Pick out structural subjects out of those underlined and comment on their type.

Date: 2015-10-07; view: 520.

The divisions into parts of speech and parts of the sentence are organically related. Provide some linguistic evidence to support the statement.

Give Ukrainian equivalents of the terms and elucidate their usage.

Practice.

Theoretical Comment.

The Simple Sentence: Constituent Structure

SEMINAR 4

Nominative division of the sentence. Syntactic bond and its types. The traditional classification of notional parts (members of the sentence): principal, secondary, detached. Definitions and classifications of sentence parts. Points of difference between English and Russian subjects, predicates, predicatives and objects. Parsing of the sentence into its “immediate constituents”.

THE SUBJECT

1) It was warm midsummer. 2) It is difficult to understand this. 3) It reminded him of his horrible past. 4) When it was over, the audience left. 5) There is not a single cloud in the sky.

1) There was still no trace of the heat wave that would be hitting us in a few weeks; it was simply a beautiful summer's eve, fragrant and soft (M. Gray).

4. Which of the subjects are indefinite?

1) They finished the meal in silence. 2) They say she is the most brilliant student in the group. 3) Here one can wander unseen. 4) One can endure all these misfortunes. 5) “It was the devil, Holmes!” he cried. 6) It certainly was a dreadfully gloomy before. 7) You were rude with him yesterday. 8) You never know what to expect from her.