Сборник упражнений по грамматике английского языка Part I. Accidence the noun
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Part II. SYNTAXTHE SIMPLE SENTENCEExercise 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 question1. "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) Exercise 6. Point oui the predicate and say to what type it belongs.1. Presently she grew tired of that and looked across at her sister. (Galsworthy)2. You shall have as many dances as you like. I shan't dance with anyone except you End Maxim. (Du Maurier)3. Well, d'you feel any better now? (Priestley) 4. Harry was enjoying his dinner. (Mansfield)5. Alice went on, he ought to stop doing nothing and criticising everybody. (Lindsay)6. Everything is being taken down and used against you. (Lindsay)7. The story will only get repeated and exaggerated. (Du Maurier)8. But I've got to have a word with him. We got to do something about it. (Pnchard) 9. She became bitter and unapproachable. (Thorne) 10. Her marriage was more or less fixed for the twenty-eighth of the month. They were to sail for India on September the fifth. (Lawrence)11. Leila's partner gave a little gasping laugh. (Mansfield)12. You are to go straight to your room. You are to say nothing of this to anyone. (De la Roche) 13. He was a country doctor. He died young. (Sanborn) 14. I began to stammer my apologies. He would not listen to me. (Du Maurier). 15. To walk in this way behind him seemed to Annette already a sufficient marvel. (Murdoch)16. A ship — the Vestris — is reported to be arriving at Joppa. (Douglas)17. Led was having a little new sort of weeping fit daily or every other day. (Wescott) 18. Even now he was able to find a thin excuse for that young idiot. (Kahler)19. Do not delay, there is'no time. Teacher Williams lies dead already. (Buck) 20. The grey house had ceased to be a home for family life. (Buck) 21. Kit had. been told to do nothing in particular. (Lindsay) 22. Lately he'd made efforts to bring the matter up with Brian or Colin. (Lindsay)23. The sky shone pale. (Mansfield)24. These days are finished. They are blotted out. I must begin living all over again. (Du Maurier)25. Next day, by noon, I was up and dressed, and sat wrapped in a shawl by the nursery hearth. (Ch. Bronte)26. And all the while he felt the presence of Pat and had to keep on resisting the impulse to turn round. (Lindsay)27. But Abramovici remained quiet. (Heym)28. Morning broke quiet and hushed, subdued as if holding its breath. (Abrahams)29. There were a number of people out this afternoon. And the band sounded louder and gayer. (Mansfield)30. This has proved surprisingly difficult. (Murdoch) Exercise 7. Say where the predicate is simple and where it is compound (nominal or verbal).1. Two young girls in red came by. (Mansfield)2. Demetrius came alive and pressed a flock of inquiries. (Douglas)3. And in many ways along lines you'd more or less approve, I am coming to feel the mill apart of myself. (Lindsay)4. He tried to be both firm and friendly. I've felt dependent on him. (Lindsay)5. He now felt only a confused ache of memory and a growing desire to be home. (Lindsay)6. No one was there to meet Dick. He felt a twinge of disappointment. (Lindsay) 7. There was a silence but not an uncomfortable one. (Braine) 8. He was vaguely aware of his father standing by kitchen-range with his coat off. (Lindsay)9. The day of our wedding came. He was to cal( for me to choose the furniture. (Mansfield)10. A good reliable husband he'd make. And our Alice is a great one for wanting a place of her own. (Lindsay)11. That made all the difference. The room came alive at once. (Mansfield)12. "She sounds serious," Albertine insisted. "She keeps talking about it." (Kahler)13. Not even her own children had seen Ma break down. She'd keep a proud face always. (Mansfield)14. My lady keeps a list of the names in a little red book (Mansfield)15. Charlie kept quiet. (Priestley) 16. Cedric Thompson stood a good three inches above me. (Braine) 17. For a moment I stood aghast, peering after her shadowy figure, and wondering what had taken her. (Weyman) 18. And then they sat silent for a few moments together. (Trollope)19. I sat writing letters on a piece of paper with a pencil. (Haggard) 20. And for some time he lay gasping on a little flock mattress, rather unequally posed between this world and the next. (Dickens)21. After many adventures I and a little girl lay senseless in the Bad Lands. (Haggard) 22. He seemed glad to see me. (Du Maurier)23. At that moment everything in her life seemed to be a source of desperate anxiety. (Murdoch)24. You can smile away till you split your cheek, but you still got to do a day's work to earn a day's wages. Apples don't grow on monkey-trees. (Lindsay)25. She grew to know the two elderly men better than any other member of