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6. John lives

in London.

There

Positive

Negative

Uncontracted

Contracted

They’ve come.

They have not come.

They’ve not come.

They haven’t come.

Tom is arriving tomorrow.

Tom is not arriving tomorrow.

Tom isn’t arriving tomorrow.

Tom’s not arriving tomorrow. (The 1st form is more common.)

You ought to have come.

You ought not to have come at all.

You oughtn’t to have come at all.

He will be late.

I can come early.

I shall come early.

He will not be late.

I cannot come early.

I shall not come early

He’ll not be late.

He won’t be late.

I can’t come early.

I shan’t come early.

84.State out the main features of Adverbial modifier .

The adverbial modifier (or the adverbial) is a secondary part of the sentence which modifies another part of the sentence expressed either by a verb (in a finite or non-finite form), or an adjective, or a stative, or an adverb.

In case it modifies a verb the adverbial characterizes the action or process expressed by tlie verb and denotes its quality, quantity, or the whole situation.

The adverbial modifier may refer to:

a) The predicate-verb or to a verbal phrase.

John spoke in a whisper

Bowen read the telegram aloud .

b) The whole of the sentence, especially if placed at the beginning of the sentence.

In the evening they gathered together again.

If an adverbial modifies a non-finite form, it becomes part of a gerundial, participial, or infinitive phrase or construction.

Adverbials are obligatory when the sentence structure demands one or when their absence changes the meaning of the verb. Detached adverbials being more loosely related to the modified parts of the sentence than non-detached adverbials are never obligatory. They are separated from the rest of the sentence by intonation in speaking and by commas in writing. Detachment of adverbials may be caused by various factors, the most important of which are their meaning, the form of expression, their extension, their position in the sentence, or the speaker’s desire for emphasis.

5.Comment on the main features of the Attribute.

The attribute is a secondary part of the sentence which characterizes person or non-person expressed by the headword either qualitatively, quantitatively, or from the point of view of situation. Attributes may refer to nouns and other words of nominal nature, such as pronouns gerunds and substitute words, as in:

It was a letter from his devoted friend.

An attribute may be expressed by different parts of speech:1. By (a) adjectives or (b) adjectival phrases, which characterize the person or non-person qualitatively or express the speaker’s attitude.

a) The sand glittered like fine white sugar in the sun.

I’ve never seen a better place.

Some composite adjectives may be derived from other parts of speech by means of the participle-forming suffix -ed, as in:

It was a low-ceilinged L-shaped room.

Some adjectives have developed from former participles II, as in;

Martin lived with his widowed mother.

b) In any case it gave no clue to the thought then uppermost in Hercule Poirot’s mind.

He stood and raged within himself with sour despair, unable to move or say a word.

2. By pronouns or pronominal phrases, which help to identify or define persons or non-persons.

The woman by no change of face showed that his words meant anything to her.

3. By numerals, ordinal or cardinal, which state the number or order, or serve to identify persons or non-persons, as in:

He arrived just three weeks ago.

4. By (a) nouns in the common case singular or (b) prepositional nominal phrases, which characterize the person or non-person either qualitatively or from the point of view of its locative, temporal, or other features.The nouns are always premodifying attributes, the prepositional nominal phrases are post modifying:

a) It happened on a December evening (декабрьский вечер).

The position of attributes

The position of an attribute depends on the following:

1. The morphological nature of the attribute. Adjectives, participles, gerunds, nouns in the common and the possessive cases, pronouns, ordinal numerals, and quotation nouns generally premodify the headword.

Non-detached attributes

Non-detached attributes form one sense group with their head­word and are not separated from it by commas.

. 87.Dwell on the problem of the complex sentence.

There is much more to be said about the complex sentence than about the compound. This is due to several causes, which are, however, connected with one another.

For one thing, the semantic relations which can be expressed by subordination are much more numerous and more varied than with co-ordination: all such relations as time, place, concession, purpose, etc. are expressly stated in complex sentences only.

Then again, the means of expressing subordination are much more numerous. There is here a great variety of conjunctions: when, after, before, while, till, until, though, although, albeit, that, as, because, since; a number of phrases performing the same function: as soon as, as long as, so long as, notwithstanding that, in order that, according as, etc. Besides, a certain number of conjunctive words are used: the relative pronouns who, which, that, whoever, whatever, whichever, and the relative adverbs where, how, whenever, wherever, however, why, etc.

