Ministry of higher and secondary special education of the republic uzbekistan state world languages university

Languages	agreement	government
contact
English
Russian
Uzbek

Exercise#4. Brainstorm the definitions of phrases in compared languages.


Exercise#5. Discuss with your group some differences in classifying and naming the phrases in compared languages according to the type of syntagmatic relations.

English
Russian
Uzbek

Exercise#6. Work in a small group. Compare and find similarities, differences and distinctive features of three types of dependent relation in compared languages: agreement, government, and adjoining (contact). Share your analysis with other groups.

	Similarities	Differences	Distinctive features
Agreement
Government
Adjoining

Exercise#7. Proof with your own examples the following comparative analysis of phrase.

1. In English and Uzbek, the adjunct of an attributive phrase can be expressed by a passive infinitive.

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This type of phrase in non-existent in Russian. The idea is rendered by a subordinate clause.

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2. The English, the Russianand the Uzbek languages differ significantly in the means of expressing syntactical connections in a phrase. In Russian and Uzbek all the three ways of connection are used. In English, the use of government and agreement is restricted to the phrases with pronouns.

E.g.:_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

3. In English attributive phrases denoting objects in numerical order, the adjunct expressed by a cardinal numeral is in postposition to the kernel expressed by a noun.

E.g.:_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

4. In the corresponding Russian and Uzbek phrases, the adjunct expressed by an ordinal numeral is in preposition to the headword.

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