Eden's family. (London)26. Yates grew impatient. (Heym)27. She turned once more to Mr. Godfrey. (Collins)28. Gwendolen turned pink and pale during this speech. (Eliot)29. Mr. Bruff remained to dinner, and stayed through the evening. (Collins)30. Michelangelo remained silent. (Stone)31. I gave up the attempt and went upstairs to unpack. (Braine) 32. Michelangelo's knees went weak. He sat down on his bed. (Stone)33. I looked at the photograph above the mantelpiece and saw my own lace for the first time. (Braine) 34. Giovanni looked crestfallen. (Stone)35. He was beginning to sound really angry. (Murdoch) Exercise 8. Say where the reflexive pronoun is part of the predicate and where it is an object or a predicative.1. On my estate, we pride ourselves on other things besides hay. (Erskine) 2. She paused, her eyes never leaving my face. "I shall always blame myself for the accident." (Du Maurier)3. She raised herself suddenly in the tall chair, and looked straight at him. (Erskine) 4. Dick found himself walking in the direction of his friend Mike's place. (Lindsay)5. It was a Tuesday. My lady wasn't quite herself that afternoon. (Mansfield)6. He felt himself j unusually on edge, unable to maintain the impersonally smug tone of Stephenson. (Lindsay)7. Mrs. Danvers showed herself at last. (Du Maurier) Exercise 9. Point out the predicative and say by what it is expressed.1. Annette was completely dazed. (Murdoch)2. Their highest concept of right conduct, in his case, was to get a job. (London)3. I'm five foot eleven in my socks. (Braine) 4. Sally, herself, was quite content for a while to enjoy becoming acquainted with her son, washing and feeding him, taking him for walks in thej bush, singing him to sleep. (Prichard)5. Mr. de Morfe was as; generous and hail-fellow-well-met with them as ever.' (Prichard)\ 6. I am cold. And I always was such a one for being warm.» (Mansfield)7. Your resemblance to your mother is very striking.] (Murdoch)8. He did not answer. I was aware again of that feeling] of discomfort. (Du Maurier)9. I hated myself. My question had been degrading, shameful. (Du Maurier)10. Their interests were' hers as well as the interests of everybody. (Prichard)11. He's a good chap. He makes you feel it's worth while being alive. I (Lindsay)12. Arrived here, his first act was to kneel down on a| large stone beside the row of vessels, and to drink a copious draught from one of them. (Lindsay)13. Either course seemed unthinkable, without any connection with himself. (Lindsay)14. The nightmare of my life has come true. We are in danger of our lives. We are white people in a Chinese city. (Buck)15. The best thing is for you to move in with me and let the young lady stay with your mother. (Abrahams)16. But she was herself again, brushing her tears away. (Lindsay)17. The rest of the time was yours. (Douglas)18. How do you feel physically? (Ch. Bronte] 19. Who are you? (Shaw)20. The Irish are a philosophic as well as a practical race. Their first and strongest impulse is to make the best of a bad situation. (Dreiser) Exercise 10. Use the adjective or adverb.1. Catherine smiled at me very __ (happy, happily) (Hemingway) 2. I felt very __ myself, (good, well) (Hemingway)3. I felt __ when we started, (terrible, terribly) (Hemingway)4. He sounded __ and __. (brisk, briskly; cheerful, cheerfully) (Priestley) 5. It wil sound __. (strange, strangely)' (Dickens)6. The hay smelled __ (good, well) (Hemingway)7. I write English __ (bad, badly); (Ch. Bronte)8. I looked at her __ (attentive, attentively) (Ch. Bronte)9. But don't look __, my little girl. It breaks my heart, (sad, sadly) (Ch. Sront'e) 10. He was looking at me __ and __ (grave, gravely; intent, intently) (Ch. Bronte)11. It [the wine] tasted very __ after the cheese and apple, (good, well) (Hemingway)12. The brandy did not taste __ (good, well) (Hemingway)13. The pistol felt __ on the belt, (heavy, heavily) (Hemingway)14. Silas received the message __. (mute, mutely) (Eliot)15. I thought he looked __ (suspicious, suspiciously) (Hemingway) Exercise 11. Point out the subjective and the objective predicative and say by what part of speech it is expressed.1. How do you feel? (Hemingway) 2. The half hour he had with her... left him supremely happy and supremely satisfied with life. (London)3. How to be shown things and make appropriate comments seems to be an art in itself. (Leacock) 4. She had her arms about him, murmuring his name in a pleading question, but he held her away from him. (Wilson)5. From behind the verandah she heard these words: "I don't, Annette." Did father know that he called her mother Annette? (Galsworthy)6. He did not grow vexed; though I continued icy and silent. (Ch. Bronte)7. John Ferrier felt a different man now. (Conan Doyle) 8. I would suggest that in the meantime we remain perfectly quiet and keep these matters secret even from Oliver himself. (Dickens)9. He [Harper Steger] was not poor. He had not even been born poor. (Dreiser) 10. Gilt held him immobile for only an instant... (Wilson)11. As a gesture of proud defiance he had named his son Francis Nicholas. (Cronin) Exercise 12. Translate into English, using a compound nominal predicate.1. Музыка звучала чудесно. 