Теоретическая грамматика ММУ

Практическая работа Вариант 1

1. Comment on the actual division of the following sentences and the language means used: 1) There was a studio couch and on the studio couch lay a man (Chandler). 2) There are several dialects in England. 3) Only then he realized the truth. 4) Chopra has the look of a guru who has arrived. And arrived he has (Time). 5) Appeal and fear were in his glance. 6) It was at that moment that I realized the truth. 7) "Albert, there's Mrs. Forrester to see you." (Maugham) 8) "Both in prose and verse you are absolutely first class." (Maugham)

2. Define the communicative sentence type and speech-act characteristics of the given sentences, dwell on the actual division patterns used in them: 1. "You'd better put on your coat, Albert." (Maugham) 2. "What on earth do you mean by that?" (Maugham) 3. Why don't you write a good thrilling detective story? (Maugham) 4. "But you must play fair with your reader, my dear." (Maugham)

3. Образуйте формы множественного числа следующих существительных; объедините их в следующие группы: 1) регулярные продуктивные формы множественного числа; 1 2) супплетивные формы; 3) формы с архаичными суффиксами; 4) формы с заимствованными суффиксами; 5) формы множественного числа, омонимичные формам единственного числа.

4. Объедините в группы: 1) исчисляемые существительные; 2) существительные singularia tantum; 3) существительные pluralia tantum army, cavalry, crowd, courage, peace, tongs, advice, peasantry, evidence, family, money, hair, wages, acoustics.

5. Define the type of the morphemic distribution according to which the given words are grouped. MODEL: insensible - incapable The morphs "-ible" and "-able" are in complementary distribution, as they have the same meaning but are different in their form which is explained by their different environments. a) impeccable, indelicate, illiterate, irrelevant; b) undisputable, indisputable; c) published, rimmed; 2 d) seams, seamless, seamy.

6. Group the words according to a particular type of morphemic distribution. MODEL: worked - bells - tells -fells - telling - spells - spelled - spelt -felled - bell. spells - spelled: the allomorphs "-s" and "-ed" are in contrastive distribution

7. Define the types of the clauses making up the following sentences:

8. Define the type of the subject and the predicate of the following sentences: 1. The door was opened by a scraggy girl of fifteen with long legs and a tousled head (Maugham). 2. "We've been married for 35 years, my dear. It's too long." (Maugham) 3. I should merely have sent for the doctor (Maugham). 4. Mrs. Albert Forrester began to be discouraged (Maugham).

9. Define the types of syntactical relations between the constituents of the following word combinations: 1. saw him, 2. these pearls, 3. insanely jealous.

10. Paraphrase the following circumlocutions using word combinations of the pattern Adj + N: 1. insects with four wings, 2. youths with long hair, 3. a substance that sticks easily, 4. a colour that is slightly red, 5. manners typical of apes,

11. Point out participle I, gerund and verbal noun in the following sentences: 1. In the soul of the minister a struggle awoke. From wanting to reach the ears of Kate Swift, and through his sermons to delve into her soul, he began to want also to look again at the figure lying white and quiet in the bed (Anderson). 2. That was where our fishing began (Hemingway).

12. Account for the use of the Complex Subject and Complex Object constructions: 1. He heard a woman say in French that it would not astonish her if that commenced to let fall the bombs (Fitzgerald). 5 2. Over her shoulder, Michael saw a man come toward them to cut in (Fitzgerald).

13. Open the brackets using the forms of degrees of comparison: 1. It is much (pleasant) to go bathing in bright weather than on a rainy day. 2. I'm sure he is the (true) friend I have. 3. He felt even (unhappy) after what he had heard. 4. It is (true) to say that Australian English is (little) influenced by American than British English. 5. It was the (glad) day of her life.

14. Intensify the expressiveness of the utterances: 1. You have been kind to me, I appreciate this. 2. His position in the firm is better now than before.

15. Define the language means used to mark the gender distinctions of the nouns: 1. The tom-cat was sleeping on the window-sill. 2. Australia and her people invoke everyone's interest. 6 3. Next week we are going to speak about the continent of Australia: its climate and nature. 4. The tale says that the Mouse was courageous, he never let down his friends when they were in danger. 5. Something is wrong with my car I can't start her.

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