Part 2. Practice section

Exercise 1. Answer the following questions:

1. What is the main communicative unit of human language?

2. What is the difference between clauses and sentences?

3. What is the difference between finite and non-finite predication?

4. In what ways clauses may be linked together?

5. What are the principles of simple sentences classification?

6. What types of simple sentences do you know?

Exercise 2. Define the kinds of the following simple sentences:

1. Another day of rain.

2. How very dark it is!

3. Is he wise?

4. And then the silence and the beauty of the place.

5. (1)" How did she look?" (2)"Pretty".

6. She was glad, wasn't she?

7. He was trying to keep from laughing.

8. We don't have to worry.

9. His heart felt swollen.

10. (1)"According to Jerry Hall you're going abroad". (2)"Eventually", I said.

(3)"What does that mean?" (4)"Soon. (5) In a week or so",

11. (1)"Where have you been?" (2)"Calling on the British".

12. You sound serious.

Exercise 3. Answer the following questions:

1. At what structural levels of syntactic system can the principal and secondary parts of a sentence be expressed?

2. What is the difference between the simple verbal and the compound nominal predicate?

3. What is the difference between the compound verbal modal and the compound verbal aspect predicates?

4. What is the difference between the direct and the indirect objects?

5. What parts of a sentence can be expressed by the predicative constructions?

6. What parts of a sentence can be expressed by clauses?

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