There is many a true word spoken in jest mr cokane

Many a true word is spoken in jest is an adage, aphorism or proverb.

James Joyce combined this sentiment with the similar adage of in vino veritas to coin the phrase in risu veritas (in laughter, truth).^[1]

HistoryEdit

A version of this appears in the Prologue to «The Cook’s Tale» (written in 1390) by Geoffrey Chaucer: «Ful ofte in game a sooth I have herd saye!».^[2]

An early print appearance of the most familiar form of this aphorism was in Volume VII of the Roxburghe Ballads, where it appears in the prologue to The Merry Man’s Resolution, or A London Frollick. The ballad purportedly goes back to the 17th century, but the introductory verse was probably written by the editor of the collection Joseph Woodfall Ebsworth:^[3]

He goes a wooing, yet the matter’s so,
He cares not much whether he speeds or no;
‘Cause City Wives and Wenches are so common,
He thinks it hard to find an honest woman.
Be n’t angry with this fellow, I protest
That many a true word hath been spoke in jest.
By degrees he layes a wager, money’s scant,

Until five shillings out; then ends his Rant.

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Exercise 15. Explain why the predicate — verb is used in the singular or in the plural.

1. The family

were

still at table, but they had finished breakfast. (Twain)2. There

was

a crowd of soldiers along the fence in the infield. (Hemingway)3…. the band

was

stopped

, the crowd

were

partially

quieted

, and Horatio Fizkin, Esquire, was permitted to proceed. (Dickens)4. Down by the Embankment… a band of unemployed

were trailing

dismally with money-boxes. (Galsworthy)5. The multitude

have

something else to do than to read hearts and interpret dark sayings. (Ch. Bronte)6. The newly married pair, on their arrival in Harley Street, Cavendish Square, London

were

received

by the chief butler. (Dickens)7. There

was

a dreaminess, a preoccupation, an exaltation, in the maternal look which the girl could not understand. (Hardy)8. The company

are

cool and calm. (Dickens)9. As of old, nineteen hours of labour a day

was

all too little to suit him. (London)10. There

were

still two hours of daylight before them. (Aldington)11. At last they came into a maze of dust, where a quantity of people

were tumbling

over one another… (Dickens)12. Tom’s whole class

were

of a pattern-restless, noisy and troublesome. (Twain)13. A group of men

were standing

guarded by carabinieri. (Hemingway)14. The loving couple

were

no longer happy. (Reade)

Exercise 16. Use the appropriate iorm of the verb.

