Using the sentence analysis plan from SEMINAR 13 make written analysis of the sentences.
Seminar 15
SEMI-COMPOSITE SENTENCE. SYNTAX OF THE TEXT
Get ready to answer the questions below.
1. What is the semi-composite sentence? How is it derived paradigmatically? Why is it called an intermediary phenomenon between the simple sentence and the composite sentence?
2. How can secondary predication be expressed in English?
3. What type of sentences is called primitivized?
4. What is the difference between semi-complex and semi-compound sentences?
5. What is the difference between semi-complex sentences affected by position-sharing and by direct linear expansion?
6. What are the types of semi-compound sentences?
7. What is the difference between monologue and dialogue sentence sequences?
8. How are sentence sequences divides by the types of sentence connection?
9. What is the difference between prospective and retrospective cumulation? What is the difference between conjunctive and correlative cumulation?
10. Why are parcellation and transposition of a cumuleme into a sentence called intermediary phenomena?
11. How can theme and rheme be arranged in a cumuleme?
Determine the type of the semi-composite sentence and describe its derivative history.
Model: I saw a cat creeping noiselessly down the staircase.ß I saw a cat. + The cat was creeping noiselessly down the staircase; a semi-complex sentence with a complex object participial structure
1) He returned home pale and puzzled. 2) The papers are unlikely to be published. 3) I want this to be done at once. 4) There was a man dressed in black. 5) With nothing to do, they stood and had a small talk. 6) The guests arriving, Mary Ellen hurriedly dumped the vegetables into the wok. 7) It was unusual for her to be late. 8) Before saying it he hesitated. 9) She’ll tell us when to open it. 10) She turned on her heels abruptly and left the room. 11) Is he or his father the head of the company? 12) Jeff, like everyone else, was bored to death. 13) I am neither for, nor against your decision.
Transform the sentences / sentence combinations below into semi-composite senteces.
1) There was nothing else in front of me. + There was only her face in front of me. 2) The entrance door stood open. + The door of the living-room stood also open. 3) He tore the photograph in half. + He threw the photograph in the fire. 4) Before him lay the road to fame. + The road to fame lured him. 5) The savage must have been asleep. + Or he might be very tired. 6) He leaped up in time and saw the Colonel rushing out of the door. 7) The officer received the messengers, took their letters, and though I stood with them, he completely ignored me. 8) He was sitting and staring down the gardens, and was trying to remember. 9) Rage flamed up in him. It contorted his face. 10) She looked at him and she saw again the devotion, the humility in his eyes.
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Determine the type of connection and connective means in the sentences sequences below (prospective or retrospective, conjunctive or correlative; substitutional correlative or representative correlative, etc).
1) I had to move on to see the woman. She was too busy to see me. 2) She must have been very tired. Yet, it didn’t show. 3) “Well, let me tell you something. Your old darling Father McCormack is an active IRA member” (Cole). 4) Her eyes were beautiful. It was the only attractive feature of her face, the nose was too big and the mouth too fleshy. 5) There is some bad feeling between several of the ministers. The Minister of the Interior is threatening to bring a charge of corruption against Mr. Kapperkham. Of course it is ridiculous, it is only a political move, but the Minister of the Interior is on very bad terms with the Prime Minister. He blames him for all his personal troubles (Brand).
Divide the text extracts into dectemes, pay attention to micro-topic change.
A poll of 10,000 single British men found 68 per cent preferred fresh-faced women rather than those plastered in make-up.
It didn’t, however, take into account those women who claim to need a case-load of cosmetics simply to achieve that no-make-up look.
Ninety-three per cent of British women use some kind of cosmetics. Some use up to 20 different products as part of their daily routine. In fact, Britons spend ₤5billion a year on cosmetics, no doubt largely financed by women adding to their bulging make-up bags.
But it seemed the highly groomed, highly made-up look favoured by singer Christina Aguilera could be making way for the more understated approach of Gwyneth Paltrow. She turned up at last month’s Glastonbury Festival looking particularly fresh-faced.
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(Daily Mail)
The waitress came running with two heavy mugs, and fussed over my companion.
“Silly girl,” he said when the waitress had bounced away. “She thinks I’ve got a pull. Nobody’s got a pull any more.” He leaned across the scarred table, sipping at his coffee. “Now tell me about poor Maude. Without coffee, I couldn’t take it.”
These 2 tasks are to be done in writing on a separate piece of paper and handed to the teacher. The points you earn for them will used as the points for the last (8th) seminar.
Using the sentence analysis plan from SEMINAR 13 make written analysis of the sentences.
1) When directly questioned about the matter, he had to admit the fact.
2) He wanted to figure this out for himself, but I couldn’t help giving him hints.
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