2. Этот цветок хорошо пахнет. 3. Ваши слова звучат странно. 4. Этот огурец горький на вкус. 5. Бифштекс хорошо пахнет. 6. Эта материя груба на ощупь. 7. Вода в этой местности плоха на вкус. 8. Эта нота звучит резко. 9. Я чувствую себя плохо. 10. Она выглядит хорошо. 11. Она чувствует себя хорошо. 12. Она только кажется хорошей. 13. Пирожное хорошее на вид. 14. Свисток прозвучал пронзительно. 15. Эти розы пахнут упоительно. Exercise 13. Point out the predicate and say to what type it belongs. Translate into Russian.1. "It's no use," she said quietly. "I am bound to Morris." (Prichard)2. Her feet were never bound as the Chinese then bound the feet of their girls. (Buck)3. "I don't want to tell you," said Galahad. "But you are bound to have it." (Erskine) 4. "You are not bound to answer that question," he said to Rachel. (Collins)5. One of them was later sent to board in a missionary school and she was compelled to lose the foot bandages. (Buck)6. When she was sixteen she was a beauty. As the result she was compelled to go to the Emperor's palace. (Buck) 7. I was compelled to idleness. I had to listen to her long monologues on the Japanese. (Buck) 8. My mother was plainly fading. I was increasingly anxious about her. (Buck)9. We were anxious to cooperate. 10. My father gave it to my mother. It is the only possession I was able to save. (Douglas) Exercise 14. Point out the subject and the predicate.1. On her going to his house to thank him, he happened to see her through a window. (Dickens) 2. To describe one's character is difficult and not necessarily illuminating. (Murdoch)3. The three on the sofa rise and chat with Hawkins. (Shaw)4. Nothing seemed to matter. (London)5. To be wanted is always good. (Stone)6. Seeing you there will open up a new world. (Murdoch)!. Thereafter I read everything on the subject. I came to know many Negroes, men and women. (Buck)8. Elaine, this Jll-advised behaviour of yours is beginning to have results. (Erskine) 9. Presently all, was silent. They must have gone through the service doors into the kitchen quarters. (Du Maurier)10. The citizens of occupied countries were to be subjugated individually. (Wescoit) 11. It was all wrong this situation. It ought not to be happening at all. (Du Maurier)12. My way is not theirs, it is no use trying to run away from them. (Lindsay)13. No one got the better of her, never, never. (Du Maurier)14. Lewisham stopped dead at the corner, staring in blank astonishment after these two figures. (Wells)15.... We and all the people have been waiting patient for many an hour. (Jerome K. Jerome)16, One cannot help admiring the fellow. (Dickens)17. Then he [Tom] gave a low distinct whistle. It was answered from under the bluff. (Twain)18. The girl [Aileen] was really beautiful and much above the average intelligence and force. (Dreiser)19. This religion did give promise of creating a new society. There all men could be equally valuable as human beings. (Buck)20. We must begin here and now to show. Thus we might prove our difference from those white men. (Buck) Exercise 15. Explain why the predicate — verb is used in the singular or in the plural.1. The family were still at table, but they had finished breakfast. (Twain)2. There was a crowd of soldiers along the fence in the infield. (Hemingway)3.... the band was stopped, the crowd were partially quieted, and Horatio Fizkin, Esquire, was permitted to proceed. (Dickens)4. Down by the Embankment... a band of unemployed were trailing dismally with money-boxes. (Galsworthy)5. The multitude have something else to do than to read hearts and interpret dark sayings. (Ch. Bronte)6. The newly married pair, on their arrival in Harley Street, Cavendish Square, London were received by the chief butler. (Dickens)7. There was a dreaminess, a preoccupation, an exaltation, in the maternal look which the girl could not understand. (Hardy)8. The company are cool and calm. (Dickens)9. As of old, nineteen hours of labour a day was all too little to suit him. (London)10. There were still two hours of daylight before them. (Aldington)11. At last they came into a maze of dust, where a quantity of people were tumbling over one another... (Dickens)12. Tom's whole class were of a pattern-restless, noisy and troublesome. (Twain)13. A group of men were standing guarded by carabinieri. (Hemingway)14. The loving couple were no longer happy. (Reade) Exercise 16. Use the appropriate iorm of the verb.1. Huckleberry's hard pantings __ his only reply, (was, were) (Twain)2. There __ many a true word spoken in jest, Mr. Cokane. (is, are) (Shaw)3. Each of us __ afraid of the sound of his name, (was, were) (Bennett)4. On such meetings five minutes __ the time allotted to each speaker, (was, were) (London)5. Neither his father nor his mother __ like other people... (was, were) (Dreiser)6. It was dark and quiet. Neither moon nor stars __ visible. (was, were) (Collins) 7. Plenty of girls __ taken to me like daughters and cried at leaving me... (has, have) (Shaw)8. He and I __ nothing in common, (has, have) (Galsworthy)9. But I wonder no wealthy nobleman or gentleman __ taken a fancy to her: Mr. Rochester, for instance, (has, have) (Ch. Bronte)10. To be the busy wife of a busy man, to be the mother of many children ... __, to his thinking, the highest lot of woman, (was, were) (Trollope)11. Her family __ of a delicate constitution, (was, were) (E. Вгопte)12. Hers __ a large family, (was, were) 13. "Well," says my lady, " __ the police coming?" (is, are) (Collins)14. Nobody __ I am here, (knows, know) (London)15. But after all, who __ the right to cast a stone against one who __ suffered? (has, have; has, have) (Wilde)16. There are men who __ dominion from the nature of their disposition, and who __ so from their youth upwards, without knowing... that any power of dominion belongs to them, (exercises, exercise; does, do) (Trollope)17. Plain United States __ good enough for me. (is, are) (London)18. He half started as he became aware that someone near at hand __ gazing at him. (was, were) ((Aldington)19. Fatting cattle __ from 5 to 10 gallons of water a head daily, (consume, consumes) (Black) 20. She is supposed to have all the misfortunes and all the virtues to which humanity __ subject, (is, are) (Trollope)21. It was a market-day, and the country people __ all assembled with their baskets of poultry, eggs and such things... (was, were) (Thackeray)22. The precept as well as the practice of the Primitive Church __ distinctly against matrimony, (was, were) (Wilde)23....Ratterer and Hegglund..., as well as most of the others, __ satisfied that there was not another place in all Kansas City that was really as good, (was, were) (Dreiser)24. Twelve years __ a long time, (is, are) (Galsworthy)25. There __ a great many ink bottles, (was, were) (Dickens)26. May and I — just friends, (is, are) (Keating) 27. The bread and butter __ for Gwendolen, (is, are) (Wilde)28. I am afraid it is quite clear, Cecily, that neither of us __ engaged to be married to anyone, (is, are) (Wilde)29. It __ they that should honour you. (is, are) (Trollope) 30. Great Expectations by Dickens __ published in I860, (was, were) 31. The family party __ seated round the table in the dark wainscoted parlour... (was, were) (Eliot)32. Everybody __ clever nowadays, (is, are) (Wilde)33. There __ a number of things, Martin, that you don't understand, (is, are) (Wilde)34. The number of scientific research institutes in our country __ very large. (is, are) 35. Her hair, which __ fine and of medium brown shade, __ brushed smoothly across the top of her head and then curled a little at each side, (was, were; was, were) (Priestley) 36. After some apologies, which __ perhaps too soft and sweet... the great man thus opened the case, (was, were) (Trollope)37. It was as if the regiment __ half in khaki, half in scarlet and bearskins: (was, were) (Galsworthy)38. Youth and Age __ a weekly, and it had published two-thirds of hjs twenty-one-thousand-word serial when it went out of business, (was, were) (London)39. There __ a number of men present, (was, were) (Walpole) 40....the flowers came in such profusion and such quick succession that there __ neither time nor space to arrange them, (was, were) (Heytn) Exercise 17. Point out the kind of object and say by what it is expressed. Translate into Russian.I. What have you got there? (Cronin)2. She pretended not to heart (Mansfield)3. Marcellus found the luggage packed and strapped for the journey. (Douglas)4. I know all about it, my son. (Douglas)5. I have to show Dr. French his. room. (Shaw) 6. I never heard you express that opinion before, sir. (Douglas) 7. Halting, he waited for the Roman to speak first. (Douglas) 8. He was with you at the banquet. (Douglas)9. They don't want anything from us — not even our respect. (Douglas)10. I beg your pardon for calling you by your name. (Shaw)11. I found myself pitying the Baron. (Mansfield)12. I've got it framed up with Gilly to drive him anywhere. (Kahler)13. He smiled upon the young men a smile at once personal and presidential. (Kahler)14. Gallio didn't know how to talk with Marcellus about it. (Douglas)15. Laura helped her mother with the good-byes. (Mansfield)16. Why did you not want him to come back and see me to-day? (Mansfield)17. Mr. Jinks, not exactly