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Materials: Blackboard, Projector, laptop, different handouts
Aim: To raise the awareness about
the Course “Practical Grammar”
Time:
80 min
According to the syntactic function of verbs, which depends on the extent to which they retain,
weaken or lose their meaning, they are divided into notional verbs, auxiliary verbs and link
verbs.
1.
Notional verbs
are those which have a full meaning of their own and can be used without
any additional words as a simple predicate. Here belong such verbs as
to write, to read, to
speak, to know, to ask.
e.g. Ricky
surrounded
her with great care and luxury.
(Stern)
2.
Auxiliary verbs
are those which have lost their meaning and are used only as form words,
thus having only a grammatical function. They are used in analytical forms. Here belong such
verbs as
to do, to have, to be, shall, will, should, would, may.
e.g. I
don't
recollect
that he ever did anything, at least not in my time.
(Galsworthy)
Their father...
had
come
from Dorsetshire near the beginning of the century.
(Galsworthy)
But all this time James
was
musing...
(Galsworthy)
He
would have
succeeded
splendidly at the Bar.
(Galsworthy)
This evening Bathsheba
was
unusually
excited,
her red cheeks and lips contrasting lustrously
with her shadowy hair.
(Hardy)
(link verb)
There is a special group of verbs which cannot be used without additional words, though they
have a meaning of their own. These are modal verbs such as
can, may, must, ought,
etc.
e.
e.g.
I
crouched
against
the
wall
of
the
gallery
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