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1. Somebody outside pulled at the door. (Greene) 2. Outside it was getting dark. (Hemingway) 3. It was a nice little place and he liked the high mountain hauling up beyond. (Hemingway) 4. Outside, and beyond the road, lay the Park. (Murdoch) 5. There, just inside the door, stood a wide, shallow tray full of pots of pink lilies. (Mansfield) 6. It was dark inside. (Hemingway) 7. He wandered down the street again. (Lindsay) 8. He dressed for dinner early and was first down. (Galsworthy) 9. I drove back up the narrow road. (Hemingway) 10. They mounted up and up, through the musty smell of an old close house, little used, to a large garret bedroom. (Dickens) II. It was just that he had never really looked into a human face before. (Warren) 12. The afternoon before the attack was spent in putting the boats ready.

Exercise 3. State whether the boldfaced word is an adverb, a conjunction, a preposition, or a postposition.

1. They were reluctant to interfere in their niece's private affairs. (Lindsay) 2. A cool March air came in through the revolving door whenever the page-boy passed the guests in or out. (Baum) 3. She came back with a package and got in and we drove on. (Hemingway) 4. Bertine and I are just on our way home, truly. (Dreiser) 5. After dinner they sat about and smoked. (Aldington) 6. After she had left me I brooded on my situation. (Clark) 7. A little before midnight the thick fog that had been falling over the city became rain. (Saroyan) 8. She thought for a moment before she replied. (Trollope) 9. You have never worked at anything like this before, have you? (Dreiser) 10. I was born there, but have never been there since I was a baby. (Trollope) 11. I knew him well, but it was some years since, and I valued him as a man of singular probity and spirit. (Trollope) 12. On one point they were in agreement — George had degenerated terribly since joining the army. (Aldington) 13. At other times he was working in his vineyard from dawn till the heat drove him to rest and then again, when it was a trifle cooler till dusk. (Maugham) 14. After tea she fulfilled that promise to herself and took Jon up the hill. (Galworthy) 15. Rinaldi picked up the candle, lit it and went on reading. (Hemingway) 16. He glanced up reproachfully, caught the comic lift of her eyebrow just like their father's, laughed and felt better. (Galsworthy) 17. Lady Anna stood at the open window, looking across at the broad field and the river bank beyond... (Trollope) 18....there was a little hill and beyond a stone wail, an apple orchard. (Hemingway) 19. What, after all, did an extra five minutes matter? But he would pretend to himself that they mattered beyond measure. (Mansfield) 20. But he missed Fleur, who came down last. (Galsworthy) 21. The sun was going down and the day was cooling off. (Hemingway)

Exercise 4. Define the part of speech the boldfaced words belong to.

1. The only thing is to cut the knot for good. (Galsworthy) 2. I have only just come. I have not seen him yet. (Shaw) 3. Carrie said nothing, but bent over her work. (Dreiser) 4. It seemed to him that life was hollow, and existence but a burden. (Twain) 5. You never talk anything but nonsense. (Wilde) 6. He could not go on living here alone. (Galsworthy) 7. For your suggestion alone I could have you court-martialed. (Heym) 8. Clare had made one of her greatest efforts. (Galsworthy)- 9. With age one suffered from the feeling that one might have enjoyed things more. (Galsworthy) 10. The lieutenant's exile was to be only a temporary one. (Lindsay) 11. He steeled himself with that phrase, and tiptoed on; but the next door was harder to pass. (Galsworthy) 12. His tone was different from that of his friends. (Snow) 13. The startling discovery so terrified her that she could hardly repress a sound. (Hardy) 14. He ate all that was placed before him... (Dickens) 15. Look round this room. (Dickens) 16. They were only five at a round table, and it was very pleasant indeed. (Dickens) 17. I have just returned from my round of m.edical visits... (Collins) 18. At that moment the woman at the fire turned round. (Mansfield) 19. Columbus intended to round Africa and thus find a waterway to India. 20. Once we got inside the dressing-room, Jack lay down and shut his eyes. (Hemingway) 21. And life, unfortunately, is something that you can lead but once. (Maugham)

Part II. Syntax the simple sentence Exercise 1. Define the kinds of sentences according to the purpose of the utterance.

Laura was terribly nervous. Tossing the velvet ribbon over her shoulder, she said to a woman standing by, "Is this Mrs. Scott's house?" and the woman, smiling queerly, said, "It is, my lass." Oh, to be away from this! She actually said, "Help me God!" as she walked up the tiny path and knocked. To be away from these staring eyes, or to be covered up in anything, one of those women's shawls even! I'll just leave the basket and go, she decided. I shan't even wait for it to be emptied.

Then the door opened. A little woman in black showed in the gloom.

Laura said, "Are you Mrs. Scott?" But to her horror the woman answered, "Walk in, please, miss," arid she was shut in the passage. "No," said Laura, "I don't want to come in. I only want to leave this basket."

The little woman in the gloomy passage seemed not to hear her. "Step this way, please, miss," she said in an oily voice, and Laura followed her. (Mansfield)

Exercise 2. Define the type of question

1. "Who is he?" I said. "And why does he sit always alone, with his back to us too?" (Mansfield) 2. "Did she have a chill?" he asked, his eyes upon the floor. (Cronin) 3. You have Mr. Eden's address, haven't you, Mr. Ends? (London) 4. Is literature less human than the architecture and sculpture of Egypt? (London) 5. We shall be having some sort of celebration for the bride, shan't we, Mr. Crawley? (Du Maurier) 6. "Can I see the manager?" I said, and added politely, "alone." (Leacock) 7. When had the carriage been back from taking Miss June to the station? (Galsworthy) 8. What is the meaning of that? She is going to live in the house, isn't she? (Galsworthy) 9. He couldn't understand what Irene found wrong with him: it was not as if he drank. Did he run into debt, or gamble or swear? (Galsworthy) 10. Were you talking about the house? I haven't seen it yet, you know. Shall we all go on Sunday? (Galsworthy) 11. Don't you realize it's quite against the rules to have him. (Cronin) 12. How will you carry the bill into effect? Can you commit a whole country to their own prisons? (Byron)

Exercise 3. Point out two-member sentences (say whether they are complete or elliptical) and one-member sentences.

