Методические рекомендации к семинарам по теоретической грамматике английского языка. Тивьяева И.В. - 30 стр.

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Practice Assignment

I. State the type of the predicate in the following sentences:

1. Mr. Dursley stopped dead. (J. K. Rowling)

2. It just gave him a stern look. (J. K. Rowling)

3. In 1915 Horace Tarbox was thirteen years old. (F. S. Fitzgerald)

4. The two young people were having tea together. (E. Waugh)

5. Winston’s entrails seemed to grow cold. (G. Orwell)

6. For the first time in her life she had been danced tired. (F. S. Fitzgerald)

7. Priscilla’s gay and gadding existence had come to an abrupt end. (A.

Huxley)

8. They were of no importance. (J. Cheever)

9. But he really must find that word. (A. Huxley)

10. O’Donnell was inclined to be more critical. (A. Hailey)

II. State the means of expressing the subject in the following sentences:

1. None of them noticed a large, tawny owl flutter past the window. (J. K.

Rowling)

2. Everything about her was manly. (A. Huxley)

3. To face the worst and have it over was better. (J. Galsworthy)

4. Was this normal cat behavior? (J. K. Rowling)

5. There was a crisis. (A. Huxley)

6. All subsequent crimes against the Party, all treacheries, acts of sabotage,

heresies, deviations, sprang directly out of his teaching. G. Orwell)

7. To tell it is to live through it all again. (O. Wilde)

8. Hers was not a face to command instant attention or recognition. (A.

Christie)

9. Sleeping was her latest discovery. (K. Mansfield)

10. It’s no good your flying in a temper. (W. S. Maugham)

III. State the type of objects in the following sentences.

1. The war of 1914 gave him his final chance. (W. S. Maugham)

2. The brilliance was not diminished by their injuries. (J. Cheever)

3. Bernice raised the brows in question. (F. S. Fitzgerald)

4. The barn-door and the jaw were separated by a line strait as a nail. (F. S.

Fitzgerald)