2.7. The Pronoun, the Numeral and Functional Parts of Speech

I.    Oral Check-up on the Terms: a)   deixis, cohesive Devices, cardinals and ordinals, denominator and numerator, common and decimal fractions; b)    complementiser, ambiposition, circumposition, prepositional phrase, prepositional complement, adposition, particle, telic and atelic adpositions, projective and non-projective adpositions, copulative, adversative and causative-consecutive conjunctions

II. Topics for Discussion: 1)   Pronoun as a part of speech and its types. 2)    Peculiarities of Numeral: part-of-speech meaning and types of numerals. 3)   Pros and Cons of prepositions and conjunctions being classed together. 4)    Grammatical and non-grammatical prepositions. Other classifications of prepositions. What’s adposition? 5)   Semantic types of conjunctions. 6)    The Particle. 7)   The Modal Word.              8)    The Interjection.

III. Practical Assignments: 1)   Test Questions 2.6. 2)    Exercises for the Numeral (Romanova)