1. He stared amazed at the calmness of her answer. (Galsworthy) 2. We must go to meet the bus. Wouldn't do to miss it. (Cronin) 3. Obedient little trees, fulfilling their duty. (Kahler) 4. Lucretius knew very little about what was going on in the world. Lived like a mole in a burrow. Lived on his own fat like a bearin winter. (Douglas) 5. He wants to write a play for me. One act. One man. Decides to commit suicide. (Mansfield) 6. A beautiful day, quite warm. (Galsworthy) 7. "What do you want?" "Bandages, stuff for wounded." (Heym) 8. "How did he look?" "Grey but otherwise much the same." "And the daughter?" "Pretty." (Galsworthy) 9. And then the silence and the beauty of this camp at night. The stars. The mystic shadow water. The wonder and glory of all this. (Dreiser) 10. "I'll see nobody for half an hour, Macey," said the boss. "Understand? Nobody at all." (Mansfield) 11. "Mother, a man's been killed." "Not in the garden?" interrupted her mother. (Mansfield) 12. Garden at the Manor House. A flight of grey stone steps leads up to the house. The garden, an old-fashioned one, full of roses. Time of year, July. Basket chairs, and a table covered with books, are set under a large yewtree. (Wilde)

Exercise 4. Point out the subject and say by what it is expressed. Translate into Russian.

1. At that moment the postman, looking like a German army officer, came in with the mail. (Mansfield) 2. The clock struck eight. There was no sign of any of the other guests. (Huxley) 3. Now, there is something peculiarly intimate in sharing an umbrella. (Mansfield) 4. Together we walked through the mud and slush. (Mansfield) 5. Something impersonal and humble in that action seemed to reassure the Consul. (Cronin) 6. The sight of them, so intent and so quick, gave Bertha a curious shiver. (Mansflied) 7. Eight o'clock in the morning. Miss Ada Moss lay in a black iron bedstead, staring up at the ceiling. (Mansfield) 8. Still, the good of mankind was worth working for. (Galsworthy) 9. Sometimes the past injects itself into the present with a peculiar force. (Heym) 10. Forgetting some things is a difficult matter. (Voynich) 11. To cross from one end to the other was difficult because of the water. (Heym) 12. "A person doesn't have to be rich to be clean," Charles said. (Braine) 13. There was an eagerness and excitement in the faces of the men. (Heym) 14....and Timothy's was but one of hundreds of such homes in this City of London... (Galsworthy) 15. Let's get out quick. It's no good wasting time. (Maugham) 16. "Very well," said Soames, "then we know where we are." (Galsworthy) 17. Now, to go through a stormy night and with wet clothes, and, in addition, to be ill nourished and not to have tasted meat for a week or a month, is about as severe a hardship as a man can undergo. (London) 18. She did not know. The "No" was stronger than her craving to be in Frisco's arms and forget this dreary existence. (Prichard) 19. The mining industry might make wealth and power for a few men and women. But the many would always be smashed and battered beneath its giant treads. (Prichard) 20. Yes, that did sound rather far-fetched and absurd. (Mansfield) 21. This, of course, in her present mood, was so incredibly beautiful... She began to laugh. (Mansfield) 22. To live on good terms with people one must share their work and interests. (Prichard) 23. These three deemed themselves the queens of the school. (Ch. Bronte) 24. Who were these people? What are they? (Galsworthy) 25. His was the harsh world of reality. No one could walk around his drawing. (Stone) 26. Governing the district of Cremmen wasn't turning out to be an easy and pleasant job. (Heym) 27. The firing increased in volume. (Heym) 28. High and low all made fun of him. (Thackeray) 29. For a woman to look at her best is a point of discipline. (James) 30. Your coming home has made me as foolish as a young girl of nineteen. (Abrahams) 31. And now his heir and nephew, Thomas Esmond, began to bid for his uncle's favour. (Thackeray)

Exercise 5. State the nature of it. Translate into Russian.

1. It was dusky in the dining-room and quite chilly. (Mansfield) 2 The bell rang. It was lean, pale Eddie Warren in a state of acute distress. (Mansfield) 3. Oh! Ohl Oh! It was a little house. It was a little pink house. (Mansfield) 4. But in her bosom there was still that bright glowing place. It was almost unbearable. (Mansfield) 5. She sat up, but she felt quite dizzy, quite drunk. It must have been the spring. (Mansfield) 6. It was marvellous to be made love to like that. (Prichard) 7. It is the moon that makes you talk to yourself in that silly way. (Shaw) 8. It is very distressing to me, Sir, to give this information. (Dickens) 9. He took the path through the fields: it was pleasanter than the road. (Huxley) 10. If this is liberty, it isn't going to mean a thing. (Heym) 11. It was now almost four-thirty in the afternoon. (Dreiser) 12. I took a good room. It was very big and light and looked out on the lake. (Hemingway)

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Файл: Kaushanskaya Exercises.doc

Exercise 2. State whether the boldfaced word is an adverb or a preposition.