- •Seminar 7
- •Verbal categories
- •1. Get ready to answer the questions below.
- •2. Find Russian equivalents for the following terms; give definitions.
- •3. А) Define the person and number of the verbs in the sentences below, explain their usage.
- •Seminar 8 adjective and adverb
- •4. Define if the verbs shall (should) and will (would) are used 1) as modal verbs, 2) as auxiliaries rendering the future, and 3) cases when their modal or future meanings are implicit
- •5. Comment on the meanings of the tense verbal forms. Name the cases with oppositional reduction
- •6. А) Define the type of ‘medial’ voice types of the verbs in the sentences below, use transformations to prove your words.
- •8. Define the verbal mood in the sentences below.
- •Кобрина, н.А. Теоретическая грамматика современного английского языка: учебное пособие / н.А. Кобрина, н.Н. Болдырев, а.А. Худяков. – м.: Высшая школа, 2007. – с. 121-131, 153-164. Tasks
- •1. Get ready to answer the questions below.
- •2. Find Russian equivalents for the following terms; give definitions.
- •3. Determine if the degrees of comparison of the adjectives in the sentences below render absolute or elative superiority.
- •4. Translate the category of state words below into Russian and give their synonyms (they can be not very close ones). Illustrate their semantic similarity in word combinations.
- •6. А) Are the words below adjectives, adverbs or both (I.E. Fluctuant conversives)? Illustrate your opinion with contexts.
- •7. А) Split the adverbs below into qualitative, quantitative and circumstantial.
6. А) Are the words below adjectives, adverbs or both (I.E. Fluctuant conversives)? Illustrate your opinion with contexts.
For example: kindly - a kindly smile (adj); to smile kindly (adv)
daily, lively, timely, worldly, womanly, quickly
b) The words below are homonymous adjectives and adverbs. Give contexts to illustrate their status.
For example : loud - a loud noise (adj); to speak loud (adv) (but: to dress loudly)
long, high, late, hard, fast, close, tight
c) Are the words with ‘-ly’ below homonymous adverbs and modal words? Illustrate your opinion with contexts.
For example: decisively - to act decisively (adv); He is, decisively, the first of American poets (modal word)
naturally, frankly, certainly, probably, fortunately
7. А) Split the adverbs below into qualitative, quantitative and circumstantial.
where, abroad, too, tenfold, nowadays, inside, quickly, underneath, once, homeward, seldom, nowhere, heartily, afoot, headlong, twice, beyond, then, eastward, otherwise, upstairs, rarely, late, outside, ahead, forever, so, beneath, forward, fast, scarcely, inquiringly, sometimes, good-naturedly, near
b) Split the qualitative and circumstantial adverbs from the task above into notional (nominal) adverbs of full semantic value and semi-functional (pronominal) adverbs of partial semantic value. Illustrate their status.