Theoretical english grammar assessment

Chapter 11
STATIVES OR THE WORDS OF CATEGORY OF STATE
1. What words are called statives? Why are they called so?
2. There's no unanimously accepted conception on this group of words, why?
3. What is the main difference between statives and other notional parts of speech?
4. Are there any other terms that name this group of words?
5. Why are these words develop so fastly?
6. How are these words translated into your native language?
Chapter 12
THE FUNCTIONAL PARTS OF SPEECH
1. What is the main difference between notional and functional parts of speech?
2. What subtypes of functional words do you know?
3. What is the function of this group of words in languages?
4. What do you understand when you read the sentence “The relationship of function words to notional parts of speech is linked to that of mortar and bricks?”.


Chapter 13
SYNTAX
1. What does syntax study?
2. What types of linguistic relations between words do you know?
3. Do the conceptions of all grammarians coincide in defining the types of syntactic relations in languages?
4. What is the difference between paradigmatic and syntagmatic connections between words?
5. What is the difference between coordination, subordination and predication?
6. What do you know about G. Pocheptsov`s approach to “Constructional syntax”?
Chapter 14
SYNTAX OF THE PHRASE
1. What is phrase (word - combination)?
2. What is the difference between a word and a phrase?
3. What is the difference between a word and a phrase and a sentence?
4. What conceptions of phrase (word-combination) do you know?
5. What are the criteria to distinguish the types of phrases?
6. What types of phrases do you know according to the syntactic relations between the constituents of phrases?
7. What types of phrases do you know according to the word-groups constituting them?
8. What do you know about combinations of functional words which are used as connectors and specifiers of notional words.