(ММУ) Практические задания по дисциплине Теоретическая грамматика

Практическая работа

Вариант 2

1. Comment on the actual division of the following sentences and the language means used:

1)   On the wizened face of Oscar Charles was a whimsical look (Maugham).

2) She must leave no stones unturned (Maugham).

3) It was latish in the afternoon next day when Albert Forrester... set out from her flat in order to get a bus from the Marble Arch... (Maugham).

4) "I've always taken care to make you share in all my interests." (Maugham)

5) "Well, my dear, what have you to say to me?" (Maugham)

6) And a very nice cosy place it is (Maugham).

7) "Often at your parties I've had an almost irresistible impulse to take off all my clothes just to see what would happen." (Maugham)

8) "What I say is, Albert's worked long enough." (Maugham)

2. Define the communicative sentence type and speech-act characteristics of the given sentences, dwell on the actual division patterns used in them:

1) "But you must play fair with your reader, my dear." (Maugham)

2) "I will submit to your decision. But you think over the detective story." (Maugham) 6. "I suppose /was asked?" he barked. "Well, in point of fact you weren't." (Maugham)

3) "Were you bored, dear?" "Stiff." (Maugham)

3. Образуйте формы множественного числа следующих существительных; объедините их в следующие группы:

1) регулярные продуктивные формы множественного числа;

2) супплетивные формы;

3) формы с архаичными суффиксами;

4) формы с заимствованными суффиксами;

5) формы множественного числа, омонимичные формам единственного числа. Некоторые существительные могут иметь две формы множественного числа; объясните разницу в значениях подобных «грамматических дублетов»:

foot, crisis, child, horse, stimulus, deer, louse, formula, man, pupil, ox, brother, cloth, terminus, trout, cow, swine, datum, goose, virtuoso, sheep, cactus, antenna, leaf

4. Объедините в группы:

1) исчисляемые существительные;

2) существительные singularia tantum;

3) существительные pluralia tantum

army, cavalry, crowd, courage, peace, tongs, advice, peasantry, evidence, family, money, hair, wages, acoustics.

5. Define the type of the morphemic distribution according to which the given words are grouped.

MODEL: insensible - incapable The morphs "-ible" and "-able" are in complementary distribution, as they have the same meaning but are different in their form which is explained by their different environments.

a) impeccable, indelicate, illiterate, irrelevant;

b) undisputable, indisputable;

c) published, rimmed;

d) seams, seamless, seamy.

6. Group the words according to a particular type of morphemic distribution.

MODEL: worked - bells - tells -fells - telling - spells - spelled - spelt -felled - bell. spells - spelled: the allomorphs "-s" and "-ed" are in contrastive distribution (= fells - felled); bell - bells: the allomorph "-s" and the zero allomorph are in contrastive distribution; spelt - spelled: the allomorphs "-t" and "-ed" are in non-contrastive distribution; worked - spelled: the allomorphs "-ed" [t] and "-ed" [d] are in complementary distribution, etc.

1) mice, leapt, appendices, kittens, cats, witches, leaping, children, leaped, leaps, formulae, stimuli, matrices, sanatoria;

2) geese, dogs, chickens, deer, mats, bade, bid, phenomena, formulae, formulas, genii, geniuses, scissors;

3) genera, brethren, brothers, trout, gestures, blessed, blest, tins, pots, matches, antennae, antennas;

4) anthems, classes, lice, handkerchiefs, handkerchieves, bereft, bereaved, grouse, cleaved, cleft, clove.

7. Define the types of the clauses making up the following sentences:

1) In fact, it is he who had bought her the luxurious little villa in which we were now sitting (Maugham).

2) When he gained the crest of the Magazine Hill he halted and looked along the river towards Dublin, the lights of which burned redly and hospitably in the cold night (Joyce).

3) He remembered her outburst of that night and interpreted it in a harsher sense than he had ever done (Joyce).

4) It was a long white stocking, but there was a little weight in the toe (Lawrence).

5) Whiston had made the fire burn, so he came to look for her (Lawrence).

She slowly, abstractedly, as if she did not know anyone was there, closed the door in his face, continuing to look at the addresses on her letters (Lawrence).

и т.д.