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Practical assignments

 

Exercise 1. Comment on the following terms:

sentence, proposition, utterance, discourse, text, topic, comment, communicative types of utterances, distribution formula, distri­butional analysis, transformational analysis, constructional analysis, immediate constituents analysis.

 

Exercise 2. Give traditional syntactic analysis of the following sentences:

1. Margery gave him his black Homburg hat and opened the door for Julia and Michael to go out (Maugham). 2. It was all very well for Michael to be so damned good-natured about it. She was hurt. She felt a little inclined to cry (Maugham). 3. With a little shrug of her shoulders Julia slipped her hand to the door and drew back the bolt (Maugham). 4. From the table beside him he picked up a volume in a glossy blue dust-jacket and held it up for my inspection (Hux­ley). 5. I couldn't bear to think of your having to throw away your good money on tips (Maugham).

 

Exercise 3. Oppositional analysis. Give the opposites of the following sentences:

1. Denny lit a cigarette. 2. Andrew smiled. 3. John's was a hard life. 4. We saw many people there. 5. Come quickly I 6. The students were in the corridor. 7. To have come so late!

 

Exercise 4. Distributional analysis. Comment on the distributio­nal value of the verb to get. Identify its structural and lexical meaning in the following sentences:

1. I got to take care of myself (Lewis). 2. "And, uh, say, doctor, be sure and get Mr.Eathorne to come" (Lewis). 3. I got to thinking: Lilla's a fine, big-hearted woman, and she'll understand that Paul's had his lesson now (Lewis). 4. "If you're ready, darling", he said, "let's get going" (Lyon). 5. "Do not get too worried, take life like it cornea" (Maltz). 6. "I'll only get caught", Bironsky said dully (Maltz). 7. "I want to offer services in the trial. I've got an idea" (Lewie). 8. I must get him another shirt and a Jacket for the winter and some sort of shoes and another blanket (Hemingway). 9. At every street corner National Service posters proclaim that "We've got to be prepared", âî we are getting ready. The average man gets up in the railway station, where he gets his packer, and gets into a smoker. Before he gets to town the skygets black, and he gets wet (Jagger). 10. "You're getting to be quite a man, aren't you?" (Dreiser),

Exercise 5. IC analysis. Cut each, of the following sentences into its immediate constituents:

1. Julia continued to go to the smart supper places and to night club with Tom (Maugham), 2. He looked anxiously at the door (Maugham). 3. She managed in the most natural way in the world to see nothing of Tom till her last day in London (Maugham). 4. The village water supply was two streets down the road (Hemingway).

Exercise 6. Draw the derivation tree for the following sentence:

The young man heard a wonderful song there.

Exercise 7.Transform the following sentences according to the given models:



Model: I want somebody to do the job ——— I want the Job done.

1. I want somebody to clean my shoes. 2. I want you to repair my watch. 3. I want the barber to cut my hair.

Model: I heard the door opening— I heard that the door was opening.

1. I heard him laughing . 2. I saw her running across the street. 3. I felt her touching my arm.

Model: I believed him to be honest —I believed him honest.

1. I found the book to be interesting . 2. We considered her a be clever. 5, We found them to be practical.

Model: It's time for them to arrive — It's time they arrived.

1. It's high time for you to know grammar. 2. It's time for her to go home. 3. It's time for the presents to be delivered.

Exercise 8.Give transformational potential of the following sentences.

 

Model: Brian laughed to think of it.


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