Practice.

Date: 2015-10-07; view: 548.

Theoretical Comment.

The Phrase. Subordinate Verb-phrases. Predicative Phrases.

SEMINAR 2

Grammatical organization of verbal phrases. Object-predicate relations; cognate object. Grammatical organization of adjectival phrases. The use of nexus-phrases in Modern English.

1. Analyse the verb phrases and the character of inner syntactic relations:

to stay in Helsinki, to stay awake; to leave early, to leave after it started to snow, to leave out of spite, to leave to milk the cow; to walk a great deal, to walk a mile; to wait a minute, to wait a table; to sound a trumpet, to sound a fool, to sound as if in agony; forgot to greet them, ran to wave goodbye, came in to find the room empty.

2. Give comments on the use of the verb-phrases with the cognate object:

1. “Let me go!” And sobbing great, dry, shaking sobs… (A. Sillitoe). 2. George Willard was thinking thoughts of Kate Swift (S. Anderson). 3. He had said his say to Smallwood, he had struck his blow at Bailey (A. Maltz). 4. David Copperfield… slept his Sunday night's sleep (Ch. Dickens). 5. All smiled their smiles (J. Joyce). 6. Mr. Browdie grinned a grin of special width… (Ch. Dickens). 7. Cowperwood smiled his most ingenuous smile (Th. Dreiser).

3. Give comments on the adverbial use of nouns in the following patterns (point out the adverbial relations of comparison, time and different degree of quality):

a shade darker, a bit louder, sky blue, age long, snow white, ankle deep, stone deaf, lots better, heaps better, a bit longer, iron hard, ash blond, paper white

bone thin, .

4. Give comments on the structure of adjectival phrases in the following sentences:

1. She was proud of her father having been a staff-officer (S. Maugham). 2. I'll be happy to wait (G. Elliot). 3. She was busy writing out sums upon the blackboard (A. Cronin). 4. Speech was always easy with her (J. London). 5. It begins with an incredibly beautiful line… (K. Mansfield). 6. Mrs. Septimus was the tallest of the four sisters (J. Galsworthy). 7. Certain nooks were curiously rich with wild flowers… (D. Aldington).