- •Contents
- •Inflexions
- •1. Grammar as a science
- •2. Language and speech
- •1. Complete the sentences
- •Parts of speech
- •Parts of speech. The problem of classification
- •1. Complete the following sentences
- •3. Complete the chart on approaches to the problem of classification with their distinctive features
- •4. Read an extract; complete the given chart using the words out of the story.
- •1. The Verb. General notion
- •2. Classification of Verbs
- •2. Complete the chart on English stems with examples
- •1. Complete the sentences
- •2. Give a distinctive characteristic of the Verb as a Part of Speech from the following points of view
- •3. Complete the chart with your own examples
- •4. Complete the chart with your own examples
- •5. Complete the chart with your own examples
- •The Noun. General characteristic
- •Classification Of Nouns
- •Countables and uncountables
- •According to lexical meaning: common and proper
- •Possessive
- •To be treated as
- •Masculine
- •Feminine
- •2. Give a distinctive characteristic of the Noun as a Part of Speech from the following points of view:
- •Interchangeable
- •The Pronoun. General notion
- •Classification of Pronouns
- •Personal Pronouns
- •Indicate
- •I) Negative pronouns
- •1. Complete the sentences
- •2. Give a distinctive characteristic of the Pronoun as a Part of Speech from the following points of view:
- •3. Complete the chart with the examples
- •1. The Adjective. General notion
- •2. Classification of Adjectives
- •3. Degrees of Comparison
- •5. Substantivized Adjectives
- •6. The Adverb. General notion
- •7. Classification of Adverbs
- •8. Degrees Of Comparison
- •1. Complete the sentences
- •2. Give a distinctive characteristic of the Adjective and the Adverb as a Part of Speech from the following points of view
- •3. Complete the chart with 7 examples each section
- •3. Adjective or adverb? Circle the correct word.
- •1. The Numeral. General notion
- •2. Classification of the Numerals
- •1) According to form:
- •2) According to content:
- •3. The Article. General notions
- •2. Special Cases
- •1. No article:
- •2. The indefinite article
- •3. The definite article
- •1. Complete the sentences
- •2. Give a distinctive characteristic of the Noun as a Part of Speech from the following points of view
- •3. Complete the chart on the Numerals with examples
- •4. Countable or uncountable. Put in a, an or nothing (–).
- •1. The Interjection
- •1. Coordinating Conjunction
- •2. Subordinating Conjunction
- •3. Correlative Conjunction
- •3. The Preposition
- •1. Complete the sentences
- •2. Conjunctions. Choose the best conjunction to join the sentences.
- •4. Tenses with time conjunctions. Circle the correct form.
- •5. Put in for, from, to, at, in, off, on, through or under.
- •Investigate
- •1. Sentence as a unit of syntax
- •Interrogative (general, special, alternative, disjunctive)
- •Imperative
- •2. Parts of the Sentence
- •3. Word-groups
- •1. Complete the sentences
- •2. Write out of your home reading texts the examples of the different types of sentences
- •3. Read and extract, define the parts of speech in the sentences. Define the part of speech of the given words.
- •4. Read an extract; define the ways of connection among the words in the word-groups.
- •1. Composite sentences. General notion
- •2. Compound sentences
- •3. Intermediate types of composite sentences
- •Sentences with correlative clauses
- •Sentences with consecutive clauses
- •4. Complex sentences
- •1. Complete the sentences
- •2. Write out from your home reading texts composite sentences of different types.
- •3. Define the type of the following sentences and divide them into clauses (if possible):
- •A list of terms
1. Complete the sentences
The adjective is a part of speech ….
The main syntactical functions of the Adjective are …
The Adjective is modified by …
Qualitative adjectives denote …
Relative adjectives denote …
3 degrees of comparison: …
Ways of forming degrees of comparison are …
Constructions with compounds are …
The substantivization of adjectives means that …
Fully substantivized adjectives are …
Partially substantivised are …
The adverb is a part of speech …
The syntactical function of the adverb is of …
Adverbs can modify ...
Some adverbs have …
All the adverbs fall under several groups: …
Sustantivized adverbs are …
2. Give a distinctive characteristic of the Adjective and the Adverb as a Part of Speech from the following points of view
Meaning Semantical criteria |
Form Morphological criteria |
Function Syntactical criteria |
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3. Complete the chart with 7 examples each section
Adjectives denoting substances |
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Size |
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Color |
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Age |
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Material |
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Psychological state |
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Substantivized adjectives |
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Fully substantivized |
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classes |
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nationalities |
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words denoting periodicals |
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Partially substantivised |
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condition or state |
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nationalities ending in –sh, -ch |
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abstract notions |
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things |
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Types of adverbs |
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adverbs of time |
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adverbs of place |
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adverbs of direction |
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adverbs of manner |
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adverbs of frequency |
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adverbs of degree |
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3. Adjective or adverb? Circle the correct word.
1. Don’t eat your food so …! (quick / quickly) 2. I play football … but I do enjoy it. (bad / badly) 3. She doesn’t seem very … , but I don’t know why. (happy / happily) 4. Please say that again more … (slow / slowly) 5. He made a very … suggestion. (clever / cleverly) 6. He speaks almost … Chinese. (perfect / perfectly)
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Frequency
HE NUMERAL. THE ARTICLE