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References:
Savelieva N. O. –
Candidate
of
Philologica l
Sciences,
Associate
Professor of English Philology Depart ment of Luhansk
Taras Shevchenko National Un iversity.
Krysalo O. V. –
Candidate of Philologica l Sc iences, Associate Professor
of the Department of Translation Studies of Luhansk
Taras Shevchenko National Un iversity.
Mygovych I. V. –
Candidate
of
Pedagogical
Sc iences,
Associate
Professor of English Philology Depart ment of Luhansk
Taras Shevchenko National Un iversity.
De mi dov D. V.
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Theoretical English Gra mmar : the manual for part-t ime students
of higher educational institutions / Denys Vale riyovych De midov ;
The State institution ―Luhansk Taras Shevchenko National
University‖. – Luhansk : Luhansk Taras Shevchenko National
University, 2014. – 121 p. – in English.
The manual in Theoretical English Grammar consists of three chapters: I. Lecture
material. II. Practical classes. III. Individual task. The aim of the course is developing
linguistic thinking in students, scientific understanding of grammar and lexical categories
in the English language. A special attention is p aid to the problematic issues of grammar
theory at the modern stage of
linguistics development, the issues of systemic nature of the
language, dialect unities of form and content of all grammar phenomena, functional and
semantic connections between units of different levels. The issues are discussed in the
comparison with the Ukrainian Language.
The manual is composed for the part-time students of
philology departments of
higher educational institutions.
UDK 811.111’36 (076.6)
BBK 81.2Англ–9
Recommended for publication by the educational and methodological board of
Luhansk Taras Shevchenko National University
(proceedings № 9, dated Apr. 2, 2014)
© Demidov D. V., 2014
© Luhansk Taras Shevchenko National
University Press, 2014
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CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
6
PAR T 1.
LECTURE MATERIAL
Module 1
TOPIC 1.
The
Scope
of
Theoretical
Grammar.
Basic
Linguistic
Notions
8
TOPIC 2.
Basic
Grammatical
and
Morphological Notions
20
TOPIC 3.
The
Theory
of
Grammatical
Classes of Words
42
TOPIC 4.
General Survey of the Noun and
its Categories
54
TOPIC 5.
The Verb
as a Part of Speech
66
TOPIC 6.
General Characteristics of Syntax
and Various Syntactic Theories
76
TOPIC 7.
The Theory of the Word Group
and the Sentence
83