Part 2. PRACTICE SECTION

Exercise 1. Answer the following questions:

1. What is the main communicative unit of human language?

2. What is the difference between clauses and sentences?

3. What is the difference between finite and non-finite predication?

4. In what ways clauses may be linked together?

5. What are the principles of simple sentences classification?

6. What types of simple sentences do you know?

Exercise 2. Define the kinds of the following simple sentences:

1. Another day of rain.

2. How very dark it is!

3. Is he wise?

4. And then the silence and the beauty of the place.

5. (1)" How did she look?" (2)"Pretty".

6. She was glad, wasn't she?

7. He was trying to keep from laughing.

8. We don't have to worry.

9. His heart felt swollen.

10. (1)"According to Jerry Hall you're going abroad". (2)"Eventually", I said.

(3)"What does that mean?" (4)"Soon. (5) In a week or so",

11. (1 )"Where have you been?" (2)"Calling on the British".

12. You sound serious.

Exercise 3. Answer the following questions:

1. At what structural levels of syntactic system can the principal and secondary parts of a sentence be expressed?

2. What is the difference between the simple verbal and the compound nominal predicate?

3. What is the difference between the compound verbal modal and the compound verbal aspect predicates?

4. What is the difference between the direct and the indirect objects?

5. What parts of a sentence can be expressed by the predicative constructions?

6. What parts of a sentence can be expressed by clauses?

Exercise 4. Point out the subject and state what it is expressed by.

1. It was a wild land, an ageless land, harsh and beautiful.

2. Now the rich and celebrated came to play here.

3. It was the harsh world of reality.

4. It is awfully hard work doing nothing.

5. Convincing him of that will be difficult.

6. This star is believed to be nearing the end of its life.

7. It has been raining steadily for a fortnight.

8. It's time for you to get a job.

9. Voices were heard calling for help.

10. There was no sign of the two men.

11. It is important to have a general agreement on minerals research.

12. The veteran navy helicopter pilot was standing next to the helicopter.

Exercise 5. State the types of the predicates in the following sentences.

1. The sun was starting to go down and it was very pleasant.

2. They both became absorbed in routine.

3. She flashed a look from Ben to Verity.

4. The division were to attack at a place up the river.

5. A new road was being finished that would go over the mountain.

6. The dirty windows were all shut.

7. She gave a snort of disbelief.

8. The system was to bring everything up the road.

9. She had been silent through most of the tour.

10.I began to be more puzzled than before.

11. Her face went cool.

12.I may be a big star in the public's eye, but I'm on shaky grounds in Hollywood.

13. It must be remembered that I was very young.

14. The lieutenant lay asleep on the other bed.

15. That sounds fine.

16. She was immersed in thought.

17. This time, this trip was going to be different.

18. She shot a glance at her passenger.

19. A man has to accept age as it comes.

20. She continued to scrutinise autumn images on the screen.

Date: 2015-12-24; view: 712