knowing what to do, smiled a dependant's smile. (Dickens)18. He found it impossible to utter the next word. (Kahler)19. Marcellus issued crisp orders and insisted upon absolute obedience. (Douglas)20. He's going to live his own life and stop letting his mother boss him around like a baby. (Kahler)21. I will suffer no priest to interfere in my business. (Shaw) 22. Papa will never consent to my being absolutely dependent on you. (Shaw)23. Do you know anything more about this dreadful place? (Douglas)24. She hated Frisco and hated herself for having yielded to his kisses. (Prichard)25. They had been very hard to please. Harry would demand the impossible. (Mansfield)26. His part in the conversation consisted chiefly of yesses and noes. (Kahler)27. Michelangelo could not remember having seen a painting or sculpture of the simplest nature in a Buanarrotti house. (Stone) Exercise 18. Point out the Complex Object and say, by what it is expressed. Translate into Russian.1. He could see the man and Great Beaver talking together. (London)2. She had lied about the scullery door being open on the night of the disappearance of the bank-notes. (Bennett)3. Each woman thought herself triumphant and the other altogether vanquished. (Buck)4. Thus these two waited with impatience for the three years to be over. (Buck)5. Sammy watched Mr. Cheviot slowly take the receiver from the girl. (Priestley) 6. He hated her to work in the boarding house. (Prichard)7. The Consul felt his legs, give way. (Cronin)8. Mother objected to Aimee being taken away from her game with the boys. (Prichard)9. They had never heard him speak with such urgency, his eyes glowing like amber coals in the fading light. (Stone) Exercise 19. Translate into English.1. Он посвящал музыке все свободное время. 2. Объясните мне, пожалуйста, значение новых слов. 3. Мы приписываем теплому течению мягкий климат этого острова. 4. Он открыл нам секрет своего изобретения. 5. Байрон посвятил одну из своих поэм Гете. 6. Вы видели, чтобы кто-нибудь вышел из комнаты? 7. Она объявила нам о своем желании уехать работать на целину. 8. Не приписывайте мне того, чего я никогда не делал. 9. Он посвящает общественной работе все свое свободное время. 10. Мне вчера не починили часы. 11. Я никогда не слышал, чтобы об этом студенте плохо отзывались. 12. Я хочу перешить свое пальто. 13. Войдя з картинную галерею, я увидела мою приятельницу, стоявшую у окна. 14. Она хотела, чтобы ей сшили пальто к Новому году. 15. Спойте нам. 16. Спойте нам еще одну арию из «Евгения Онегина». Exercise 20. Point out the attribute and say by what it is expressed.1. The first day's journey from Gaza to Ascalon was intolerably tedious. (Douglas)2. What do you say to a stroll through the garden, Mr. Cockane? (Shaw)3. It was such a cruel thing to have happened to that gentle, helpless creature. (Prichard)4. He was always the first to enter the dining-room and the last to leave. (Mansfield)5. Sally hated the idea of borrowing and living on credit. (Prichard)6. The two men faced each other silently. (Douglas)7. It was an easy go-as-you-please existence. (Prichard) 8. I am not in the habit of reading other people's letters. (Shaw) 9. He thrust his hands deep into his overcoat pockets. (Galsworthy) 10. It was not a matter to be discussed even with a guide, philosopher and friend so near and trusted as the Professor. (Kahler) 11. Ethel, the youngest, married a good-for-nothing little waiter. (Mansfield)12 He pointed to a house on a near-by shady knoll. (Douglas)13. It was just one little sheet of glass between her and the great wet world outside. (Mansfield)14. She had a pair of immense bare arms to match, and a quantity of mottled hair 'arranged in a sort of bow. (Mansfield)15. Dicky heard right enough. A clear, ringing little laugh was his only reply. (Mansfield)16. To think that a man of his abilities would stoop to such a horrible trick as that. (Dreiser)17. There was a blackbird perched on the cherry-tree, sleek and glistening. (Braine) 18. A middle-aged man carrying a sheaf of cards walked into the room. (Braine) 19. Daniel Quilp began to comprehend the possibility of there being somebody at the door. (Dickens)20. Still, Pett's happiness or unhappiness is quite a life and death question with us. (Dickens) Exercise 21. Point out the apposition and say whether it is close or loose.1. Maria, the mother, had not taken off her shawl. (Croniri)2. One of our number, a round-faced, curly-haired little man of about forty, glared at him aggressively. (Braddon) 3. There are plenty of dogs in the town of Oxford. (Jerome K. Jerome)4. You look all right, Uncle Soames. (Galsworthy)5. James, a slow and thorough eater, stopped the process of mastication. (Galsworthy)6. He felt lost, alone there in the room with that pale spirit of a woman. (London)7. But the doctor —a family physician