+++++THEORY OF ENGLISH GRAMMAR. ++++SEMINARS - 2012 ++

Seminar one. The problem of parts of speech classification.

1) Give definitions of the following terms: the Category, the Grammar form and the Grammar meaning;

2) Compare classifications of parts of speech elaborated by M. Blokh, H. Sweet, O. Jespersen and Ch.Fries;

3) Speak on the way the following objective categories can be reflected in English (lexically, morphologically and syntactically): TIME, DEGREE, QUANTITY, MODALITY.

4) What morphological categories are realized in the following oppositions:

speak - am speaking child – child’s

long – longer take – be taken

lover - lovers take – would take

5) Give paradigms of:

bring, to lie, short, lover.

6) Give the grounds of the following grouping:

1/ speaks, trousers, pencils, linguistics;

2/ spoke, wanted. put, built;

3/ introduce, introduced, is introducing, will introduce, has introduced;

4/ will come, was written, has done, is playing, is being asked, should have done;

5/ their, the students’, notebooks of the students;

6/ majority, windows, cattle, news.

7) Try to remember the new terms and define the underlined words with the help of already known and new terminology:

a) notionals ( full words) \\ function words (functional words\ formal words\ empty words);

b) function words: determiners, intensifiers, modals, interjections, negators, etc.

c) relation words: connectors and links;

d) from-words: auxiliaries:

1. After the conversation he went back to the memory of the previous afternoon, just recalling fragments of friendliness and exactly revealed solicitude.

2. Ten years after his famous experiment was performed.

3. Fox longed for the earthquake to shake him back to life.

4. His work began at eight and he went on working till midnight. He went to bed only when he finished it up. Too tired to work, too dulled to talk and simply vaguely satisfied that he had just managed to complete the minimum.

5. One of the things that surely served to darken Clyde’s mood just about the time when he was seeking some practical solution for himself.

6. He stood up to go because everyone else was on the way out and Erik rose with him too.

7. Well! You have never been here since.

8. I look over the rail. There just below me, stand three young men, just too big to be called lads.

9. At this moment the front broke open.

10. A couple of men were carrying the shell to the gun; they looked like workmen in a steel mill.

HOME-WORK:

1) Speak on the Noun, the Adjective, the Adverb/

2) Define the underlined words with the help of already known and new terminology:

1. Only 16 years old she was.

2. Either you or me can do this.

3. This is my book and that one is yours.

4. She is at the window.

5. Go home!

6. She is simply mad.

7. He entered the room the moment she was speaking to her son.

8. I’ll go there after.

9. Once you learn it you will never forget it.

10. I’ve been doing that since Monday.

11. I go there once a week.

12. What else have you got?

13. He is strong though young.

14. The more you learn the better marks you get.

15. They will arrange a sit-in unless the company returns the money.

16. They bought some chairs to sit on.

17. I haven’t done it yet. Is she in?

18. She is yet angry.

19. I came here thanks to them.

20. You’re quite right.