The simple sentence and its catagories

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THE SIMPLE SENTENCE AND ITS CATEGORIES
1. The problem of the sentence definition and its level belonging.
2. The main categories of the sentence:
a) predicativity: its role in the sentence; types of predication: primary vs.
secondary; explicit vs. implicit predication;
b) modality: its heterogeneous nature; the two types of modality: primary
(objective) and secondary (subjective); the culture- and gender-sensitive
character of modality;
c) negation and its types: complete vs. partial; grammatical vs. lexical;
explicit vs. implicit; direct vs. transferred negation; negation and the
communicative type of the sentence; the specific features of negation in
English.

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of English. The English language has a marked tendency towards

nominalization. Robert Lees called English “a nominalizing language” and

pointed out that due to nominalization the English language is 25% more

economical that German [Lees, 1960]. To this we may add than English is also

more economical than Russian due to the tendency towards nominalization.

      4. In the process of building a phrase the components of a phrase are not

just put together but the relations between them are based on certain types of

grammatical relations characteristic of a particular language. There are four

grammatical means of expressing syntactic relations between the components of

a phrase: agreement, government, adjoining and connection (the arrangement of

a phrase with the help of functional words). 

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