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Ex. 21 Analyse the following sentences:
1. Nelson Mandela, the former South African president, has asked Charles
Taylor, the President of Liberia, to release four foreign journalists,
including two Britons, charged with espionage.
2. Nine-year-old Laura from Penshaw near Sunderland was abducted, raped
and murdered by Colin Bainbridge, a family friend, in August last year.
3. Would he take her money and let her go?
4. Like lung cancer, rates of chronic obstructive lung disease are still rising
in women and will continue to do so for some years
5. He could tap her imagination with his knuckle and make it ring.
6. Peter Mandelson, the Nothern Ireland Secretary, made no comment after
meeting security advisers to try to form a mediation process.
7. A member of Cambridge University Officer Training Corps was
trampled to death by an elephant in Kenya's Masai Mara game reserve.
8. The distinctiveness, even uniqueness, of the British as a people has long
been taken for granted by foreign observers and native commentators
alike.
9. Anyhow, thanks a lot.
10. Her anxious eyes, her charming lips, her slip of a figure, were as
touching as a childish prayer.
11. She felt herself disjoined from everyone.
12. I'd much rather have a good answer six months hence than a bad one to-
day.
13. Why should she marry Chad?
14. I waited for her to interfere.
The composite sentence
The Compound Sentence
Read §§ 136-143 (pp.421-427)
Ex.22 Analyse the following sentences:
1. Lily and the babies had joined her in Switzerland in the month of July,
and they had spent a summer of fine weather in an Alpine valley.
2. Strether on his side waited, for Sarah likewise had, after all, to perform.
3. 1,000 letters with A level results are due to be sent today, while the
others will be sent in the near future.
4. She grew impatient at last; she grew nervous and scared.
5. Chad and Miss Gostrey had rummaged and purchased and picked up and
exchanged, whereas the mistress of the scene before him had only
received, accepted and been quiet.
6. One of my sisters decided to get married on the sly in Africa, then she
threw a party for all absentees on her return to England.
7. I know it, yet I'm always surprised at it.
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