS FOR PRESENTATIONS 
1.
Definitions of phrases in compared languages. 
2.
Structure and classification of phrases of English, Russian and Uzbek languages. 
3.
Criteria of connection of words in phrasess. 
4.
Syntactic connection in compared languages. 
5.
Comparison of the structure of phrases in compared languages. 
6.
Comparison of thedistinctive feature of Uzbek, English and Russian phrases. 

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SEMINAR 13. TYPOLOGY OF SENTENCE IN ENGLISH AND 
NATIVE LANGUAGES 
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