We may note that the boundary line between conjunctions and relative adverbs is not quite clearly drawn. We shall also see this when we come to the adverbial clauses introduced by the word when and those introduced by the word where (see below, p. 286 ff.). Historically speaking, conjunctions develop from adverbs, and one word or another may prove to be in an intermediate stage, when there are no sufficient objective criteria to define its status.

Above we defined a complex sentence as a sentence containing at least one subordinate clause. Any classification of complex sentences is therefore bound to be based on a classification of subordinate clauses. This will accordingly be our next task.

The problem of classifying subordinate clauses is one of the vexed questions of syntactic theory. Several systems have been tried out at various times, and practically each of them has been shown to suffer from some drawback or other. Some of the classifications so far proposed have been inconsistent, that is to say, they were not based on any one firm principle of division equally applied to all clauses under consideration.

We will first of all point out what principles of classification are possible and then see how they work when applied to Modern English. It is quite conceivable that a sort of combined principle will have to be evolved, that is, one principle might be taken as the ruling one, and the main types established in accordance with it, and another principle, or perhaps other principles, taken as secondary ones and applied for a further subdivision of clauses obtained according to the first principle.

It might also prove expedient to have two different classifications independent of each other and based on different principles.

As we proceed to point out the various principles which may be taken as a base for classification, we shall see that even that is a matter of some difficulty, and liable to lead to discussion and controversy.

88.Simple sentence, main features of the simple sentence.

The basic pattern of a simple sentence in English is one subject-predicate unit, that is, it has two main (principal) positions: those of the subject and of the predicate. It is the pattern of a two-member sentence. There are several variations of this basic pattern, depending mainly on the kind of verb occupying the predicate position. The verb in the predicate position may be intransitive, transitive, ditransitive or a link verb.

Here are the main variants of the fundamental (basic) pattern:

1. John ran.

2. John is a student.

3. John is clever.

4. John learned French.

5. John gives Mary his books.

7. We found John guilty.

8. We found John a bore.

The basic pattern may be unextended or extended.

An unextended sentence contains two main positions of the basic pattern, that of the subject and tlie predicate.

Mary laughed.

Mary is a doctor.

Mary is happy.

An extended sentence may contain various optional elements (including attributes, certain kinds of prepositional objects and adverbial modifiers).

John ran quickly to me.

My friend John is a very kind student.

Mary laughed heartily at the joke.

Obligatory extending elements are those which complete the meaning of other words, usually verbs, or pronouns, which without them make no or little sense. Therefore obligatory elements are called complements.

John learned French. (the meaning of “learned” is incomplete without the object “French”)

John gives Mary his books. (the meaning of “gives Mary” conveys different meaning without the object

“his books”)

John lives in London, (the meaning of “lives” is incomplete without an adverbial of place)

89.Define the classification of the sentence according to the purpose of utterance.

The sentence is a minimal unit of communication. From the viewpoint of their role in the process of communication sentences are divided into four types, grammatically marked: declarative, interrogative, imperative, exclamatory sentences. These types differ in the aim of communication and express statements, questions, commands and exclamations respectively. Declarative sentences

A declarative sentence contains a statement which gives the reader or the listener some information about various events, activities or attitudes, thoughts and feelings. Statements form the bulk of monological speech, and the greater part of conversation. A statement may be positive (affirmative) or negative, as in:

I have just come back from a business trip.

Interrogative sentences contain questions. Their communicative function consists in asking for information. They belong to the sphere of conversation and only occasionally occur in monological speech.

All varieties of questions may be structurally reduced to two main types, general questions (also called “yes-no” questions) and pronominal questions (otherwise called “special” or “wh” - questions). Both are graphically identified by a question mark. The two main types have a number of structural and communicative modifications. In general questions the speaker is interested to know whether some event or phenomenon asked about exists or does not exist; accordingly the answer may be positive or negative, thus containing or implying “yes” or “no”.

