Методические рекомендации к семинарам по теоретической грамматике английского языка. Тивьяева И.В. - 57 стр.

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11. It is a charming faculty, but one often abused by those who are conscious of
its possession: for there is something ghoulish in the avidity with which they
will pounce upon the misfortune of their friends so that they may exercise
their dexterity. (W. S. Maugham)
12. Mrs. Cavendish, who had married John's father when he was a widower with
two sons, had been a handsome woman of middle-age as I remembered her.
(A. Christie)
13. The main function of the balcony was critical, it occasionally showed
grudging admiration, but never approval, for it is well known among ladies
over thirty-five that when the younger set dance in the summer-time it is
with the very worst intentions in the world, and if they are not bombarded
with stony eyes stray couples will dance weird barbaric interludes in the
corners, and the more popular, more dangerous, girls will sometimes be
kissed in the parked limousines of unsuspecting dowagers. (F. S. Fitzgerald)
14. That her family were the wealthiest in Eau Claire; that her mother
entertained tremendously, gave little diners for her daughter before all
dances and bought her a car of her own to drive round in, never occurred to
her as factors in her home-town social success. (F. S. Fitzgerald)
15. They had moved into that house two years before, and he knew, and Julia
knew, that they had put it into the hands of an expensive decorator when
they were going on tour, and he had agreed to have it completely ready for
them, at cost price in return for the work they promised him in the theatre,
by the time they came back. (W. S. Maugham)
XVI. Analyze the actual division pattern of the following sentences and the
language means used to mark the theme and the rheme:
1. It is now to George Forsyte that the mind must turn for light on the events of
that fog-engulfed afternoon. (J. Galsworthy)
2. The Hotel Pretty is on this street. There is a little church, too, on the Rue
Amelie. (H. Miller)