Английский язык. Часть II. Коныгина Г.И - 11 стр.

3. Dickens's sharp ear for conversation helped him to ___ colourful characters
    through their own words.
4. The Concise Oxford Dictionary defines the word ___ as “writings whose
    value lies in the beauty of form or emotional effect.”
5. The poet Osip Mandelstam was sent to a concentration camp and his death
    for composing a ___ poem on Stalin.
6. None of Shakespeare's plays has survived in his handwritten ___.
7. Authors employ ___ ___ to place their books with publishers and to handle
    negotiations with them.
8. The functions of ___ ___ vary widely, ranging from the reviewing of books
    as they are published to systematic theoretical discussion.
9. Anton Chekhov began his writing career as the author of anecdotes for ___
    journals, signing his early work pseudonymously.
10. It is universally acknowledged that the ___ ___ of literature is as wide as
    human experience itself.
11. Due to his prolific ___ ___ Georges Simenon is regarded as the most widely
    published author of the 20th century.
12. In literature, ___ is usually understood as the location and time frame in
    which the action of a narrative takes place.
13. In his world famous novel Ulysses James Joyce makes use of stream-of-
    consciousness ___ which is believed to be a remarkable means of character
    portrayal.
14. George Orwell’s novel Nineteen Eighty-Four is a mordant ___ in which he
    presents a terrifying picture of life in totalitarian society.
15. Alongside with fiction writing, an American writer Edgar Allan Poe is fa-
    mous as a book ___, who produced a significant body of criticism.

Grammar

In the text, find and study the substantivized adjectives denoting people col-
lectively.
e.g. the silly, the affected
Here is a list of adjectives that can be used either as adjectives proper or as
substantivized nouns:

sick / privileged / deaf / poor / handicapped / disabled / dead / blind / homeless /
injured / unemployed / elderly / wealthy / good / wounded

Put the appropriate words from the list above into the gaps in the following
word combinations:

1. a) to meet the individual needs of ___ children
   b) ___ suffering from serious physical disabilities
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