1. Huckleberry’s hard pantings __ his only reply, (was, were) (Twain)2. There __ many a true word spoken in jest, Mr. Cokane. (is, are) (Shaw)3. Each of us __ afraid of the sound of his name, (was, were) (Bennett)4. On such meetings five minutes __ the time allotted to each speaker, (was, were) (London)5. Neither his father nor his mother __ like other people… (was, were) (Dreiser)6. It was dark and quiet. Neither moon nor stars __ visible. (was, were) (Collins) 7. Plenty of girls __ taken to me like daughters and cried at leaving me… (has, have) (Shaw)8. He and I __ nothing in common, (has, have) (Galsworthy)9. But I wonder no wealthy nobleman or gentleman __ taken a fancy to her: Mr. Rochester, for instance, (has, have) (Ch. Bronte)10. To be the busy wife of a busy man, to be the mother of many children … __, to his thinking, the highest lot of woman, (was, were) (Trollope)11. Her family __ of a delicate constitution, (was, were) (E. Р’РіРѕРїte)12. Hers __ a large family, (was, were) 13. «Well,» says my lady, » __ the police coming?» (is, are) (Collins)14. Nobody __ I am here, (knows, know) (London)15. But after all, who __ the right to cast a stone against one who __ suffered? (has, have; has, have) (Wilde)16. There are men who __ dominion from the nature of their disposition, and who __ so from their youth upwards, without knowing… that any power of dominion belongs to them, (exercises, exercise; does, do) (Trollope)17. Plain United States __ good enough for me. (is, are) (London)18. He half started as he became aware that someone near at hand __ gazing at him. (was, were) ((Aldington)19. Fatting cattle __ from 5 to 10 gallons of water a head daily, (consume, consumes) (Black) 20. She is supposed to have all the misfortunes and all the virtues to which humanity __ subject, (is, are) (Trollope)21. It was a market-day, and the country people __ all assembled with their baskets of poultry, eggs and such things… (was, were) (Thackeray)22. The precept as well as the practice of the Primitive Church __ distinctly against matrimony, (was, were) (Wilde)23….Ratterer and Hegglund…, as well as most of the others, __ satisfied that there was not another place in all Kansas City that was really as good, (was, were) (Dreiser)24. Twelve years __ a long time, (is, are) (Galsworthy)25. There __ a great many ink bottles, (was, were) (Dickens)26. May and I — just friends, (is, are) (Keating) 27. The bread and butter __ for Gwendolen, (is, are) (Wilde)28. I am afraid it is quite clear, Cecily, that neither of us __ engaged to be married to anyone, (is, are) (Wilde)29. It __ they that should honour you. (is, are) (Trollope) 30. Great Expectations by Dickens __ published in I860, (was, were) 31. The family party __ seated round the table in the dark wainscoted parlour… (was, were) (Eliot)32. Everybody __ clever nowadays, (is, are) (Wilde)33. There __ a number of things, Martin, that you don’t understand, (is, are) (Wilde)34. The number of scientific research institutes in our country __ very large. (is, are) 35. Her hair, which __ fine and of medium brown shade, __ brushed smoothly across the top of her head and then curled a little at each side, (was, were; was, were) (Priestley) 36. After some apologies, which __ perhaps too soft and sweet… the great man thus opened the case, (was, were) (Trollope)37. It was as if the regiment __ half in khaki, half in scarlet and bearskins: (was, were) (Galsworthy)38. Youth and Age __ a weekly, and it had published two-thirds of hjs twenty-one-thousand-word serial when it went out of business, (was, were) (London)39. There __ a number of men present, (was, were) (Walpole) 40….the flowers came in such profusion and such quick succession that there __ neither time nor space to arrange them, (was, were) (Heytn)

Exercise 17. Point out the kind of object and say by what it is expressed. Translate into Russian.

Exercise 15. Explain why the predicate — verb is used in the singular or in the plural.

1. The family

were

still at table, but they had finished breakfast. (Twain)2. There

was

a crowd of soldiers along the fence in the infield. (Hemingway)3…. the band

was

stopped

, the crowd

were

partially

quieted

, and Horatio Fizkin, Esquire, was permitted to proceed. (Dickens)4. Down by the Embankment… a band of unemployed

were trailing

dismally with money-boxes. (Galsworthy)5. The multitude

have

something else to do than to read hearts and interpret dark sayings. (Ch. Bronte)6. The newly married pair, on their arrival in Harley Street, Cavendish Square, London

were

received

by the chief butler. (Dickens)7. There

was

a dreaminess, a preoccupation, an exaltation, in the maternal look which the girl could not understand. (Hardy)8. The company

are

cool and calm. (Dickens)9. As of old, nineteen hours of labour a day

was

all too little to suit him. (London)10. There

were

still two hours of daylight before them. (Aldington)11. At last they came into a maze of dust, where a quantity of people

were tumbling

over one another… (Dickens)12. Tom’s whole class

were

of a pattern-restless, noisy and troublesome. (Twain)13. A group of men

were standing

guarded by carabinieri. (Hemingway)14. The loving couple

were

no longer happy. (Reade)

Exercise 16. Use the appropriate iorm of the verb.

