VII. Tricky Transitives Exercise: think of the omitted object:
1. You wash and I'll dry.
2. Are you ready to order?
3. Do you drink?
4. Who scored?
5. It's your turn to deal.
6. I'll weed and you can water.
VIII. Underline the direct object and the object complement in the following sentences.
1. We appointed George the chairman.
2. She placed the icecream in the freezer on Sunday.
3. Sione made Mele very sad yesterday
4. Mele laid the dress on the bed.
5. Sione was chosen captain at the meeting.
6. Mele called Sione an idiot.
7. Stand the candles on the mantel near the fireplace.
8. He found her very beautiful in that dress.
9. Mele imagined Sione a rich man.
10. Sione proved Mele wrong in the research.
REFERENCES
1. Блох М.Я. Теоретическая грамматика английского языка. − М.: Высшая школа, 2003. – С. 95-112.
2. Блох М.Я., Семенова Т.Н., Тимофеева С.В. . Практикум по теоретической грамматике английского языка. – М.: Высш. шк., 2004. – С. 141-143.
3. Иванова И.П., Бурлакова В.В. , Почепцов Г.Г.. Теоретическая грамматика современного английского языка. - М.: Высшая школа, 1981. – С. 46-50.
11. PERSON AND NUMBER
‘There are, in fact, two categories which are crucial to the construction of clauses; neither of them are categories which appear in traditional grammars.’
Towell, R. and Hawkins, R1.
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The problems for discussion
1. Conjugation of the finite forms of verbs.
2. The reflective nature of these categories.
3. The blending of their morphemic expression.
4. The forms of person and number of different groups of verbs.
5. The oppositional presentation of the category.
6. The “notional concord” cases.
7. The cases of contextual neutralization of the category.
Key terms: category of number (the singular vs. the plural), dexis, category of person (1st person, 2nd person, 3d person), notional concord (‘agreement in sense’), fragmental (asymmetrical, deficient) category, archaic form, dialectal and colloquial person-number neutralization
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