Методические рекомендации к семинарам по теоретической грамматике английского языка. Тивьяева И.В. - 16 стр.

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4. Oppositional reduction of verbal categories. Neutralization and transposition

of verbal forms.

Questions for discussion

1. What makes the expression of voice distinctions in English specific?

2. How many voices are there in English?

3. Comment on the connection between the problem of voice and

transitivity/intransitivity of verbs.

4. What complicates the analysis of English mood forms?

5. What does the category of mood express?

6. What is the status of the imperative mood in English?

Practice Assignment

I. State the kind of passive constructions used in the following sentences (direct

primary passive, indirect secondary passive, prepositional tertiary passive):

1. I had been invalided home from the Front; and, after spending some months

in a rather depressing Convalescent Home, was given a month's sick leave.

(A. Christie)

2. Winston hardly knew Tillotson, and had no idea what work he was

employed on. (G. Orwell)

3. He felt that sooner or later this principle would have been promulgated by

someone in the room. (J. Steinbeck)

4. The threshing machines were oiled and cleaned. (J. Steinbeck)

5. On occasion he had even been entrusted with the rectification of ‘The

Times’ leading articles, which were written entirely in Newspeak. (G.

Orwell)

II. Analyze the forms of the oblique mood in the following sentences:

1. “Do you suggest we keep quiet about such things?” (A. Hailey)

2. If he had known what it had cost me to acquire my art, he would also have

known that it would break any collector to buy it. (M. Twain)

3. “I wish there were some other way to tell you this,” Pearson said, “but I’m

afraid there isn’t.” (A. Hailey)