1. Huckleberry’s hard pantings __ his only reply, (was, were) (Twain)2. There __ many a true word spoken in jest, Mr. Cokane. (is, are) (Shaw)3. Each of us __ afraid of the sound of his name, (was, were) (Bennett)4. On such meetings five minutes __ the time allotted to each speaker, (was, were) (London)5. Neither his father nor his mother __ like other people… (was, were) (Dreiser)6. It was dark and quiet. Neither moon nor stars __ visible. (was, were) (Collins) 7. Plenty of girls __ taken to me like daughters and cried at leaving me… (has, have) (Shaw)8. He and I __ nothing in common, (has, have) (Galsworthy)9. But I wonder no wealthy nobleman or gentleman __ taken a fancy to her: Mr. Rochester, for instance, (has, have) (Ch. Bronte)10. To be the busy wife of a busy man, to be the mother of many children … __, to his thinking, the highest lot of woman, (was, were) (Trollope)11. Her family __ of a delicate constitution, (was, were) (E. Вгопte)12. Hers __ a large family, (was, were) 13. «Well,» says my lady, » __ the police coming?» (is, are) (Collins)14. Nobody __ I am here, (knows, know) (London)15. But after all, who __ the right to cast a stone against one who __ suffered? (has, have; has, have) (Wilde)16. There are men who __ dominion from the nature of their disposition, and who __ so from their youth upwards, without knowing… that any power of dominion belongs to them, (exercises, exercise; does, do) (Trollope)17. Plain United States __ good enough for me. (is, are) (London)18. He half started as he became aware that someone near at hand __ gazing at him. (was, were) ((Aldington)19. Fatting cattle __ from 5 to 10 gallons of water a head daily, (consume, consumes) (Black) 20. She is supposed to have all the misfortunes and all the virtues to which humanity __ subject, (is, are) (Trollope)21. It was a market-day, and the country people __ all assembled with their baskets of poultry, eggs and such things… (was, were) (Thackeray)22. The precept as well as the practice of the Primitive Church __ distinctly against matrimony, (was, were) (Wilde)23….Ratterer and Hegglund…, as well as most of the others, __ satisfied that there was not another place in all Kansas City that was really as good, (was, were) (Dreiser)24. Twelve years __ a long time, (is, are) (Galsworthy)25. There __ a great many ink bottles, (was, were) (Dickens)26. May and I — just friends, (is, are) (Keating) 27. The bread and butter __ for Gwendolen, (is, are) (Wilde)28. I am afraid it is quite clear, Cecily, that neither of us __ engaged to be married to anyone, (is, are) (Wilde)29. It __ they that should honour you. (is, are) (Trollope) 30. Great Expectations by Dickens __ published in I860, (was, were) 31. The family party __ seated round the table in the dark wainscoted parlour… (was, were) (Eliot)32. Everybody __ clever nowadays, (is, are) (Wilde)33. There __ a number of things, Martin, that you don’t understand, (is, are) (Wilde)34. The number of scientific research institutes in our country __ very large. (is, are) 35. Her hair, which __ fine and of medium brown shade, __ brushed smoothly across the top of her head and then curled a little at each side, (was, were; was, were) (Priestley) 36. After some apologies, which __ perhaps too soft and sweet… the great man thus opened the case, (was, were) (Trollope)37. It was as if the regiment __ half in khaki, half in scarlet and bearskins: (was, were) (Galsworthy)38. Youth and Age __ a weekly, and it had published two-thirds of hjs twenty-one-thousand-word serial when it went out of business, (was, were) (London)39. There __ a number of men present, (was, were) (Walpole) 40….the flowers came in such profusion and such quick succession that there __ neither time nor space to arrange them, (was, were) (Heytn)

Exercise 17. Point out the kind of object and say by what it is expressed. Translate into Russian.

I. What have you got there? (Cronin)2. She pretended not to heart (Mansfield)3. Marcellus found the luggage packed and strapped for the journey. (Douglas)4. I know all about it, my son. (Douglas)5. I have to show Dr. French his. room. (Shaw) 6. I never heard you express that opinion before, sir. (Douglas) 7. Halting, he waited for the Roman to speak first. (Douglas) 8. He was with you at the banquet. (Douglas)9. They don’t want anything from us — not even our respect. (Douglas)10. I beg your pardon for calling you by your name. (Shaw)11. I found myself pitying the Baron. (Mansfield)12. I’ve got it framed up with Gilly to drive him anywhere. (Kahler)13. He smiled upon the young men a smile at once personal and presidential. (Kahler)14. Gallio didn’t know how to talk with Marcellus about it. (Douglas)15. Laura helped her mother with the good-byes. (Mansfield)16. Why did you not want him to come back and see me to-day? (Mansfield)17. Mr. Jinks, not exactly knowing what to do, smiled a dependant’s smile. (Dickens)18. He found it impossible to utter the next word. (Kahler)19. Marcellus issued crisp orders and insisted upon absolute obedience. (Douglas)20. He’s going to live his own life and stop letting his mother boss him around like a baby. (Kahler)21. I will suffer no priest to interfere in my business. (Shaw) 22. Papa will never consent to my being absolutely dependent on you. (Shaw)23. Do you know anything more about this dreadful place? (Douglas)24. She hated Frisco and hated herself for having yielded to his kisses. (Prichard)25. They had been very hard to please. Harry would demand the impossible. (Mansfield)26. His part in the conversation consisted chiefly of yesses and noes. (Kahler)27. Michelangelo could not remember having seen a painting or sculpture of the simplest nature in a Buanarrotti house. (Stone)

