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IV. Read §§ 172-178, 182, 183 (pp.455-462, 465-467)
Ex.26 Analyse the following sentences:
1. Whenever I can, I walk to work except when it’s raining.
2. He pitied M. de Bellegarde's wife, especially since she was a silly,
thirstily-smiling little brunette, with a suggestion of an unregulated heart.
3. She asked hurriedly, in order that he might say more.
4. Scarcely had they spoken, when the first carriage drew up.
5. Although Katharine had just disclaimed any knowledge of literature, she
listened attentively.
6. One room possessed a character of its own because the door was always
shut, and no sound of music or laughter issued from it.
7. The more I see, the better he seems.
8. After three minutes the silence became so intolerable to Rachel that she
was goaded to advance another commonplace about the beauty of the
night.
9. Madame de Vionnet - though she had married straight after school -
couldn't be today an hour less than thirty-eight.
10. As that's really out of the question, I won't expose myself.
11. She's absent so that I may not see her.
12. No sooner had she found the shop she wanted, than she fled back again
in order to be at home when William came.
Revision (The composite sentence)
Ex.27 Analyse the following sentences:
1. Should the meeting last longer than expected, I’ll have to cancel my
dinner engagement.
2. She was not in love with him and therefore might criticise his small
defects as well as his great.
3. She flattered herself she had harvested wisdom and learned a great deal
more of life than this light-minded creature had even suspected.
4. Pansy was fond of the good sisters, who were very fond of her, and there
was therefore for the moment no definite hardship in her lot.
5. A team of international astronomers said on Friday they had discovered a
new planet in a nearby solar system.
6.
He had always had a high standard of courtesy, and it was therefore not
remarkable, under the circumstances, that he should have taken the
trouble to come down from London to call on Mrs. Touchett.
7. It made him feel hot, so that he had to pat his forehead with his
handkerchief; he had never been so uncomfortable.
8. Isabel was irritated by her friend's interference, yet she still tried to think
what truth this declaration could represent.
9. Signor Rodriguez informed them of an old Spaniard who fiddled at
weddings - fiddled so as to make a tortoise waltz.
