II. Define the communicative sentence type, dwell on the actual division of the following sentences. Define the speech-act features of these sentences

The first sentence is interrogative and its rheme "what have ... got" is informationally open. As it is a special question, the nucleus of inquiry is marked by the interrogative pronoun which is the rhematic peal. The theme of the sentence is "you". The second sentence is elliptical and rhematic. The rhematic peak of the answer ("His book") is the reverse substitute of the interrogative pronoun. As the two sentences make up a thematic unity, the theme in the answer is zeroed.

a)

1. "I'd like to know what you think of her. Go and see Dr. Rose first." (Christie)

2. Why not walk down to the village after tea? (Christie)

3. "I would strongly advise you, Mr. Worthing, to try and acquire some relations as soon as possible, and to make a definite effort to produce at any rate one parent, of either sex, before season is quite over." (Wilde)

4. Suppose you fetch your bricks and build a nice house, or an engine (Christie).

5. "The Duke is greatly agitated - and as to me, you have seen yourself the state of nervous prostration to which the suspense and the responsibility have reduced me." (Doyle)

6. "Mr. Holmes, if ever you put forward your full powers, I implore you to do so now." (Doyle)

7. "I beg you, Mr. Holmes, to do what you can." (Doyle)

8. "You will kindly close the door," said Holmes. "Now, Banister, will you please tell us the truth about yesterday's incident?" (Doyle)

9. "Would you please remain in the room? Stand over there near the bedroom door. Now, Soames, I am going to ask you to have the great kindness to go up to the room of young Gilchrist, and to ask him to step down into yours." (Doyle)

10. Can the leopard change his spots?

b)

1. "I wonder why you never answered her letter." (Maugham)

2. Over the breakfast she grew serious (Lawrence).

3. "We can be perfectly frank with each other. We want to know, Mr. Gilchrist, how you, an honorable man, ever came to commit such an action as that of yesterday?" (Doyle)

4. "You will show these gentlemen out, Mrs. Hudson, and kindly send the boy with this telegram. He is to pay a five-shilling reply." (Doyle)

5. "I wish you, Mr. Holmes, to come to Mackleton with me by the next train." (Doyle)

6. "You will kindly sign that paper, Mr. Sandefond, in the presence of these witnesses." (Doyle)

7. "I suppose you haven't such a thing as a carriage in your stables?" (Doyle)

8. "Tell us about your last talk with Dr. Wilbour." (Schrieber)

9. Paul felt as if his eyes were coming very wide open. Wasn't he to take Clara's fulminations so seriously, after all? (Lawrence)

10. "I hope you won't let him keep the stocking." "You are not going to tell me everything I shall do, and everything I shan't." (Lawrence)

c)

1. Oh, Mr. Holmes, you must save him - you must save him! I tell you that you must save him! (Doyle)

2. "Mrs. Hudson," I said, going out to her, "I want you to pack my bags, please." (Hardwick)

3. I suppose you were in a convent? (Hemingway)

4. "Listen," George said to Nick. "You better go see Ole Anderson." (Hemingway)

5. Thanks for coming to tell me about it (Hemingway).

6. Don't you want me to go and see the police? (Hemingway)

7. "Why don't you try to go to sleep?" (Hemingway)

8. "Don't be melodramatic, Harry, please," she said (Hemingway).

9. "How do you feel?" she said. "All right." (Hemingway)

10. "Who likes to be abused?" (Sheldon)

d)

1. "You don't want to go mixing yourself up in things that are no business of yours—" "There's nothing to be mixed up in according to you," said Tuppence. "So you needn't worry at all." (Christie)

2. "And there are people who are terribly unhappy, who can't help being unhappy. But what else is one to do, Tommy?" "What can anyone do except be as careful as possible." (Christie)

3. "No, I don't want you to go. After all, the last time, remember how frightfully rude she was to you?" (Christie)

4. Would you like to come up now? (Christie)

5. "I'll put them (roses) in a vase for you," said Miss Packard. "You won't do anything of the kind." (Christie)

6. "You go away," added Aunt Ada as a kind of postscript, waving her hand towards Tuppence who was hesitating in the doorway (Christie).

7. "I hope they brought you some coffee?" (Christie)

8. "The old lady I was talking to," said Tuppence. "Mrs. Lancaster, I think she said her name was?" (Christie)

9. “Can you tell me a little more about her, who her relations were, and how she came to come here?” (Christie)

10. “God help the home of the aged that you go to. You’ll be Cleopatra most of the time, I expect.” (Christie)

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Seminar 7

SIMPLE SENTENCE: CONSTITUENT STRUCTURE

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1. The notion of sentence. The sentence as a language unit. The two aspects of the sentence. The notions of predication and modality.
2. Structural classifications of simple sentences:

a) one-member and two-member sentences; different approaches to the interpretation of one-member sentences; the notion of a predicative line;

b) complete and elliptical sentences;