well past middle age — was not impressed. (Carter)8. They, the professors, were right in their literary judgement... (London)9. In consequence neither Oscar nor his sister Martha had had any too much education or decent social experience of any kind. (Dreiser)10. But now he had seen that world, possible and real, with a flower of a woman... (London) Exercise 22. Point out the kind of adverbial modifier, and state by what it is expressed. Translate into Russian.l.Gallio slowly nodded his head. (Douglas)2. He's coming Saturday at one o'clock. (Cronin)3. Lucia stopped them in their tracks with a stern command. (Douglas)4. Sally was sitting on the front seat of the buggy, dumb and unhappy at being ignored. (Prichard)5. I feel my own deficiencies too keenly to presume so far. (Shaw)6. A few miners hung on, hoping the mines would reopen. (Prichard) 7. The first bar of gold raised hopes sky high. (Prichard)8. She had to talk because of her desire to laugh. (Mansfield)9. Gallic pushed back his huge chair and rose to his full height as if preparing to deliver an address. (Douglas)10. He takes a glass and holds it to Essie to be filled. (Shaw)11. Morris was walking too quickly for Sally to keep up with him. (Prichard)12. The poor woman was annoyed with Morris for dumping his wife on her. (Prichard)13. It was quite a long narrative. (Douglas)14. Of course Laura and Jose were far too grown-up to really care about such things. (Mansfield)15. Now and then Gavin would stop to point out silently some rarity. (Cronin)16. And for all her quiet manner, and her quiet smile, she was full of trouble. (Dickens)17. The young schoolteacher's spirits rose to a decided height. (Dreiser)18. Evil report, with time and chance to help it, travels patiently, and travels far. (Collins) Exercise 23. Follow the direction for Exercise 22.1. At the top of the stairs she paused to wave to him. (Douglas)2. Marcellus accepted this information without betraying his amazement. (Douglas)3. Having knocked on his door, she firmly entered Grandpa's room. (Cronin)4. After waiting for a few minutes, he marched up the steps, closely followed by Demetrius. (Douglas)5. Why do you always look at things with such dreadfully practical eyes? (London)6. David appeared in the open door, one hand clutching a sheaf of bills, under his other arm an account book. (Stone)7. That night I could scarcely sleep for thinking of it. (Cronin)8. She did feel silly holding Moon's hand like that. (Mansfield)9. Then Gallio cleared his throat, and faced his son with troubled eyes. (Douglas)10. We have some exceptionally fine roses this year. (Douglas)11. Jonathan shook his head slowly, without looking up, his tongue bulging his cheek. (Douglas)12. But it was of no use. Marcellus' melancholy was too heavy to be lifted. (Douglas)13. She [Sally] never would have been able to make a success of the dining-room but for the kindness and assistance of the men. (Prichard)14. On being informed of the old man's flight, his fury was unbounded. (Dickens)15. To be a complete artist it is not enough to be a painter, sculptor or architect. (Stone)16. Sally was furious with herself for having fainted. (Prichard)17. With all her faults, she was candor herself. (Hardy)18. The receiving overseer, Roger Kendall, though thin and clerical, was a rather capable man. (Dreiser) Exercise 24. Point out all the adverbial modifiers expressed by Predicative Constructions. Translate into Russian. 1. Marcellus strode heavily to and fro before the entrance, his impatience mounting. (Douglas)2. On her applying to them, reassured by this resemblance, for a direction to Miss Dorrit, they made way for her to enter a dark hall. (Dickens)3. Well, women's faces have had too much power over me already for me not to fear them. (Hardy)4. I almost doubt whether I ought not to go a step farther, and burn the letter at once, for fear of its falling into wrong hands. (Collins)5. Michelangelo went to Jacopo's side, ran his hand carressingly over the sacrophagus, his fingers tracing out in its low relief the funeral procession of fighting men and horses. (Stone)6. Michelangelo went into the yard and sat in the baking sun with his chin resting on his chest. (Stone) 7. That over, she sat back with a sigh and softly rubbed her knees. (Mansfield)8. He opened the door for the Senator to precede him. (Douglas)9. They were returning to Fogarty's; their hands full of flowers. (Prichard)10. She pressed his hand mutely, her eyes dim. (London)11. His being an older man, that made it all right. (Warren)12. On the second of these days Granacci burst into the studio, his usually placid eyes blinking hard. (Stone)13. He stood beside me in silence, his candle in his hand. (Conan Doyle)14. In a room within the house, Cowperwood, his coat and vest off, was listening to Aileen's account of her