Лекции по теоретической грамматике английского языка для студентов
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. He thought that the positions, or the slots, in the sentences were sufficient for the purpose of the classification of all the words of the English language. Frame A The concert was good. Frame B The clerk remembered the tax. Frame C The team went there. The position discussed first is that of the word concert . Words that can substitute for concert (e.g. food, coffee, taste , etc.) are Class 1 words. The same holds good for words that can substitute for clerk, tax and team – these are typical positions of Class 1 words. The next important position is that of was , remembered and went ; words that can substitute for them are called Class 2 words. The next 17 position is that of good . Words that can substitute for good are Class 3 words. The last position is that of there ; words that can fill this position are called Class 4 words. According to the scholar, these four parts of speech contain about 67 per cent of the total instances of the vocabulary. He also distinguishes 15 groups of function words set up by the same process of substitution but on different patterns. These function words (numbering 154 in all) make up a third of the recorded material. Charles Fries does not use the traditional terminology. To understand his function words better, we shall use, where possible, their traditional names: Group A words (determiners); Group B (modal verbs); Group C (the negative particle “not”); Group D (adverbs of degree); Group E (coordinating conjunctions); Group F (prepositions); Group G (the auxiliary verb “to”); Group H (the introductory “there”); Group I (interrogative pronouns and adverbs); Group J (subordinating conjunctions); Group K (interjections); Group L (the words “yes” and “no”); Group M (the so-called attention-giving signals: look, say, listen); Group N (the word “please”); Group O (the forms “let us”, “lets” in request sentences). It is obvious that in classifying words into word-classes Charles Fries in fact used жүктеу/скачать 0,5 Mb. Достарыңызбен бөлісу:
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