Теоретическая грамматика. Теорграм. Comment on the actual division of

• Название: Comment on the actual division of
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Объедините в группы:

1. 
   исчисляемые существительные;
   

2. 
   существительные singularia tantum;
   

3. 
   существительные pluralia tantum
   

army, cavalry, crowd, courage, peace, tongs, advice, peasantry, evidence, family, money, hair, wages, acoustics.

3. Define the type of the morphemic distribution according to which the given words are grouped.

MODEL: insensible - incapable The morphs "-ible" and "-able" are in complementary distribution, as they have the same meaning but are different in their form which is explained by their different environments.

1. 
   impeccable, indelicate, illiterate, irrelevant;
   

2. 
   undisputable, indisputable;
   

3. 
   published, rimmed;
   
4. 
   seams, seamless, seamy.
   

3. 
   Group the words according to a particular type of morphemic distribution. MODEL: worked - bells - tells -fells - telling - spells - spelled - spelt -felled - bell. spells - spelled: the allomorphs "-s" and "-ed" are in contrastive distribution (= fells - felled); bell - bells: the allomorph "-s" and the zero allomorph are in contrastive distribution; spelt - spelled: the allomorphs "-t" and "-ed" are in non-contrastive distribution; worked - spelled: the allomorphs "-ed" [t] and "-ed" [d] are in complementary distribution, etc.
   

1. 
   burning - burns - burned - burnt;
   

2. 
   dig - digs - digging - digged - dug - digger;
   

3. 
   light - lit - lighted - lighting - lighter;
   

4. 
   worked - working - worker - workable - workoholic.
   

7. Define the types of the clauses making up the following sentences:

1. 
   As her invitation was so pressing, and observing that Carrie wished to go, we promised we would visit her the next Saturday week (Clause of Reason)(Grossmith).
   
2. 
   Lupin, whoseback wastowardsme, did not hear me come in. (Grossmith). (Relative/adjective clause)
   

3. 
   I rather disapprove of his wearing a check suit on a Sunday(Nominal clause), and I think he ought to have gone to church this morning (Independent clause)(Grossmith).
   
4. 
   It irritated the youth that his elder brother should be made something of a hero by the women,(Nominal clause) just because he didn't live at home and was a lace-designer and almost a gentleman (Clause of Reason)(Lawrence).
   
5. 
   But Alfred was something of a Prometheus Bound, so the women loved him (Lawrence).(Clause of Reason)
   
6. 
   She hated him in a despair that shattered her and broke her down (Relative clause), so that shesufferedsheerdissolutionlikeacorpse,(Result clause) and was unconscious of everything save the horrible sickness of dissolution that was taking place within her, body andsoul(Relative clause) (Lawrence).
   
7. 
   Strange as my circumstances were, the terms of this debate are as old and commonplace as man (Stevenson). (Comparative clause)
   
8. 
   Then, astheendlessmomentwasbrokenbythemaid'sterrifiedlittlecry, he pushed through the portieres into the next room (Fitzgerald). (Adverbial clause of time)
   
9. 
   La Falterona watched him scornfully ashegroveledonthefloor (Maugham). (Adverbial clause of time)
   

8. Define the type of the subject and the predicate of the following sentences:

1. 
   The door was opened by a scraggy girl of fifteen with long legs and a tousled head (Maugham).
   
2. 
   "We've been married for 35 years, my dear. It's too long." (Maugham)
   

3. 
   I should merely have sent for the doctor (Maugham).
   

4. 
   Mrs. Albert Forrester began to be discouraged (Maugham).
   

5. 
   "Who is Corrinne?" "It's my name. My mother was half French." "That explains a great deal." (Maugham)
   
6. 
   I could never hope to please the masses (Maugham).
   

7. 
   The coincidence was extraordinary (Maugham).
   

8. 
   Why should the devil have all the best tunes? (Maugham)
   

9. 
   No one yet has explored its potentialities (Maugham).
   

10. 
    I'm fearfully late (Maugham).
    

9. 
   Define the types of syntactical relations between the constituents of the following word combinations: 1. saw him, 2. these pearls, 3. insanely jealous.
   
10. Paraphrase the following circumlocutions using word combinations of the pattern Adj + N:

1. 
   insects with four wings --- four-winged insects
   

2. 
   youths with long hair --- long-haired youths
   

3. 
   a substance that sticks easily -- easily-sticking substance
   

4. 
   a colour that is slightly red -- reddish color
   

5. 
   manners typical of apes -- ape-like manners
   

11. Point out participle I, gerund and verbal noun in the following sentences:

1. 
   In the soul of the minister a struggle awoke. From wanting to reach the ears of Kate Swift, and through his sermons to delve into her soul, he began to want also to look again at the figure lying white and quiet in the bed (Anderson).
   
2. 
   That was where our fishing began (Hemingway).
   

3. 
   But she didn't hear him for the beating of her heart (Hemingway).
   

4. 
   Henry Marston's trembling became a shaking; it would be pleasant if this were the end and nothing more need be done, he thought, and with a certain hope he sat down on a stool. But it is seldom really the end, and after a while, as he became too exhausted to care, the shaking stopped and he was better (Fitzgerald).