Курсовая работа: Subject: ways of expressing the sentence
To be a rich man, Lieutenant, is not always roses and beauty. (Heym) [13, 226]
To walk is useful. Walking is useful. [17, 38]
6. A gerund, a gerundial phrase or construction;
Lying doesn’t go well with me.
Winning the war is what counts. [7, 67]
Walking is a healthy exercise.
Watching and ministering Kit was her best care. (Galsworthy) [11, 335]
Teaching others teaches yourself. [9, 185]
7. Any part of speech used as a quotation;
On is a preposition.
A is the first letter of the English alphabet.
And is a conjunction.
No is his usual reply to any request. [13, 227]
^is the sign of perpendicular.[16, 50]
8. A group of words which is one part of the sentence, i.e. a syntactically indivisible group.
The needle and thread is lost. (here the subject represents one person).
Their friend and defender is darkly groping towards the solution. [7, 67]
Twice two is four.
How to do this is a difficult question. [11, 335]
9. It as the subject of the sentence.
In English the pronoun it is sometimes used as the subject of a sentence.
Table
| Types of subject it | Characteristics | Examples |
| Notional |
it represents a living being or a thing and has the following characteristics: P stands for a definite thing or some abstract idea – the personal it; P points out a person or thing expressed by a predicative noun, or it refers to the thought contained in a preceding statement, thus having a demonstrative meaning – the demonstrative it; |
The door opened. It was opened by a young girl of thirteen or fourteen. (Dickens) If this is a liberty, it isn’t going to mean a thing. (Lindsay) It is John. It was a large room with a great window. (Dickens) К-во Просмотров: 437
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