troubles. (Dreiser)15. There was room enough for me to sit between them, and no more. (Collins) Exercise 25. Say what parts of the sentence are introduced by the preposition with or without.I. Steger was beside himself with fear. (Dreiser)2. Basil, let us have something iced to drink, something with strawberries in it. (Wilde)3. She continued silent, leaning back, her smile now glowing with all its insolence. (Murdoch)4. His friend Francesco Granacci was a nineteen year-old youth, a head taller than himself, with hay-colored hair and alert blue eyes. (Stone)5. Without beauty of feature or elegance of form, she pleased. Without youth and its gay graces, she cheered. (Ch. Bronte)6. The real bourgeois Ruth, with all the bourgeois failings and with the hopeless cramp of the bourgeois psychology in her mind, he had never loved. (London)7. Mr. Godfrey's fine eyes filled with tears. (Collins) 8. The gravel paths were moist and the grass was wet with dew. (Hemingway)9. There were villas with iron fences and big overgrown gardens and ditches with water flowing and green vegetable gardens with dust on the leaves. (Hemingway)10. My Anna is worth two of her, with all her beauty and talent. (Eliot)11. He was standing now with the waves breaking at his feet. (Lawrence) Exercise 26. Point out all the independent elements and say by what they are expressed.1. In the morning, however, there was a comforting excitement in leaving the train. (Kahler)2. May be, after all, there was something in that wild idea of Albertine's. (Kahler)3. They gave him, in fact, a pleasant feeling of vicarious fatherhood. (Kahler) 4. Nicholas, unfortunately, had passed an unquiet night. (Cronin) 5. Nevertheless, despite this reasoning there remained in the Consul's breast that strange sense of jealousy. (Cronin)o. now fortunate to have such a reliable couple in the house. Naturally, he counted on the Burtons as an official standby. (Cronin)7. I am a human being, senor, and must take advantage of my opportunities. Frankly, I am accustomed to good wine. (Cronin) 8. He was surprised, evidently, to find Sally so much at home and bustling about like that. (Prichard)9. She was quite unconcerned, as a matter of fact, about being left alone in the camp, (Prichard)10. Perhaps her colonial upbringing had something to do with it. (Prichard)11. It was still too early for his ride, but he did not go back to bed, he wasn't deeply worried, to be sure, but he knew that he wouldn't be able to sleep. (Kahter) Exercise 27. Point out what parts are detached and by what they are expressed.1. Now their laughter joined together, seized each other and held close, harmoniously, intertwined through each other's fabric and substance. (Stone)2. Huckleberry Finn was there, with his dead cat. (Twain)3. We reached the station, with only a minute or two to spare. (Collins)4. Blind and almost senseless, like a bird caught in a snare, he still heard the sharp slam of the door. (Cronin)5. As he strode along he was conscious, within himself, of a deep, pervading sense of power. (Cronin)6. With his hands by his sides, he strolled very slowly and inconspicuously, down the border. * (Cronin)7. One summer, during a brief vacation at Knocke, his visit had come to the notice of Harrington Brande. (Cronin)8. We are very poor, senor, with many mouths to feed, and these fish would make a good meal for us. (Cronin)9. Unbelievingly, his eyes fixed, lips tightly compressed, Brande stared at the advancing youth. (Cronin)10. He remembered her brave and hardy, wjth a small-boned eager face, enriched with weather and living. (Sdnborn) 11. The girls had met and were strolling, arm in arm, through the rose arbor. (Douglas)12. Stout, middle-aged, full of energy, clad in a grease-stained dark blue print dress... she bustled backwards and forwards from the kitchen to the dining-room. (Prichard)13. She had become very drab and unattractive, with all the hard work, no doubt. (Prichard)14. But, for all that, they had a very pleasant walk. (Dickens) Exercise 28. Point out homogeneous parts, define them and say by what they are expressed.1. He had lived with this block for several months now, studied it in every light, from every angle, in every degree of heat and cold. (Stone)2. He felt discouraged, strangely empty. (Cronin)3. There were tangerines and apples stained with strawberry pink. (Mansfield)4. He came in slowly, hesitated, took up a toothpick from a dish on the top of the piano, and went out again. (Mansfield)5. But I was exceedingly nice, a trifle diffident, appropriately reverential. (Mansfield)6. From the edge of the sea came a ripple and whisper. (Wells)7. They went side by side, hand in hand, silently toward the hedge. (Galsworthy)8. The light oiltside had chilled, and threw a chalky whiteness on the river. (Galsworthy)9. Thousands of sheets must be