Exercise 1. Define the kinds of sentences according to the purpose of the utterance.

Laura was terribly nervous. Tossing the velvet ribbon over her shoulder, she said to a woman standing by, «Is this Mrs. Scott’s house?» and the woman, smiling queerly, said, «It is, my lass.» Oh, to be away from this! She actually said, «Help me God!» as she walked up the tiny path and knocked. To be away from these staring eyes, or to be covered up in anything, one of those women’s shawls even! I’ll just leave the basket and go, she decided. I shan’t even wait for it to be emptied.

Then the door opened. A little woman in black showed in the gloom.

Laura said, «Are you Mrs. Scott?» But to her horror the woman answered, «Walk in, please, miss,» arid she was shut in the passage. «No,» said Laura, «I don’t want to come in. I only want to leave this basket.»

The little woman in the gloomy passage seemed not to hear her. «Step this way, please, miss,» she said in an oily voice, and Laura followed her. (Mansfield)

Exercise 2. Define the type of question.

1. «Who is he?» I said. «And why does he sit always alone, with his back to us too?» (Mansfield)2. «Did she have a chill?» he asked, his eyes upon the floor. (Cronin)3. You have Mr. Eden’s address, haven’t you, Mr. Ends? (London)4. Is literature less human than the architecture and sculpture of Egypt? (London)5. We shall be having some sort of celebration for the bride, shan’t we, Mr. Crawley? (Du Maurier)6. «Can I see the manager?» I said, and added politely, «alone.» (Leacock) 7. When had the carriage been back from taking Miss June to the station? (Galsworthy)8. What is the meaning of that? She is going to live in the house, isn’t she? (Galsworthy)9. He couldn’t understand what Irene found wrong with him: it was not as if he drank. Did he run into debt, or gamble or swear? (Galsworthy)10. Were you talking about the house? I haven’t seen it yet, you know. Shall we all go on Sunday? (Galsworthy)11. Don’t you realize it’s quite against the rules to have him. (Cronin)12. How will you carry the bill into effect? Can you commit a whole country to their own prisons? (Byron)

Exercise 3. Point out two-member sentences (say whether they are complete or elliptical) and one-member sentences.

1. He stared amazed at the calmness of her answer. (Galsworthy)2. We must go to meet the bus. Wouldn’t do to miss it. (Cronin)3. Obedient little trees, fulfilling their duty. (Kahler)4. Lucretius knew very little about what was going on in the world. Lived like a mole in a burrow. Lived on his own fat like a bearin winter. (Douglas)5. He wants to write a play for me. One act. One man. Decides to commit suicide. (Mansfield)6. A beautiful day, quite warm. (Galsworthy)7. «What do you want?» «Bandages, stuff for wounded.» (Heym)8. «How did he look?» «Grey but otherwise much the same.» «And the daughter?» «Pretty.» (Galsworthy)9. And then the silence and the beauty of this camp at night. The stars. The mystic shadow water. The wonder and glory of all this. (Dreiser)10. «I’ll see nobody for half an hour, Macey,» said the boss. «Understand? Nobody at all.» (Mansfield)11. «Mother, a man’s been killed.» «Not in the garden?» interrupted her mother. (Mansfield)12. Garden at the Manor House. A flight of grey stone steps leads up to the house. The garden, an old-fashioned one, full of roses. Time of year, July. Basket chairs, and a table covered with books, are set under a large yewtree. (Wilde)

Exercise 4. Point out the subject and say by what it is expressed. Translate into Russian.

