Theoretical Grammar of English

MINISTRY OF HIGHER AND SECONDARY SPECIALIZED EDUCATION


Uzbek State World Languages University
A.T. Iriskulov
Theoretical Grammar of English
Tashkent 2006

Reviewed by: A. Kuldashev
R. Alimardanov

Layout and design: E. Ablyazizova

Contents


Lecture 1

Language and Speech Levels 5
Lecture 2
The Grammatical Structure of a Language 8
Five Signals of Syntactic Structure 9
Lexical and grammatical Meaning 9
Lecture 3
The Morphemic Structure of the English Language 11
The Types of Morphemes 12
Lecture 4
The Grammatical Categories. …………… …………………………………………… 14
Lecture 5
The Parts of Speech………………… ………………………………………………… 16
Lecture 6
The Noun… 21
The Number and Case in Modern. English Nouns …………………………………. 22
The Category of Case in Nouns 23
Gender in Modern English 24
Lecture 7
The Adjectives 27
The Grammatical Category of Degrees of Comparison… 27
Substantivization of Adjectives 29
Lecture 8
The Verb… 30
Verb as a Part of Speech 30
The Types of Verbs 30
Notional and Functional Verbs 31
Regular and Irregular Verbs 31
Transitive and Intransitive Verbs 32
The Grammatical Categories of Verbs 32
The Category of Voice 32
The Grammatical Category of Mood 34
Other Categories of the Verbs 35
The Category of Posteriority… 37
The Categories of Number and Person 38
Lecture 9
The Adverb… 39
The So-Called Phrasal Verbs 40
Statives or The Words of Category of State 41
Lecture 10
The Functional Parts of Speech… 43
Lecture 11
Syntax… 45
The Subject – Matter of Syntax… 45
The Types of Linguistic Relations Between Words 46
Types of Syntactic Relations 46
Word-Combinations and Their Types 47
The Types of Co-ordinate Phrases 48
The Types of Subordinate Phrases 48
The Types of Predicative Phrases 48
Lecture 12
Sentence 50
The Types of Sentences 51
Types of Sentences according to the Aim of the Speaker 52
Interrogative Sentences 52
Exclamatory Sentences 52
Imperative Sentences 53
Elliptical Sentences 53
One -member Sentences … ………………………………………………………. 54
Lecture 13
Composite Sentences 56
Compound Sentences 56
Complex Sentences 57
The Types of Complex Sentences 57
The Structural Approach to the Problem of Composite Sentences 58
Назарий грамматикага оид таянч атамалар лу\ати 59
References 69