A general question opens with a verb operator, that is, an auxiliary, modal, or link verb followed by the subject. Such questions are characterized by the rising tone. A tag question is a short “yes-no” question added to a statement. It consists only of an operator prompted by the predicate verb of the statement and a pronoun prompted by the subject. Generally the tag has a rising tone. An alternative question implies a choice between two or more alternative answers. Like a “yes-no” question, it opens with an operator, but the suggestion of choice expressed by the disjunctive conjunction or makes the “yes-no” answer impossible. The conjunction or links either two homogeneous parts of the sentence or two coordinate clauses. The part of the question before the conjunction is characterized by a rising tone, the part after the conjunction has a falling tone. Imperative sentences express commands which convey the desire of the speaker to make someone, generally the listener, perform an action. Besides commands proper, imperative sentences may express prohibition, a request, an invitation, a warning, persuasion, etc., depending on the situation, context, wording, or intonation. A sentence that expresses strong feelings by making an exclamation.

90.The problems of negative sentence.

Both structural and communicative types of sentences fall into affirmative sentences and negative sentences. A sentence is made negative by the particle not which is the most widely used negator. It is put immediately after the auxiliary or modal verb. The negator not has two forms: uncontracted and contracted. The former occurs mainly in formal English; the latter is usual in informal (conversational) English. There are two possible forms of negation contraction: one is when the operator is contracted and the negator uncontracted, and the other is when the negator is contracted but the operator is used in its full form.

Note that the contracted negative forms of can and will are can’t and won’t and the uncontracted negative of can is cannot. The corresponding forms of shall are shall not and shan’t.

Only the full negative form is possible for the first person singular of the verb to be in declarative sentences, I'т not late, the form ain’t being used only in dialects and uneducated forms of English. However, the verb contraction I'т is possible.

91.Point out the basic features of object.

The object is a secondary part of the sentence referring to some other part of the sentence and expressed by a verb, an adjective, a stative or, very seldom, an adverb completing, specifying, or restricting its meaning.

She has bought a car.

The object can be expressed by: . A noun in the common case or a nominal phrase, a substantivized adjective or participle.I saw the boys two hours ago.

. A numeral or a phrase with a numeral.At last he found three of them high up in the hills.

4. A gerund or a gerundial phrase.He insists on coming.

5. An infinitive or an infinitive phrase.She was glad to be walking with him.

6. Various predicative complexes. She felt the child trembling all over.

7. A clause (then called an object clause) which makes the whole sentence a complex one.:I don’t know what it was. The direct object is a non-prepositional one that follows transitive verbs, adjectives, or statives and completes their meaning. Semantically it is usually a non-person which is affected by the action of the verb, though it may also be a person or a situation. The situation is expressed by a verbal, a verbal phrase, a complex, or by a clause.

The indirect object also follows verbs, adjectives and statives. Unlike the direct object, however, it may be attached to intransitive verbs as well as to transitive ones. Besides, it may also be attached to adverbs, although this is very rare.

From the point of view of their semantics and certain grammatical characteristics indirect objects fall into two types:

a) The indirect object of the first type is attached only to ditransitive verbs. It is expressed by a noun or pronoun which as a rule denotes (or, in the case of pronouns, points out) a person who is the addressee or recipient of the action of the verb. So it is convenient to call an object of this type the indirect recipient object. It is joined to the headword either without a preposition or by the preposition to (occasionally for). The indirect recipient object is generally used with transitive verbs. The cognate object is a non-prepositional object which is attached to otherwise intransitive verbs and is always expressed by nouns derived from, or semantically related to, the root of the governing verb.

The retained object. This term is to be applied in case an active construction is transformed into a passive one and the indirect object of the active construction becomes the subject of the passive construction. The second object, the direct one, may be retained in the transformation, though the action of the predicate-verb is no more directed upon it. Therefore it is called a retained object.

92.Agreement and gorerment as two main types of syntactic relations.

By agreement we mean a method of expressing a syntactical relationship, which consists in making the subordinate word take a form similar to that of the word to which it is subordinate. In Modern English this can refer only to the category of number: a subordinate word agrees in number with its head word if it has different, number forms at all.¹ This is practically found in two words only, the pronouns this and that, which agree in number with their head word. Since no other word, to whatever part of speech it may belong, agrees in number with its head word, these two pronouns stand quite apart in the Modern English syntactical system.

As to the problem of agreement of the verb with the noun or pronoun denoting the subject of the action (a child plays, children play), this is a controversial problem. Usually it is treated as agreement of the predicate with the subject, that is, as a phenomenon of sentence structure. However, if we assume (as we have done) that agreement and government belong to the phrase level, rather than to the sentence level, and that phrases of the pattern "noun + + verb" do exist, we have to treat this problem in this chapter devoted to phrases.

