Курсовая работа: Verb phrases

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• They water rat
• Some examples of the PP are:
• VP → V (NP) (NP) (PP)*
• There are two more types of phrases, that also need to be paid attention to: adjective phrases and adverb phrases.
• Adjective phrases. As well as noun phrases, there are also adjective phrases.
• He was a very talented architect [59]
• As an architect he was very talented
• NP → (Detv) (AdjP)* N
• Very interesting friendly indeed
• really good-looking always hungry
• Substitution test
• Cleft test
• Movement tests
• The fixity of Swithin's eye alone betrayed emotion[59, p.52]
• Modal Auxiliaries can, may, shall, will, must, could, would,…
• The most common pattern of forms in English verbs is the one represented n the table by play. There are effectively only four different forms (play, plays, playing, played), but because other common, but irregular, verbs distinguish, for example, the past tense (-ed) from the perfective form (-en), the regular verbs are also treated as though these forms were different.
• So the verbs have a covert complement in these cases, so that the theme and agent arguments are still in specifier positions. Hutchby and Wooffitt [30] actually make a somewhat stronger claim: they say that these phrase-structural configurations are the only ones in which NPs that bear theme and agent roles can be found. Let us consider the following:
• This subtle contrast between verbs and other categories has no obvious connection to the superficial inflectional properties of verbs, but it does suggest that there is a structural difference between verbs and predicate nouns/adjectives. A theory that starts with the assumption that only verbs take subjects directly gives us immediate leverage on this paradigm.
• Alternative definitions of ‘verb phrase’
• Summary of English verb phrase structures
• In his novel “FORSYTE SAGA” John Galsworthy preferably uses perfective and lexical verb phrases.
• The following table shows the prevailing quantity of lexical verb phrases, that mainly denote human feelings, emotions, thoughts, decisions. And the other major group of verb phrases the author uses is the perfective verb phrases. Galsworthy uses them in order to show, how his personages’ intentions are put into life, what means do they use, and what kind of results they bring out. Rarely he uses modal verbs, passive voice, and progressive verbs.
• Summary of verb phrase structures
• Type of VP
• Example
• Sum
• %
• Modal
• She ought to be very happy.
• Progressive
• Passive