18th Century Britain. Иностранный язык. Фомина И.В. - 4 стр.

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Ex. 3. a) Make adverbs from the following adjectives using the suffix –ly.

Easy, immediate, brutal, general, open, individual, possible, independent.
      b) Write some adverbs which don’t have the suffix –ly.


Ex. 4. Translate these adjectives into Russian paying attention to the negative affixes
–less, in-, im-, ir-, il-, un-, de-.

Hopeless, immediate, undisputed, impossible,              uncontrolled,    independent,
irresponsible, decomposition, incapable, illegal.


Ex. 5. What does “s” mean in the following words and word combinations –
possessives or plurals?

Catholics, its cradle, the House of Commons, Parliament’s existence, its power, the
king’s ministers.


Ex. 6. Read the text.

    William III had to do much to secure his hold, not only upon England but upon
Scotland and Ireland. In 1689 James II landed in Ireland, where he had an army ready
to hand, and was easily able to stir up a national rising of the native Catholics against
the Protestant “garrison”. In July 1690 William defeated James at the battle of Boyne.
This event has been celebrated since by Orangemen, as Protestants of Northern
Ireland belonging to the Orange Order call themselves.
    In October 1691 the last Irish general surrendered at Limerick after a brilliant but
hopeless struggle. As a condition of surrender William promised religious toleration
for the Irish Catholics, a promise that was immediately broken by the passing of
severe Penal Laws which deprived them of all civil and religious rights. The new
conquest of Ireland was followed by fresh confiscations of land, and henceforward
the country was ruled more brutally and openly than ever before as a colony existing
for the exclusive benefit of the English.
    In Scotland the new regime was accepted without much opposition. Protestants in
Scotland welcomed the expulsion of James, and by 1692 William III’s sovereignty
was undisputed throughout the British Isles.
    After William of Orange and Mary had been declared king and queen, Parliament
added to the laws of the constitution. The Triennial Act, 1694, obliged the king to
summon at least every three years. The act of Settlement, 1701, included rules
which, had they not become a dead letter, would have made government chaotic and
strangled cabinet government, as the British were to know it, in its cradle. No person