Microsoft Word Theoretical Course of English Grammar

Nino Kirvalidze
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In a broader morphological interpretation, suppletivity can be recognized in paradigmatic 
correlations of some modal verbs, some indefinite pronouns, as well as certain nouns of peculiar 
categorial properties. Cf.: can – be able (to); must – have (to); may – be allowed (to); one – 
some; man – people, etc. 
As for analytical forms which are so typical of modern English that they have made this 
language into the classical representative of lingual analytism, they deserve some special 
comments on their substance.
The traditional analytical morphological form represents a combination of an auxiliary 
word with a basic word
. The classical analytical forms in the English grammar are:
1.
verbal perfect (
have/had gone
); 
2.
continuous (
is/was going
); 
3.
perfect-continuous (
have/had been going
) forms;
4.
passive voice (
is/was built
);
5.
interrogative (Do/did you go?) and negative (You don’t/didn’t go) forms of present 
and past indefinite;
6.
future tense with the auxiliaries 
shall
and 
will 
(I shall/will go), etc.
These are mostly 
grammatically idiomatic forms
, whose relevant grammatical meaning is 
not immediately dependant on the meaning of their component elements taken apart. In the 
above-enumerated analytical grammatical forms the auxiliaries 
have
, 
be
and 
do
have so utterly 
lost their original meanings of possession, existence and doing something, that they are 
interpreted as the most standard and indisputable analytical forms of English morphology.
Study Questions: 
1.
How are grammatical categorical meanings defined? 
2.
Define the concept of grammatical category. 
3.
Define the concept of a paradigm and paradigmatic opposition. 
4.
What features must the correlated elements of the grammatical opposition possess? 

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Theoretical Course of English Grammar 
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Nino Kirvalidze
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5.
What’s the difference between the strong and the weak members of the grammatical 
opposition? 
6.
How many ways of grammatical word-forming are there in modern English? 
7.
How do synthetical grammatical forms differ from the analytical ones? 
8.
Define the essence of inner inflection. Give examples. 
9.
Define the essence of outer inflection. Give examples. 
10.
Define the essence of suppletivity. Give examples. 
11.
What does an analytical morphological form represent? 
12.
Name some examples of classical analytical forms in English grammar.