V. Find all the pronouns. Define their types.

Практическое занятие № 1-2

Существительное. Местоимение. Прилагательное.

План занятия:

1. Имя существительное как часть речи, его грамматическое значение.

2. Словообразование существительных.

3. Категория числа.

4. Проблема категории падежа.

5. Проблема категории рода.

6. Категория определенности-неопределенности.

7. Местоимение как часть речи. Типологическая классификация местоимений.

8. Имя прилагательное как часть речи. Статив как часть речи. Их грамматические значения.

9. Состав грамматических категорий прилагательного.

10. Разряды прилагательных.

11. Словообразование прилагательных.

Практические задания

I. Dwell on the numerical features of the nouns:

1. The board of advisers have been discussing the agenda of the next meeting for an hour already.

2. Sonata is not played by an orchestra.

3. It was a tragedy that he died before he could enjoy the fruits of all his hard work.

4. The measles is infectious.

5. Sea-wasp is poisonous.

6. He bought another pair of scales.

7. The tropics are not pleasant to live in.

8. They produced a number of steels.

9. The machinery was due to arrive in March,

10. She dropped tear after tear but he didn't raise his head.

11. This was more like home. Yet the strangenesses were unaccountable.

II. 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.

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.

6. I saw a car left on the beach; its windows were broken.

7. They have got five cows and a bull, two cocks and three dozen hens, a drake and ten ducks.

8. His new yacht is very expensive; he paid about a million dollars for her.

9. A woman-doctor was to operate on the patient. 10. A he-goat is more difficult to tame than a she-goat.

III. Arrange the phrases into two columns according to the type of their casal semantics (on the principle of differentiating between possession and qualification) and use the proper articles with them:

officers cap, young man's thesis, tomorrow's important press-conference, mile's distance, Wilde's last epigram, yesterday's unexpected storm, hour's walk, last poem of Shelley, new children's shop, two weeks' journey, day's work, in ... two months' period, nice children's caps, new women's magazine, boys who played yesterday in the yard's toys, three hours' walk.

IV. Account for the use of the articles:

1. The dog was tamed by man a long time ago.

2. He felt pity as he knew that living with him didn't give her pleasure. It would have been a surprise to hear that she felt attached to him.

3. A group of boys were playing volleyball.

4. The woman who teaches us Italian now is not a teacher.

5. The theatre showed us a new Oscar Wilde, not the great Wilde, but a man in despair, full of doubts.

6. It was better to have a sulky Arthur than no Arthur at all.

7. She was no woman, she was servant.

8. Hollowquay was a has-been if there ever was. Developed first as a fishing village and then further developed as an English Riviera - and now a mere summer resort, crowded in August.

V. Find all the pronouns. Define their types.

In describing to her all the grandeur of Lady Catherine and her mansion, with occasional digressions in praise of his own humble abode, and the improvements it was receiving, he was happily employed until the gentlemen joined them; and he found in Mrs. Phillips a very attentive listener, whose opinion of his consequence increased with what she heard, and who was resolving to retail it all among her neighbours as soon as she could. To the girls, who could not listen to their cousin, and who had nothing to do but to wish for an instrument, and examine their own indifferent imitations of china on the mantelpiece, the interval of waiting appeared very long. It was over at last, however. The gentlemen did approach, and when Mr. Wickham walked into the room, Elizabeth felt that she had neither been seeing him before, nor thinking of him since, with the smallest degree of unreasonable admiration. The officers of the ——shire were in general a very creditable, gentlemanlike set, and the best of them were of the present party; but Mr. Wickham was as far beyond them all in person, countenance, air, and walk, as they were superior to the broad-faced, stuffy uncle Phillips, breathing port wine, who followed them into the room (Pride and Prejudice by J. Austin).

VI. Point out all the adjectives and characterize them:

Eckels glanced across the vast office at a mass and tangle, a snaking and humming of wires and steel boxes, at an aurora that flickered now orange, now silver, and now blue. There was a sound like a gigantic bonfire burning all of Time, all the years and all the parchment calendars, all the hours piled high and set aflame. A touch of the hand and this burning would, on the instant, beautifully reverse itself. Eckels remembered the wording in the advertisements to the letter. Out of chars and ashes, out of dust and coals, like golden salamanders, the old years, the green years, might leap; roses sweeten the air, white hair turn Irish-black, wrinkles vanish; all, everything fly back to seed, flee death, rush down to their beginnings, suns rise in western skies and set in glorious easts, moons eat themselves opposite to the custom, all and everything cupping one in another like Chinese boxes, rabbits into hats, all and everything returning to the fresh death, the seed death, the green death, to the time before the beginning. A touch of a hand might do it, the merest touch of a hand.

«Unbelievable.» Eckels breathed, the light of the Machine on his thin face. «A real Time Machine.» He shook his head. «Makes you think, If the election had gone badly yesterday, I might be here now running away from the results. Thank God Keith won. He'll make a fine President of the United States.»

«Yes,» said the man behind the desk. «We're lucky. If Deutscher had gotten in, we'd have the worst kind of dictatorship. There's an anti everything man for you, a militarist, anti-Christ, anti-human, anti-intellectual. People called us up, you know, joking but not joking. Said if Deutscher became President they wanted to go live in 1942. Of course it's not our business to conduct Escapes, but to form Safaris. Anyway, Keith's President now. All you got to worry about is –»

«Shooting my dinosaur,» Eckels finished it for him.

«A Tyrannosaurus Rex. The Tyrant Lizard, the most incredible monster in history. Sign this release. Anything happens to you, we're not responsible. Those dinosaurs are hungry.»

Рекомендуемая литература

Обязательная литература

Блох М.Я. Теоретические основы грамматики. М.: Высшая школа, 2004.

Иванова И.П., Бурлакова В.В., Почепцов Г.Г. Теоретическая грамматика современного английского языка. М.: Высшая школа, 1981.

Ilyish B.A. The Structure of Modern English Language, Prosveshchenije, 1971.

Дополнительная литература

Гуревич В.В. Теоретическая грамматика английского языка. Сравнительная типология английского и русского языков: учебное пособие / В.В. Гуревич. Москва: Флинта: Наука, 2003.

Худяков А.А. Теоретическая грамматика английского языка: учебное пособие для вузов / А. А. Худяков. - 2-е изд., стереотип.3-е изд., стереотип. Москва: Академия, 2007, 2010.

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