Практикум по лексикологии английского языка. Часть 1. Словообразование. Маковецкая Н.А - 21 стр.

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constellation of shining memories (J.Galsworthy). 11. That came of Rosacoke in a
hiss, breaking voice seldom used that always scared her when it came (R.Price).
12. … the public remarks on her victory were embarrassing to all (Ibid.). 13.
There was a jacuzzi at one end of the pool, a foaming whirl-pool of hot water that
gently pummelled your muscles into a state of blissful relaxation (D.Lodge). 14.
That, she realized, was what peculiarly degrading and depressing about the
pictures (D.Lodge). 15. The reading public has enormously increased during the
last thirty years. 16. This absorbing information about my neighbour was
interrupted by Mrs. McKee’s pointing suddenly at Katherine (F.Fitzgerald). 17.
And even Mrs. Dersingham would have been compelled to admit that they were
very charming features (Miss Golspie) (J.Priestley). 18. Long-standing
friendships were broken, new enmities established (D.Lodge). 19. Between calls
she murmured inaudibly to her companion and stroked her platinum-blond hairdo
as of it were an ailing pet (Ibid.). 20. Well, it’s nice work. It’s meaningful. It’s
rewarding (Ibid.). 21. I have been deer-hunting once already and once was
enough for me (R.Price). 22. He thought it [the hat] gave him a rakish daring look,
especially when he wore it at angle… (R.Dahl). 23. Oh, don’t frown like that – you
look like the presiding magistrate! (S.Maugham) 24. It’s one of the most touching
thing I’ve ever read (N.Sparks). 25. Mrs. Cork snatched the letter and read in a
booming voice that made the words ridiculous: “I am longing for the necklace”
(V.Pritchett). 26. This was the kind of leave-taking any ruling society gave to one
of their own (Ibid.).

Exercise 2. Say whether the ing-form in the sentences below is: a) participle I, b)
adjectivized participle, c) adjective, d) part of compound nouns, e) part of set
phrases (cliches).

1. But I had not wandered far before my solitude was interrupted by the only
person, who appeared as a limiting factor in my ultimate happiness; Mr.
Huntington came suddenly upon me (A.Bronté). 2. She had very beautiful eyes
that glowed with burning passion (W.Styron). 3. You will do a good deal to
cultivate the admiration of young girl friends, telling them the most trilling stories
(L.Segal). 4. Crooks scowled, but Lennie’s disarming smile defeated him
(J.Steinbeck). 5. She was still in hollering distance if anybody was to pass that
needed hollering at (R.Price). 6. My grandmother had lit up one of her disgusting
black cigars and was puffing smoke over everything (R.Dahl). 7. He wore a frown
behind his cigar, as though the stunning lighting effects had been “created” by a
stage director whose taste he considered more or less suspicious. (J.D.Salinger). 8.
To my overwhelming surprise the living-room was deserted (F.Fitzgerald). 9. He
has his own business in Washington. There Theresa had a blossoming career in
Boston (N.Sparks). 10. Then he was over the side in a clean-curving dive
(A.Sperry). 11. This Frankie Ferocions comes from over in Brooklyn, where he is
considered a rising citizen in many respects, and by no means a guy to give hot
foots to, especially as Frankie Ferocious has no sense of humour whatever
(R.Dahl). 12. The episode was the turning point in Eshley’s artistic career (“Saki” ).