Practical Grammar
The Second Year of Studies
IV semester
- The infinitive. Nominal and verbal characteristics.
- The infinitive: forms of infinitive, functions in the sentence.
- The use of the infinitive without the participle to: bare infinitive and to-infinitive.
- Infinitive clauses as complex objects.
- Infinitive clauses as complex subjects.
- The for + NP + to-infinitive clause.
- Verbs and adjectives controlling infinitive
- The participle: forms and functions in the sentence.
- Participial clauses as complex objects.
- Participial clauses as complex subjects.
- Participial clauses as adverbial modifiers.
- Verbless clauses. (Absolute constructions without the participle.)
- Verbs and adjectives controlling ing-clauses.
- Verbal and Nominal characteristics of English verbals.
- Modal verbs: general characteristics.
- The modal verb can: meaning and use. Can (could)+ perfect infinitive.
- The modal verb may: meaning and use. May (might) + perfect infinitive.
- The modal verb must: meaning and use. Must + perfect infinitive.
- The modal verb should and ought to: meaning and use.
- Should and ought to + perfect infinitive.
- Modal expressions to have + perfect infinitive. To be + infinitive in comparison with
- The modal verbs shall, will, need, dare.
- The modal verbs must, should, ought to