Практикум по лексикологии английского языка. Часть 1. Словообразование. Маковецкая Н.А - 19 стр.

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(J.Jones). 9. He was personable and quick-minded, which might, with his middle-
class manner and accent, have done him harm; but he was also a diplomat
(J.Fowles). 10. In silence we again drove for an interminable distance until at last,
just after midnight, the carriage pulled up (C.Doyle). 11. The situation might
possibly be manageable (R.Preston). 12. I had a golf trip down there once. Great
courses, a little flat, but playable (N.Sparks). 13. My son – for it was as such that
Richard figured in the mental shorthand of panic – was in my vision as a pitiable
witness, more pitied by me, more clearly pictured in his helpless bright-eyed
onlooking, than his mother my wife, the actual victim, the mangled nude
(J.Updike). 14. The President was repudiating only a few horrible and probably
unusable weapons in the American arsenal to gain possible advantages of security
for the nation and prestige for himself (R.Preston). 15. Business is a very good
thing and a very respectable thing (Ch.Dickens). 16. … there was even an ancestor
discriminable as a Puritan gentleman who served under Cromwell, but afterwards
comformed and managed to come out of all political trouble as a proprietor of a
respectable family estate (G.Eliot). 17. … it was laughable (S.Maugham). 18. Her
face – short, with its round chin, … and sensibly kissable mouth – really it was a
credit (J.Galsworthy). 19. Kitty had never heard Chinese speaking of anything but
decadent, dirty and unspeakable (S.Maugham). 20. I have insisted to him on what
Aristotle has stated with admirable bravity (J.Eliot). 21. He is a personable young
man… I wouldn’t mind getting married him (R.Tremain). 22. The Labour Party
has always been pubbable rather than clubbable: there’s no left wing equivalent to
the Carlton of White’s, and even Liberal club like Brooke’s has ended up largely
conservative (fr. “Customs, Traditions and Festivals of Great Britain” by
T.Khimunina). 23. It was the kind of restaurant where the first thing the waiters did
was to take away the perfectly serviceable place settings already on the table and
substitute more elaborate ones (D.Lodge).

Exercise 2. See instructions in Exercise 1.

1. A Greek friend has come to see him upon business, he said, and, as he could
speak nothing but his own tongue, the services of an interpreter were indispensable
(C.Doyle). 2. “You have shown remarkable restraint – you impatient sex,” I said
(J.Thurber). 3. Your Clinique gift is filled with the newest products, best loved
favourites and “un-buyable” exclusives (ELLE, Oct., 2002). 4. The maddening
thing about it – and it really was maddening to Turgis – was that all these other
ripe and adorable girls (He thought of them as “fine bits” ) were all over the place,
walking in and out of offices (J.Preistley). 5. I see now that this has been a story of
the West, after all – Tom and Gatsby, Daisy and Jordan and I, were all Westerners,
and perhaps we possessed some deficiency in common which made us subtly
unadaptable to Eastern life (F.Fitzgerald). 6. But he kept it, all – same. It was –
“beast” , but better than nothing as –expression of – inexpressible (J.Galsworthy).
7. At the end of that time they will be unemployed and perhaps unemployable
(K.Hewitt). 8. … but then we are not as detectable as a young elk (J.Barnes) 9.
“You’ve sold it” , she said hastily as he leaned closer, his face infinitely kissable