A. T. Iriskulov Theoretical Grammar of English

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MINISTRY OF HIGHER AND SECONDARY SPECIALIZED 
EDUCATION
Uzbek State World Languages University
A.T. Iriskulov
Theoretical Grammar of English
Tashkent 2006

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Reviewed by:
A. Kuldashev
R. Alimardanov
Layout and design:
E. Ablyazizova
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Contents
Lecture 1
Language and Speech Levels……………………………………………………………….……… 5
Lecture 2
The Grammatical Structure of a Language………………………………………………………… 8
Five Signals of Syntactic Structure………………………………………………………………… 9
Lexical and grammatical Meaning ………………………………………………………………… 9
Lecture 3
The Morphemic Structure of the English Language……………………………………………….. 11
The Types of Morphemes………………………………………………………………………..… 12
Lecture 4
The Grammatical Categories. …………… ……………………………………………
14
Lecture 5
The Parts of Speech………………… …………………………………………………
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Lecture 6
The Noun…………………………………………………………………………………………... 21
The Number and Case in Modern. English Nouns ………………………………….
22
The Category of Case in Nouns…………………………………………………………………… 23
Gender in Modern English ………………………………………………………………………… 24
Lecture 7
The Adjectives……………………………………………………………………...
27
The Grammatical Category of Degrees of Comparison…………………………………………… 27
Substantivization of Adjectives…………………………………………………………………… 29
Lecture 8
The Verb…………………………………………………………………………………………… 30
Verb as a Part of Speech ………………………………………………………………………….. 30
The Types of Verbs ……………………………………………………………………………….. 30
Notional and Functional Verbs ……………………………………………………………………. 31
Regular and Irregular Verbs ……………………………………………………………………….. 31
Transitive and Intransitive Verbs …………………………………………………………………. 32
The Grammatical Categories of Verbs …………………………………………………………… 32
The Category of Voice …………………………………………………………………………….. 32
The Grammatical Category of Mood ……………………………………………………………..
34
Other Categories of the Verbs …………………………………………………………………….. 35
The Category of Posteriority………………………………………………………………………
37
The Categories of Number and Person ………………………………………………………….
38
Lecture 9
The Adverb………………………………………………………………………………………… 39
The So-Called Phrasal Verbs………………………………………………………………………. 40
Statives or The Words of Category of State………………………………………
41