printed, dried, cut. (Heym)10. Opening the drawer he took from the sachet a handkerchief and the framed photograph of Fleur. (Galsworthy)II. The Captain was mostly concerned about himself, his own comfort, his own safety. (Heym)12. Her mother was speaking in her low, pleasing, slightly metallic voice. (Galsvuorthy) 13. And suddenly she burst into tears of disappointment, shame and overstrain. (Galsworthy)14. She extended a slender hand and smiled pleasantly and naturally. (Wales) 15. Then, without a word of warning, without the shadow of a provocation, he bit that poodle's near foreleg. (Jerome /C- Jerome) 16. It could be smashed by violence but never forced to fulfil. (Stone)17. Never before had the friar had such power and never had his voice rung out with such a clap of doom. (Stone) Exercise 29. Analyse the following sentences.1. His heart felt swollen in his chest. (Stone) 2. The girl [Aileen] was really, beautiful and much above the average intelligence and force. (Dreiser)3. Footsore and downhearted, they were making their way back to Coolgardie doing a bit of prospecting. (Prichard)4. The idleness made him cranky. (Stone)5. The prior's hearty, warm-cheeked face went dark at the mention of Savanarola's name. (Stone)6. Ah, to be a soldier, Michelangelo, to fight in mortal combat, to kill the enemy with sword and lance, conquer new lands and all their women? That is the life! (Stone) 7. He said it in a very mature, man-to-man tone. (Warren)8. Evidently George and the sheriff were getting along in a very friendly way, for all the former's bitter troubles and lack of means. (Dreiser)9. Together they sketched the apostles, the one bald-headed, the other supporting the weeping John. (Stone)10. With all his brightness and cleverness and general good qualities, Mr. Franklin's chance of topping Mr. Godfrey in our young lady's estimation was, in my opinion, a very poor chance indeed. (Collins)11. Suddenly all the differences between life and death became apparent. (Stone)12. Michelangelo began to see pictures in his mind: of struggles between men, of the rescue of women, of the wounded, the dying. (Stone)13. I am a thousand times cleverer and more charming than that creature, for all her wealth. (Thackeray)14.1'mnot accustomed to having more than one drink. (Tennessee Williams)15. Bertoldo, I feel the need to be solitary, to work beyond all eyes, even yours. (Stone)16. Miss Fulton laid her moonbeam fingers on his cheeks and smiled her sleepy smile. (Mansfield)17. Sally found it difficult to visit anybody herself. (Prichard)18. And surely, no man in his senses wants the disastrous consequences of this rush to go any further. (Prichard)19. To draw one does not need big muscles. (Stone)20. And yet, as though overcome, she flung down on a couch and pressed her hands to her eyes. (Mansfield)21. It was a simple face and could have been handsome, in spite of its saffron colouring, but for the soft, full mouth. (Cronin)22. The Lieutenant, without cap, sword or gloves, and much improved in temper and spirits by his meal, chooses the lady's side of the room, and waits, much at his ease, for Napoleon to begin. (Shaw)23. With his strange, hawking cry and the jangle of the cans the milk-boy went his rounds. (Mansfield)24. The man and daughter, the mother being dead, brought their letter from a church in West Tennessee and were accepted forthwith into fellowship. (Warren)25. He could not bring himself to face Stanek. (Heym)26. There was a two-storey new wing, with a smart bathroom between each two bedrooms and almost up-to-date fittings.. (Lawrence)27. Her [Aileen's] eyes gleamed almost pleadingly for all her hauteur, like a spirited collie's, and her even teeth showed beautifully. (Dreiser)28. In the afternoon, leaning from my window, I saw him pass down the street, walking tremulously and carrying the bag. (Lawrence)29. Amazed and amused, they watched white men scurrying about the ridge, digging and burrowing into the earth like great rats. (Prichard)30. He sat down by the oak tree, in the sun, his fur coat thrown open, his hat roofing with its flat top the pale square of his face. (Galsworthy)31. She was remaining upstairs to give Mary full pleasure of being hostess at her own party. (Murdoch)32. It was pleasant to travel this way, all expenses paid by "the Firm". (Warren)33. One of them even opened the car door for him, with the awkward deference ritually paid in Johntown to the crippled or sick. (Warren)34. She was sitting there very quietly, her legs bent back under her, her yellow skirt evenly spread to make a circle on the green grass, her hands lying supine, slightly curled, and empty on her lap, in a sweet humility, her waist rising very straight and small from the spread circle of the skirt, her back very straight but her neck gently inclining to one side. (Warren) |