Some practice on voice and mood

1. Define the Voice form:

• They kissed each other

• The war began

• The kettle was filling with water

• He was elected in 1996.

• Usually I wash myself before breakfast

• He became influenced by the rumours

• John got married two days before.

• The poor fellow gets punished almost every day

• He walked Andrew eight miles that first day

• The apparatus ran itself and observed itself.

• It is so dynamically produced and acted that I found myself enjoying it.

• Labour MPs got disturbed at the arrogant attitude of Downing Street.

• One feels half disembodied sitting like a shadow at the door.

• The knitting becomes frenzied at times

• Let us drink champagne when we meet again.

2. Define Moods (forms and meanings) in the following sentences:

• Be he there I should learn everything.

• Long live our Red Army!

• I wish I were there.

• I could have done this.

• If she had been there she would have done everything.

• Tomorrow I might go to Boston.

Seminar four phrases.

TYPES OF SYNTACTICAL CONNECTION WITHIN A PHRASE.

1). Try to remember the following types and kinds of phrases (different criteria employed):

• subordinative – coordinative;

• subordinative: agreement, government, accumulation, enclosure (framing, embedding);

• subordinative: attributive, objective, adverbial;

• endocentric – exocentric;

• elementary – expanded;

• predicative – non-predicative;

• binary – multiple;

• free – grammatically fixed;

• syndetic – asyndetic;

• NP, VP, Adj P; Prep P.

2). Name the elements of phrases (H. Sweet, H. Whitehall).

3)Comment upon the relations between the components of phrases in Kruisinga”s and Jespersen’s works.

4)Mark the difference between the Sentence and the Phrase.

Some practice on phrases.

1. Define the phrases applying different terms and classifications:

• Tom and Mary ran away sweet, polite persons

• the arrival of the train some old

• disregard the remark she was upset and in diamonds

• this book - these books my husband and she

• round tables black and white

• around the table a James Cameron film

SEMINAR FIVE

Simple sentence in traditional and structural grammar grammars

1. The definition of the Sentence

2. The main parts of the Sentence

3. The secondary parts of the Sentence and their functions.

Some practice on sentence structure analysis

1. Define the types of the Subjects:

1) This pretty girl is my sister’s friend

2) Nothing endures but personal qualities

3) To see is to believe

4) It’s necessary for him to die

5) I knew of there being no one to help him

6) He was seen to enter the hut.

2. Define the types of the Predicates:

1. He was strong enough for that

2. We can assist our oppressed brothers in South Africa

3. Does anyone know of that but me?

4. He became angry.

5. Mike is a great thinker

6. The boy was difficult to understand

7. It’s nothing

8. The lunch was over

9. The important thing is to see.

10. He does not dare to speak.

11. I want to jump it over

12. To die for her, he felt, was to have lived and loved well

13. The test was not difficult but funny

14. He’ll make a pause

15. She feels well

16. She feels the melody of the evening.

3. Define the type of the Sentences:

1. These books are very good

2. Are we going to have an accident?

3. Who’s she? – My sister.

4. What shall we do? – Go.

4. Analyze the following sentences with the help of Traditional Grammar terms:

1. She was late for an important interview because she had missed the bus

2. Halloween is a holiday on which children dress up in unusual costumes

3. There is no need that anyone should know about it

4. What her name is is still unknown

5. He sings fine but he doesn’t play the guitar, which bothers him a lot

6. John was very tired and his face was pale and worn

7. I can’t admire a person whose son is a thief

8. I think I can trust him

9. He didn’t believe her so she left him

10. The problem was how they could get in time.