verb as a part of speech in modern english

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1524243611_71272.doc verb as a part of speech in modern english problems to be discussed: 1. the characteristic features of verbs as a part of speech 2. verbs are morphologically most developed part of speech 3. the types of verbs 4. the grammatical categories of verbs: voice, mood, tense, number and others. verb as a part of speech words like to read, to live, to go, to jump are called verbs because of their following features. 1. they express the meanings of action and state; 2. they have the grammatical categories of person, number, tense, aspect, voice, mood, order and posteriority most of which have their own grammatical means; 3. the function of verbs entirely depends on their forms: if they in finite form they fulfill only one function – predicate. but if they are in non-finite form then they can fulfill any function in the sentence but predicate; they may …

l come, have asked, is helped ... there are productive and non-productive ways of word-formation in present-day english verbs. affixation is productive, while variation of sounds and suppletion are non-productive. notional and functional verbs from the point of view of their meaning verbs fall under two groups: notional and functional. notional verbs have full lexical meaning of their own. the majority of verbs fall under this group. function verbs differ from notional ones of lacking lexical meaning of their own. they cannot be used independently in the sentence; they are used to furnish certain parts of sentence (very often they are used with predicates). function verbs are divided into three: link verbs, modal verbs, auxiliary verbs. link verbs are verbs which having combined with nouns, adjectives, prepositional phrases and so on add to the whole combination the meaning of process. in such cases they are used as finite forms of …

a) variation of sounds in the root: should - would - initial consonant change begin - began - begun - vowel change of the root catch - caught - caught - root - vowel and final consonant change spend - spent - spent - final consonant change; b) suppletion: be – was / were go – went c) unchanged forms: cast - cast - cast put - put – put by suppletion we understand the forms of words derived from different roots. a. smirnitsky (20) gives the following conditions to recognize suppletive forms of words; 1. when the meaning of words are identical in their lexical meaning. 2. when they mutually complement one another, having no parallel opposemes. 3. when other words of the same class build up a given opposemes without suppletivity, i.e. from one root. thus, we recognize the words be - am, bad - worse as suppletive …

to sail a ship, to nod approval ... the same is found in the construction "cognate object": to live a long life, to die the death of a hero ... the grammatical categories of verbs grammatical categories of verbs in this question we do not find a generally accepted view-point. b.a. ilyish (15) identifies six grammatical categories in present-day english verb: tense, aspect, mood, voice, person and number. l. barkhudarov, d. steling distinguish only the following grammatical categories: voice, order, aspect, and mood. further they note, that the finite forms of the verb have special means expressing person, number and tense. (4) b. khaimovich and rogovskaya (4): out of the eight grammatical categories of the verb, some are found not only in the finites, but in the verbids as well. two of them-voice (ask - be asked), order (ask - have asked) are found in all the verbids, and the …

ects. h. poutsma (39) besides the two voices mentioned above finds one more voice – reflexive. he writes: "it has been observed that the meaning of the greek medium is normally expressed in english by means of reflexive or, less frequently, by reciprocal pronouns". it is because of this h. poutsma distinguishes in modern english the third voice. he transfers the system of the greek grammar into the system of english. he gives the following examples: he got to bed, covered himself up warm and fell asleep. h. whitehall (43) this grammarian the traditional terms indirect and direct objects replaced by inner and outer complements (words of position 3 and 4) consequently. the passive voice from his point of view is the motion of the words of position 3 and 4 to position one. the verb is transformed into a word-group introduced by parts of be, become, get and the …

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1524243611_71272.doc verb as a part of speech in modern english problems to be discussed: 1. the characteristic features of verbs as a part of speech 2. verbs are morphologically most developed part of speech 3. the types of verbs 4. the grammatical categories of verbs: voice, mood, tense, number and others. verb as a part of speech words like to read, to live, to go, to jump are called verbs because of their following features. 1. they express the meanings of action and state; 2. they have the grammatical categories of person, number, tense, aspect, voice, mood, order and posteriority most of which have their own grammatical means; 3. the function of verbs entirely depends on their forms: if they …

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