1. At that moment the postman, looking like a German army officer, came in with the mail. (Mansfield)2. The clock struck eight. There was no sign of any of the other guests. (Huxley) 3. Now, there is something peculiarly intimate in sharing an umbrella. (Mansfield)4. Together we walked through the mud and slush. (Mansfield)5. Something impersonal and humble in that action seemed to reassure the Consul. (Cronin)6. The sight of them, so intent and so quick, gave Bertha a curious shiver. (Mansflied) 7. Eight o’clock in the morning. Miss Ada Moss lay in a black iron bedstead, staring up at the ceiling. (Mansfield)8. Still, the good of mankind was worth working for. (Galsworthy)9. Sometimes the past injects itself into the present with a peculiar force. (Heym)10. Forgetting some things is a difficult matter. (Voynich)11. To cross from one end to the other was difficult because of the water. (Heym)12. «A person doesn’t have to be rich to be clean,» Charles said. (Braine) 13. There was an eagerness and excitement in the faces of the men. (Heym)14….and Timothy’s was but one of hundreds of such homes in this City of London… (Galsworthy)15. Let’s get out quick. It’s no good wasting time. (Maugham)16. «Very well,» said Soames, «then we know where we are.» (Galsworthy)17. Now, to go through a stormy night and with wet clothes, and, in addition, to be ill nourished and not to have tasted meat for a week or a month, is about as severe a hardship as a man can undergo. (London)18. She did not know. The «No» was stronger than her craving to be in Frisco’s arms and forget this dreary existence. (Prichard)19. The mining industry might make wealth and power for a few men and women. But the many would always be smashed and battered beneath its giant treads. (Prichard)20. Yes, that did sound rather far-fetched and absurd. (Mansfield)21. This, of course, in her present mood, was so incredibly beautiful… She began to laugh. (Mansfield)22. To live on good terms with people one must share their work and interests. (Prichard)23. These three deemed themselves the queens of the school. (Ch. Bronte)24. Who were these people? What are they? (Galsworthy)25. His was the harsh world of reality. No one could walk around his drawing. (Stone)26. Governing the district of Cremmen wasn’t turning out to be an easy and pleasant job. (Heym) 27. The firing increased in volume. (Heym)28. High and low all made fun of him. (Thackeray)29. For a woman to look at her best is a point of discipline. (James)30. Your coming home has made me as foolish as a young girl of nineteen. (Abrahams)31. And now his heir and nephew, Thomas Esmond, began to bid for his uncle’s favour. (Thackeray)

Exercise 5. State the nature of it. Translate into Russian.

1. It was dusky in the dining-room and quite chilly. (Mansfield) 2 The bell rang. It was lean, pale Eddie Warren in a state of acute distress. (Mansfield)3. Oh! Ohl Oh! It was a little house. It was a little pink house. (Mansfield)4. But in her bosom there was still that bright glowing place. It was almost unbearable. (Mansfield)5. She sat up, but she felt quite dizzy, quite drunk. It must have been the spring. (Mansfield)6. It was marvellous to be made love to like that. (Prichard)7. It is the moon that makes you talk to yourself in that silly way. (Shaw)8. It is very distressing to me, Sir, to give this information. (Dickens) 9. He took the path through the fields: it was pleasanter than the road. (Huxley) 10. If this is liberty, it isn’t going to mean a thing. (Heym)11. It was now almost four-thirty in the afternoon. (Dreiser)12. I took a good room. It was very big and light and looked out on the lake. (Hemingway)

Exercise 6. Point oui the predicate and say to what type it belongs.

