Методические рекомендации к семинарам по теоретической грамматике английского языка для студентов III курса заочного отделения. Тивьяева И.В. - 14 стр.

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Questions for discussion

1. What problems underlie the definition of the sentence? What is the

difference between the phrase and the sentence, the sentence and a

combination of sentences?

2. Characterize the sentence as a language unit. What properties does the

sentence possess?

3. What criteria are taken into account when sentences are differentiated as

simple/composite, one-member/two-member, etc.?

4. What is the difference between elliptical and one-member sentences?

5. What communicative types of sentences are traditionally differentiated?

6. What classification of sentences was proposed by prof. Pocheptsov? What

principle is it based on?

7. What problems underlie the notion of the composite sentence? What

principles can serve as the basis of a general classification of composite

sentences?

8. What is a compound sentences? How are clauses in a compound sentence

connected?

9. What is a complex sentence? What connectors can be used to join clauses of

a complex sentence together? What types of subordinate clauses are

differentiated?

10. What is an asyndetic sentence? Can asyndetic sentences be classified into

compound and complex? What semantic relations are possible between

clauses of an asyndetic sentence?

11. What sentences are referred to as semi-composite sentences? What makes

semi-composite sentences transitional structures?

12. What is a compound-complex sentence?

Practice Assignment

I. State what makes the following sentences transitional from simple to composite:

1. The large lady and the clerk having compromised on fifty words, Lois took a

blank and wrote her telegram. (F. S. Fitzgerald)