By government we understand the use of a certain form of the subordinate word required by its head word, but not coinciding with the form of the head word itself — that is the difference between agreement and government.

The role of government in Modern English is almost as insignificant as that of agreement. We do not find in English any verbs, or nouns, or adjectives, requiring the subordinate noun to be in one case rather than in another. Nor do we find prepositions requiring anything of the kind.

The only thing that may be termed government in Modern English is the use of the objective case of personal pronouns and of the pronoun who when they are subordinate to a verb or follow a preposition. Thus, for instance, the forms me, him, her, us, them, are required if the pronoun follows a verb (e. g. find or invite) or any preposition whatever. Even this type of government is, however, made somewhat doubtful by the rising tendency, mentioned above (p. 66 ff.), to use the forms me, him, etc., outside their original sphere as forms of the objective case. The notion of government has also become doubtful as applied to the form whom, which is rather often superseded by the form who in such sentences as, Who(m) did yon see? (compare p. 69).

As to nouns, the notion of government may be said to have become quite uncertain in present-day English. Even if we stick to the view that father and father's are forms of the common and the genitive case, respectively, we could not assert that a preposition always requires the form of the common case. For instance, the preposition at can be combined with both case forms: compare I looked at my father and I spent the summer at my father's, or, with the preposition to: I wrote to the chemist, and I went to the chemist's, etc. It seems to follow that the notion of government does not apply to forms of nouns.

93. Contrast three types of aspect of sentence in English language semantic, pragmatic, and structural.

The semantic aspect (meaning)-the classification according to the semantic.(Actual division of sentence)Semantic aspect divides into: rheme, transition, theme. The notion of the actual division –has been put forward in theoretical linguistics. The purpose of the actual division of the sentence, called also “functional sentence perspective”, vs to reveal the correlative significance of the sentence parts from the point of view of their actual informative role in an utterance. the term was introduced by G.Mathesius. the main components of the actual division of the sentence are “the theme”and “the rheme”

The theme expresses the starting point of the communication, i.e. denotes an object or a phenomenon about which something is reported. Theme has minimum semantic contextual weight , it has either only old information or minimum new information.

The rheme expresses the basic informative part of the communication , its contextually relevant center. Rheme has maximum semantic – contextual weight and maximum new information.

The transition-is positioned between the theme and the rheme.. the theme may or may not coincide with the subject of the sentence , and the rheme with the predicate. Theme-subject,rheme-predicate: walter(T)shook his head Theme –predicate , rheme-subject:at their feet, with mighty, formidable sluggishness, silent, mysterious and fatal , flowed the river.the pragmatic aspect (function)-the classification according to the purpose of the utterance. The structural aspect- the classification according to the structure.

94. Main notions of Syntax.

95. Notional parts of speech, its peculiarities

96.Secondary members of the sentence.

The theory of the secondary parts is one of the last developed sections of linguistics. The usual classification of these parts into objects, attributes, and adverbial modifiers is familiar to everyone, no matter what his mother tongue may be and what foreign language he may study. Yet it has many weak points. The characteristic features of each of the three types are not clearly defined, and describing a given word or phrase as an object or an attribute in some cases, or again describing it as an object or an adverbial modifier, in others, often proves to be a matter of personal opinion or predilection.

100. Simple sentence, two member sentence. A two-member sentence may be either complete or incomplete (elliptical). An elliptical sentence is a sentence in which one or more word-forms in the principal positions are omitted. Ellipsis here refers only to the structural elements of the sentence, not the informational ones. This means that those words can be omitted, because they have only grammatical, structural relevance, and do not carry any new relevant information.

In English elliptical sentences are only those having no word-forms in the subject and predicate positions, i. e., in the positions which constitute the structural core of the sentence.

There are several types of elliptical sentences.

1. Sentences without a word-form in the subject position.

Looks like rain.

2. Sentences without word-forms in the subject position and part of the predicate position. In such cases the omitted part of the predicate may be either a) an auxiliary verb or b) a link verb.

a) Going home soon?

b) Not bad.

Free this evening?

3. Sentences without a word-form only in part of the predicate position, which may be an auxiliary or a link verb.

You seen them?

4. Sentences without word-forms both in the subject and the predicate position. Such ellipses occur in various responses.

What time does Dave come for lunch? - One o’clock. What were you thinking about? - You.

5. Sentences without a word-form in the predicate position. Such ellipses occur only in replies to questions.Who lives there? - Jack.