3. Suggest names for the following genitives:

mile's trip, a friend of Tom, an hour's detention, the town's MP, the union's declaration, Britain's government, a week's holidays.

4. State the difference in meaning of the following word combinations:

a) the government departments; the government's departments;

b) London streets; London's streets

c) a one-day strike; a one-day's strike

d) the trade union declaration; the trade union's declaration.

Content Module II

Seminar 8 Grammatical Nature of English Verb Realization of Verbal Categories

Objectives:

• to assess students’ achievements in mastering the required theoretical material;

• to enable students to form judgments of their own on the questions of diverse grammatical intricacies.

Questions for discussion:

0. 1. General characteristics of a verb as a part of speech, its classification.

1. 2. Realization of verbal categories:

0. 2.1.Category of Tense. The problem of Perfect and Future tense form;

1. 2.2.Category of Aspect ( different views );

2. 2.3.Category of Voice;

3. 2.4.Category of Mood;

4. 2.5.Category of Person and Number.

0. 3. *General characteristics of non-finite forms of the verb (infinitive, participle, gerund).

0. 4. *Auxiliary and modal verbs in English.

Recommended literature:

1. M.Y. Blokh. A Course in Theoretical Grammar. - M.: Высшая школа -2003. – 423 p.

2. M.Y. Blokh., T.N.Semionova, S.V. Timofeyeva. Theoretical English Grammar. Seminars. - M.: Высшая школа -2003. – 471 p.

3. Alexeyeva Iryna. Theoretical Grammar Course of Modern English. – Vinnytsya: Nova Knyha. – 2007. – 328 p.

4. E.J.Morokhovskaya Fundamentals of Theoretical English Grammar. - K.: Вища школа. - 1984. – 246 p.

5. B. Ilyish The Structure of Modern English. – Л.: Просвещение. - 1971. – 214 р.

6. N.M.Rayevska Modern English Grammar. - K.: Вища школа. - 1976. p.6-8, 37-42.

7. Khaimovich B.S., Rogovskaya B.I. The Structure of Modern English. М.

1. 1967. p.6-10

8. Языкознание. Большой энциклопедический словарь / Гл.ред. В.Н.Ярцева. – 2-е изд. - М.: Большая Российская энциклопедия, 2000. – 688с: ил.

9. Traugott E.C., Pratt M.L. Linguistics. – Oxford University Press. – Oxford, 2002. - 58 p.

10. L.L. Iofik, L. P. Chakhoyan. Readings in the Theory of English Grammar.p.p. 43-67.

11. O.M.Starikova, N.P.Alova. Seminars in Theoretical Grammar. p.52-54.

* questions for self-study (look Individual Work № 3,4)

Seminar №8 Practical assignment

1. Comment on the following terms:

verb, verbal categories, finite verbs, non-finite verbs (verbids), standard verb, non- standard verb, subjective verb, objective verb, transitive verb, intransitive verb, complementive / uncomplementive verbs, terminative verb, non-terminative verb, notional verbs, form verbs, modal verbs, actional verbs, statal verbs, time, tense, simple tenses/ composite tenses, relative tenses, simultaneity, anteriority (priority), posteriority, voice category, mood category, modality, epistemic modality, root modality.

2. Characterize the verb as a part of speech accor­ding to the following plan: a) the verb semantics as the basis of general implicit lexico-grammatical meaning; b) the morphological properties of the verb; types of word-building and form-derivation; c) the syntactic role of the verb, its valency and combinability.

Give examples to illustrate your answers.

3. Identify the verb-forms in the following senten­ces. Comment on the cases of their usage in transposition (whether the verb-form has its categorial meaning (at the level of language) or the meaning is shifted (contextual mea­ning at the level of speech)).

1. And we meet at six o'clock tomorrow morning by the Pine Trees, and see how many Heffalumps we've got in our trap (Milne).

2. Dave is joining the International Brigade. He's leaving for Spain tomorrow morning (Weaker).

3. I miss her very much, almost every minute of the day think of her, or think that I'm hearing her (O'Brien).

4. If you want to know what I thought, it was that you were just being rather stupid (Priestley).

5. Where have you been? - I was seeing Granger home (Greene).

6. I was cut off from the kind of people I'd always known, my family, my friends, everybody (Osborne).

7. Well, you'll be wanting more definite information than that, won't you? (Amis).

8. It was all gone and he was forty-three and his wife had gone back to Linnean Street, Cambridge, Mass., and was leading the life she liked to lead (Hemingway).