VI. Write a poem to introduce parts of speech to your school pupils. Make use of the following example.

Seminar IV

Parts of Speech

THEORETICAL QUESTIONS

1) The principles of discrimination of parts of speech. Five basic criteria.

2) Notional classes of words.

3) Formal classes of words.

4) Various classifications of parts of speech:

a) Morphological classification by H.Sweet, O. Jespersen

b) positional classification by Ch. Frees

READING MATERIAL

1. Blokh M.Y. A Course in Theoretical English Grammar. - M., 2000. - P. 37 -48.

2. Ilyish B. The Structure of Modern English. - L., 1971. - P.27-35.

3. Khaimovich B.S, Rovovskaya B.I. A Course of English Grammar. – M., 1967. – P.32-51.

4. Karapetova Y. The ABC of English Morphology. – B., 2002. – P. 51-54.

I. COMMENT ON THE FOLLOWING TERMS:

II. What is the main difference between notional and functional parts of speech?

III. Characterize each notional part of speech according to 5 criteria. What is the meaning of each functional part of speech?

IV. Fill in the gaps.

1. Classifying words into parts of speech we state their lexico-grammatical meaning, which is not the individual meaning of a separate … but the meaning uniting all words of the given ….

2. Classifying words into parts of speech we state their …, by which we mean morphological characteristics of a certain class of words.

3. Parts of speech are divided into two categories on the following principle: notional words denote things, actions and other extralinguistic phenomena, whereas … words denote relations between notional words.

4. Parts of speech are ….

V. Write a fairy-tale about parts of speech based on the problems in their system. Begin like this: “Once upon a time…”.

VI. Write a poem to introduce parts of speech to your school pupils. Make use of the following example.

The Parts of Speech

A “noun” is the name of anything
As “school” “garden”, “boy” or “thing”.

Adjectives tell the kind of noun,
As “great”, “small”, “pretty”, “white” or “brown”.

Instead of nouns the pronouns stand,
As “he”, “she”, “us”, “your arms”, “my hand”.

Verbs tell us something being done:
“To read”, “count”, “laugh”, “carry”, “run”.

How things are done the adverbs tell
As “slowly”, “quickly”, “ill” or “well”.

Conjunctions join the words together,
As “man and woman”, “wind and weather”.

The prepositions stand before
A noun, as by or through the door.

The interjection shows surprise,
As “Oh! How pretty! Ah! How wise! ”

Three little words you often see
Are articles “a”, “an” and “the”.

The whole are called the parts of speech,
Which reading, writing, speaking teach.

VII. Write a fairy-tale about parts of speech based on the problems in their system. Begin like this: “Once upon a time…”.

VIII. You are a pupil of nursery/ primary/ secondary school. You are very inquisitive. Ask your group mates some naive questions (their answers should be based on theoretical question your subgroup was speaking about).