Arrange the word-groups according to the degree of their motivation, starting with the highest.

WORD-GROUPS

State meanings of the given polysemantic adjectives on the basis of their lexical valency, i. e. with the help of nouns they are combined with.

Model: smart: 1) shirt, car, garden, officer; 2) person, child, carpenter; 3) blow, rise/fall, attack; 4) restaurant, set (society)

According to its lexical valency the adjective smart has the following meanings: 1) 'neat and stylish in appearance'; 2) 'good or quick in thinking, clever'; 3) 'quick and forceful'; 4) 'being or used by very fashionable people'.

full: 1) bottle, glass, train, drawer, mouth; 2) truth, name, address, year, height; 3) speed, marks, force, gallop;

dry: 1) shirt, soil, paint; 2) climate, month, heat, summer; 3) sherry, wine; 4) book, subject, lecture, text; 5) joke, answer, humour, thanks, manners;

broad: 1) shoulders, river, chest, staircase, smile; 2) lands, plains, fields; 3) opinions, view, taste, ideas; 4) outline of a plan (framework), sense; 5) hint, statement, purpose, distinction; 6) joke, laugh, story, humour;

ugly: 1) face, man, houses, furniture, building, picture, surroundings; 2) scene, wound, confrontation, clouds; 3) ideas, feelings, rumours, moment;

wide: 1) road, gate, river, gap, avenue, foot; 2) interests, experience, support, variety, selection, choice.

Translate the sentences into Russian paying special attention to the grammatical valency of the italicized words. State the difference in the grammatical valency of Russian and English words.

Model: to die — to succumb: These animals died of starvation. About 400,000 Americans succumb each year to smoking-related illnesses.

1. to suffocate — to choke: The dog was suffocated by smoke. I broke the windows for us not to be suffocated by the petrol. She was choked with sobs. He was choked with angry emotion.

2. to ride — to go: My little daughter can ride a bike. He rides a horse perfectly. I don't want to go by train. If we go by bus we'll be in time there.

3. to cure — to treat: This medicine will cure you of your cough. Nothing seemed to cure him of his nervousness. In this hospital Ann is treated for her headaches with quite a new drug. The boys were treated for cuts and bruises rather long.

4. to blame — to accuse: The investigator blamed the driver for meeting with the accident. He blamed her sister for her child's death. I don't want to accuse him of telling lies. She said that her employers accused her of theft.

5. to let — to allow: Let me have a look at that letter. Sue doesn't let her kids eat candy. We do not allow people to smoke anywhere in the building. Don't allow your problems to dominate your life.

6. Read the passage below. Write out combinations of words distributing them among the following groups: a) predicative; b) non-predicative. In the non-predicative group single out coordinative word-combinations.

She was silent. Vaguely, as when you are studying a foreign language and read a page which at first you can make nothing of, till a word or a sentence gives you a clue; and on a sudden a suspicion, as it were, of the sense flashes across your troubled wits, vaguely she gained an inkling into the working of Walter's mind. It was like a dark and ominous landscape seen by a flash of lightning and in a moment hidden again by the night. She shuddered at what she saw.

(from The Painted Veil, XXVI by W. S. Maugham)

7. Taking into account the criterion of distribution, from the passage given in task 6, write out: 1) endocentric; 2) exocentric word-combinations. What subgroups of endocentric word-combinations can be singled out?

Model: to study a language

ü The word-combination to study a language is endocentric. According to its central member, i. e. the verb to study, this word-combination is verbal.

Arrange the word-groups according to the degree of their motivation, starting with the highest.

1) gay bird, beautiful bird, blackbird;

2) cold wind, cold feet, cold war, cold hands;

3) light hand, light burden, light supper, light artillery;

4) blue funk (cтрах), blue skirt, blue stocking, blue fox;

5) big cheese, delicious cheese, white cheese, Swiss cheese;

6) wicked tongue, smoked tongue, coated tongue;

7) big boy, big house, big money, big talk;

8) angry tone, high tone, mental tone.

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