Теоретична граматика

d – A – N₁ - N_head V_ing - N_head
d – N₁ – N₂ - N_head V_ed - N_head
d – N_head – prep. – d - N
d – N’s - N_head


Exercise 6. Classify the following verb phrases according to the nature of the adjunct. Take into consideration the valency of the verb:
to have a friend; to come at five o’clock; to treat him well; to call John; to cry aloud; to be tired; to answer my letter; to receive a letter; to speak fluently; to look beautiful; to understand everything; to show a picture to the baby.


Exercise 7. Write out the subordinate word-groups. Give their structural patterns. Define the grades of subordination.
1. And yet the News Chronicle is one of the big-circulation British newspapers. 2. The trees in the Battersea Gardens across the river had a faded look of the summer end (Mansfield). 3. Next morning, comfortably seated on the verandah of the hotel, with his legs up, Dr. Sanders was reading a book (Maugham). 4. He knew every stop, every junction, every swamp along the way (O’ Connor). 5. He was too much of the individual to care about the house (Faulkner). 6. Barbara Barstow was a woman of about fifty, tall, well-built and forceful. Her voice was loud, heartly and masculine (Dubridge).


Content Module III
Seminar 2
Syntax of the Simple Sentence.


Objectives:

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  to evaluate students’ level of mastering the theoretical material on the theme discussed;
  
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  to foster students willingness and readiness to explore various aspects of English composite sentence and text preparing them for further scientific research on the issues of the theory of grammar.
  

Questions for discussion:

1. Sentence as the main communicative unit of the language.

2. Predicative characteristics of the sentence. Types of predication.
3.Structural characteristics of the sentence (constituent structure, paradigmatic structure). One-member and elliptical sentences in ME.
4. Principal parts of the sentence.
5. Secondary parts of the sentence.