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of it on the table cloth. 6. Every oilier minute he would push up his
sleeve and look at the watch. 7. He reads into the early hours of the
morning. This habit of his will have its say on his health one fine
day. 8. When lie saw me in tin's dress he burst into laughter. He
couldn't help it. 9. If such machines are applied in agriculture, they
will save farmers much time and labour. 10. They made the garden
shady; they had planted more trees in it.
Assignment 4
THE CATEGORY OF TENSE
The problems for discussion
1. The expression of grammatical time.
2. The main temporal opposition.
3. Different interpretations of the combinations of the verbs shall
and will with the infinitive.
4. The modal factors in the meaning of the English future tenses.
5. The category of the futurity option.
6. The construction conveying the idea of an immediate future
action.
7. The neutralisation of the category of the prospective time.
Recommended reading:
1. Blokh M.Y. A Course in Theoretical English Grammar. - M:
Vysshaya Shkola, 2000, Ch. XIV.
2. Ilyish B.A. The Structure of modern English. – L.: Prosveschenie,
1971, Ch IX.
3. Иванова Т.П., Бурлакова В.В., Почепцов Г.Г. Теоретическая
грамматика современного английского языка. – М: Высш.
Шк. , 1981, С. 51-57.
4. Иофик Л.Л., Чахоян Л.П., Поспелова А.Г. Хрестоматия по
теоретической грамматике английского языка. - Л.:
Просвещение, 1981, С. 68-74.
4. Иофик Л.Л., Чахоян Л.П., Поспелова А.Г. Хрестоматия по
теоретической грамматике английского языка.- Л.:
Просвещение, 1981, С. 74-76.
Additional task
1. Модель темпоральной референции Г.Райхенбаха.
Recommended reading:
Рaйхенбах Г. Философия пространства и времени. – М.:
Прогресс, 1985. – 344 с.
Practical tasks
G.O.Curme gives the following classes of aspect according to the
way they represent the action:
1. Durative (continuing), 2. Point-action a) ingressive (initial stage),
b) effective (final point), 3. Terminate (indicates an action as a
whole).
Record the following verbs in groups, their aspective character being
taken into account. Comment on the use of Continuous, Perfect and
Perfect Continuous forms.
to enjoy
to blame
to enter
to spring up
to go
to jump off
to admit
to pass
to argue
to open
to bring
to mean
to fall
to lie
to sit
to attack
to throw
to escape
to love
to talk
to laugh
to feel
to sleep
to exist
to work
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