Методические рекомендации к семинарам по теоретической грамматике английского языка. Тивьяева И.В. - 19 стр.

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Practice Assignment

I. Analyze the form of verbals in the following sentences:

1. But now, with the main planning completed, the focus of attention was on

the practical matter of getting the money. (A. Hailey)

2. I will therefore briefly set down the circumstances which led to my being

connected with the affair. (A. Christie)

3. There are many questions before the older man admits having known her

before the war. (M. Ondaatje)

4. Crippled for ever, knowing he could never have any children, Clifford came

home to the smoky Midlands to keep the Chatterley name alive while he

could. (D. Lawrence)

5. It meant having to listen to the patient talk in his circuitous way, and the

young soldier was not used to remaining still and silent. (M. Ondaatje)

6. Having no near relations or friends, I was trying to make up my mind what

to do, when I ran across John Cavendish. (A. Christie)

7. The gin was wearing off, leaving a deflated feeling. (G. Orwell)

8. She looks in on the English patient, whose sleeping body is probably miles

away in the desert, being healed by a man who continues to dip his fingers

into the bowl made with the joined soles of his feet, leaning forward,

pressing the dark paste against the burned face. (M. Ondaatje)

9. He started pacing the floor. (E. S. Gardner)

10. Wise white fatherly men shook hands, were acknowledged, and limped

away, having been coaxed out of solitude for this special occasion. (M.

Ondaatje)

II. State the functions of the non-finite forms in the following sentences:

1. O’Donnell considered suggesting that the chairman leave him some time for

surgery, otherwise he might have trouble meeting his own quota. (A. Hailey)