New Grammar
Grammar, as you know, is a science that studies structure of any language. The two parts of it are MORPHOLOGY and SYNTAX. Morphology deals with parts of speech. You have been mostly doing morphology so far. Syntax studies sentences, their types and their meanings.
SENTENCE
Every time we speak, we use sentences.
A sentence is a combination of words which expresses a complete thought.
It is important what sentences are for:
• to make statements (declarative sentences): a) A rose bush grew in the garden (positive sentence); b) Alice can't read yet (negative sentence).
• to ask questions (interrogative sentences): a) Did Mozart travel a lot in his childhood? (a general question); b) Was John born in New York or Boston? (an alternative question); c) She doesn't speak French, does she? (a disjunctive question); d) Where do you live? Who did it? (special questions)
• to request or demand action (imperative sentences): Give me a call tomorrow, please.
• to express emotions (exclamatory sentences): What a wonderful dancer she is!
Note: Don’t forget to use a full stop, a question or an exclamatory mark at the end of a sentence. Mind that in polite requests or when you suggest or offer something, a question mark is also used at the end of a sentence. Could I have a glass of water? Cart you post this letter for me? I wonder if we could borrow your dictionary?
33. Read the sentences and say which of them are declarative, interrogative, imperative or exclamatory.
Example: Modernism in music involved a radical break with the existing conventions (positive declarative).
1. The piano is not the oldest of the keyboard instruments.
2. Was Placido Domingo а tenor or а bass?
3. How long did Sergei Prokofiev live abroad before he returned to the Soviet Union?
4. What an unusual electronic instrument!
5. I don’t think I need a dictionary of common musical terms.
6. Tell me all you can about rock’n’roll.
7. Immigrants to the USA brought folk music from their native countries.
8. By the 1920s the popularity of jazz had spread far beyond the black community, hadn’t it?
9. A British group, the Beatles, adopted rock, then mixed it with musical ideas from other parts of the world.
10. How dramatic the music sounds!
11. Let’s go and listen to The Marriage of Figaro by W. A. Mozart.
12. Have you ever heard the name of Duke Ellington?
Grammar, as you know, is a science that studies structure of any language. The two parts of it are MORPHOLOGY and SYNTAX. Morphology deals with parts of speech. You have been mostly doing morphology so far. Syntax studies sentences, their types and their meanings.
SENTENCE
Every time we speak, we use sentences.
A sentence is a combination of words which expresses a complete thought.
It is important what sentences are for:
• to make statements (declarative sentences): a) A rose bush grew in the garden (positive sentence); b) Alice can't read yet (negative sentence).
• to ask questions (interrogative sentences): a) Did Mozart travel a lot in his childhood? (a general question); b) Was John born in New York or Boston? (an alternative question); c) She doesn't speak French, does she? (a disjunctive question); d) Where do you live? Who did it? (special questions)
• to request or demand action (imperative sentences): Give me a call tomorrow, please.
• to express emotions (exclamatory sentences): What a wonderful dancer she is!
Note: Don’t forget to use a full stop, a question or an exclamatory mark at the end of a sentence. Mind that in polite requests or when you suggest or offer something, a question mark is also used at the end of a sentence. Could I have a glass of water? Cart you post this letter for me? I wonder if we could borrow your dictionary?
33. Read the sentences and say which of them are declarative, interrogative, imperative or exclamatory.
Example: Modernism in music involved a radical break with the existing conventions (positive declarative).
1. The piano is not the oldest of the keyboard instruments.
2. Was Placido Domingo а tenor or а bass?
3. How long did Sergei Prokofiev live abroad before he returned to the Soviet Union?
4. What an unusual electronic instrument!
5. I don’t think I need a dictionary of common musical terms.
6. Tell me all you can about rock’n’roll.
7. Immigrants to the USA brought folk music from their native countries.
8. By the 1920s the popularity of jazz had spread far beyond the black community, hadn’t it?
9. A British group, the Beatles, adopted rock, then mixed it with musical ideas from other parts of the world.
10. How dramatic the music sounds!
11. Let’s go and listen to The Marriage of Figaro by W. A. Mozart.
12. Have you ever heard the name of Duke Ellington?
