Контрольна робота з теоретичної граматики англійської мови (методичні рекомендації до виконання)

Тема даної контрольної роботи – „Морфологія”. Для виконання роботи необхідно вивчити матеріал по наступним розділам програми: „Предмет теоретичної граматики”, „Системна теорія мови у вивченні граматичного строю”, „Морфемна структура слова”, „Граматичне значення та граматична категорія слова”, „Теорія частин мови”, „Граматичні властивості іменника”, „Граматичні властивості дієслова”, а також вміти застосовувати отримані теоретичні знання при аналізі конкретного мовного матеріалу.

Контрольна робота пропонується у трьох варіантах, один з яких рекомендується до виконання.

Контрольна робота призначається для написання студентами, що займаються за індивідуальним планом.

Test paper in Theoretical English Grammar Variant 1

Exercise 1. Characterize linguistic units according to the following plan. Give examples of your own to illustrate the fol­lowing points

a) linguistic units as the elements of the language structure of the phonological, morphological and syntactic levels;

b) linguistic units (morphemes and words) as two-fold elements, having their content and expression sides;

c) linguistic units in their systemic relations. Types and kinds of paradigmatic and syntagmatic relations.

Exarcise 2. Define and characterize different types of the word-stems. Write out from your home-reading book examples to illust­rate different types of word-stems: simple, derived, compound, com­pound-derived, composite

( 3 examples of each).

Exercise 3. Define the following grammatical oppositions: iden­tify the grammatical category, which is realized through the opposi­tion; state the opposites and the meanings they renderj indicate the markers of the marked members.

Model; work → worked - this is a tense opposition: past → non-past; the Past tense form is the marked member, it is marked by the -ed marker.

Man's → men's; men → men's; go → went; take → took; show → will show; we → us; good → better; long → longer; will translate → will be translating; had dictated → has been dictating; has passed → had passed

Exercise 4. Decide to what part of speech the words underlined may be assigned. Pose arguments,

1. They just came in. They are sitting in number 7 booth (Drei­ser).

2. I'll just tap and ask them to come out (Dreiser).

3. I don't know just what to do (Dreiser).

4. I was born there but have never been there since I was a baby (Trollope).

5. Well! You have never been here since (Dreiser).

6. They have moved to that house two years before (Maugham).

7. His tone was different from that of his friends (Shaw).

8. He ate all that was placed before him (Dickens).

9. I saw that it was two o'clock (Du Maurier).

10. I have just returned from my round of medical visits (Collin),

11. At that moment the woman at the fire turned round (Mansfield).

12. Look round this room (Dickens).

Exercise 5. Collect from your home-reading book 10 sentences with the continuous forms of different verbs (terminative, non-terminative). Comment on the meanings they render.

Test paper in Theoretical English Grammar