I. THE SIMPLE SENTENCE

1. Structural and Communicative Types of Sentences

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2. Modality. Moods in a Simple Sentence

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3. Negation

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II. MAJOR SENTENCE ELEMENTS

1. The Subject

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2. The Noun and the Noun Phrase

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3. Expressing the Reference of the Noun. The Article

3.1. General Outline and Functions of the Article

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3.2. The Use of Articles with Uncountable Nouns

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3.3. The Use of Articles with Proper Nouns. Some Specific Cases of the Use of Articles

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4. Noun Modifiers

4.1. Nouns in the Genitive Case as Noun Modifiers

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4.2. Adjectives and Nouns in the Common Case as Noun Modifiers

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5. The Predicate. Verb Complementation

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III. SECONDARY PARTS OF THE SENTENCE

1. Objects and Complements

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2. Adverbials

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• IV. PREDICATIVE COMPLEXES AS DIFFERENT PARTS OF THE SENTENCE
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IV. PREDICATIVE COMPLEXES
AS DIFFERENT PARTS OF THE SENTENCE

PART I. Test Your Knowledge

Answer the questions.
1. What is a predicative complex (or a predicative construction)?
2. What is the basic difference between a predicative complex and a phrase?
3. Which predicative complex can be used only as object?
4. How can the second component of the Objective Predicative construction be expressed?
5. In what cases is the bare Infinitive used as part of the Objective Predicative construction?
6. What is the syntactic function of the Absolute Nominative construction?
7. What varieties of the Absolute Nominative construction do you know?
8. Which two predicative complexes can be used as any part of the sentence?