Практикум по лексикологии английского языка. Часть 1. Словообразование. Маковецкая Н.А - 34 стр.

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Exercise 2. Translate these sentences. Analyse semantic relations between the
converted nouns in bold type and the verbs.

1. “Lucy is a marvel in her way” , Gwen said (M.Spark). 2. I would wait for the
trump as it hit the house at the end of its run (W.Morris). 3… .to repulse this
proffer of herself was to inflict the most grievous hurt a woman could receive
(J.London). 4. It’s only a guess, but here’s what I think (R.Dahl). 5. “You’ve got to
make absolutely sure I’m well out of the way myself before you put the cats in.” –
“That’s a promise,” she said (Ibid.). 6. He has a good grip of the situation, that’s
why his grip on the audience is so strong (Ibid.). 7. Turgis came nearer, and
lowered his voice when he spoke. “D’you think, Mr. Smeeth, there’ll be any
chance of a rise, now I’m getting all this extra work? Ought to be, oughtn’t there? I
mean, I’m not getting a lot really, am I?” (J.Priestley) 8. Now the children and I
were just going up to the house for a bit, and we want you to come along with us
(B.MacDolald). 9. So he asked us to give her a taste of that for a year (E.Bowen).
10. The line of least resistance, backed up by cloudy visions of gain, had brought
him here, rather against both his better judgement and his conscience (K.Amis).
11. He did not at all like the look or feel of the bed; the springs were broken in the
centre and it creaked ominously when he lay down to try it (E.Waugh). 12. I don’t
keep up this house to be a hostel of bores to come and gossip in (Ibid.). 13. This
was Helena’s last try (M.Spark). 14. That single name gave me a stab of grief,
sickening as a present grief – whereas the name of Roy Calvert himself I had heard
without emotion (C.P.Snow). 15. After he retired, it seemed for a time that the old
sting had left him (Bid). 16. … I realized it might be possible to… run for money,
trot for wages on piece work at a bob a puff rising bit by bit to a guinea a gasp and
retiring through old age at thirty-two (A.Sillitoe). 17. … I’m doing it in a place just
where the drive turns in to the sportsfield – where they can see what I’m doing…
(Bid). 18. She was wearing a tweed coat trimmed with fur, smart travelling clothes,
foreign in make and cut (A.Christie). 19. With the weather thickening and the
light fading early the crowd had thinned slightly either end of the ground. The
better part of it was now stuffed in the main stand and in the covered stand
opposite (D.Storey).

Exercise 3. Translate these sentences. Analyse semantic relations between the
converted verbs in italics and the adjectives.

1. Good wine plus good weather equaled a good crop (E.Adler). 2. It was ten
thirty before the cafe quieted down and she finally got a break and could sit with
him (Ibid.). 3. Then he sobered (J.Baldwin). 4. Pictures of me… staring from the
head of a yellowed news clipping in plastic were popped and hung throughout the
living-room… (J.Updike) 5. … William flushed with his responsibilities, his wife
turning to brown her back in the sun (V.Pritchett). 6. Once she narrowed her eyes
to see only him (R.Price). 7. Melanie’s chores are to cook, tidy up, make the beds,
and hand wash Floyd’s dress shirts in case he dirties any (W.Morris). 8. The