1. Presently she grew tired of that and looked across at her sister. (Galsworthy)2. You shall have as many dances as you like. I shan’t dance with anyone except you End Maxim. (Du Maurier)3. Well, d’you feel any better now? (Priestley) 4. Harry was enjoying his dinner. (Mansfield)5. Alice went on, he ought to stop doing nothing and criticising everybody. (Lindsay)6. Everything is being taken down and used against you. (Lindsay)7. The story will only get repeated and exaggerated. (Du Maurier)8. But I’ve got to have a word with him. We got to do something about it. (Pnchard) 9. She became bitter and unapproachable. (Thorne) 10. Her marriage was more or less fixed for the twenty-eighth of the month. They were to sail for India on September the fifth. (Lawrence)11. Leila’s partner gave a little gasping laugh. (Mansfield)12. You are to go straight to your room. You are to say nothing of this to anyone. (De la Roche) 13. He was a country doctor. He died young. (Sanborn) 14. I began to stammer my apologies. He would not listen to me. (Du Maurier). 15. To walk in this way behind him seemed to Annette already a sufficient marvel. (Murdoch)16. A ship — the Vestris — is reported to be arriving at Joppa. (Douglas)17. Led was having a little new sort of weeping fit daily or every other day. (Wescott) 18. Even now he was able to find a thin excuse for that young idiot. (Kahler)19. Do not delay, there is’no time. Teacher Williams lies dead already. (Buck) 20. The grey house had ceased to be a home for family life. (Buck) 21. Kit had. been told to do nothing in particular. (Lindsay) 22. Lately he’d made efforts to bring the matter up with Brian or Colin. (Lindsay)23. The sky shone pale. (Mansfield)24. These days are finished. They are blotted out. I must begin living all over again. (Du Maurier)25. Next day, by noon, I was up and dressed, and sat wrapped in a shawl by the nursery hearth. (Ch. Bronte)26. And all the while he felt the presence of Pat and had to keep on resisting the impulse to turn round. (Lindsay)27. But Abramovici remained quiet. (Heym)28. Morning broke quiet and hushed, subdued as if holding its breath. (Abrahams)29. There were a number of people out this afternoon. And the band sounded louder and gayer. (Mansfield)30. This has proved surprisingly difficult. (Murdoch)

Exercise 7. Say where the predicate is simple and where it is compound (nominal or verbal).

1. Two young girls in red came by. (Mansfield)2. Demetrius came alive and pressed a flock of inquiries. (Douglas)3. And in many ways along lines you’d more or less approve, I am coming to feel the mill apart of myself. (Lindsay)4. He tried to be both firm and friendly. I’ve felt dependent on him. (Lindsay)5. He now felt only a confused ache of memory and a growing desire to be home. (Lindsay)6. No one was there to meet Dick. He felt a twinge of disappointment. (Lindsay) 7. There was a silence but not an uncomfortable one. (Braine) 8. He was vaguely aware of his father standing by kitchen-range with his coat off. (Lindsay)9. The day of our wedding came. He was to cal( for me to choose the furniture. (Mansfield)10. A good reliable husband he’d make. And our Alice is a great one for wanting a place of her own. (Lindsay)11. That made all the difference. The room came alive at once. (Mansfield)12. «She sounds serious,» Albertine insisted. «She keeps talking about it.» (Kahler)13. Not even her own children had seen Ma break down. She’d keep a proud face always. (Mansfield)14. My lady keeps a list of the names in a little red book (Mansfield)15. Charlie kept quiet. (Priestley) 16. Cedric Thompson stood a good three inches above me. (Braine) 17. For a moment I stood aghast, peering after her shadowy figure, and wondering what had taken her. (Weyman) 18. And then they sat silent for a few moments together. (Trollope)19. I sat writing letters on a piece of paper with a pencil. (Haggard) 20. And for some time he lay gasping on a little flock mattress, rather unequally posed between this world and the next. (Dickens)21. After many adventures I and a little girl lay senseless in the Bad Lands. (Haggard) 22. He seemed glad to see me. (Du Maurier)23. At that moment everything in her life seemed to be a source of desperate anxiety. (Murdoch)24. You can smile away till you split your cheek, but you still got to do a day’s work to earn a day’s wages. Apples don’t grow on monkey-trees. (Lindsay)25. She grew to know the two elderly men better than any other member of Eden’s family. (London)26. Yates grew impatient. (Heym)27. She turned once more to Mr. Godfrey. (Collins)28. Gwendolen turned pink and pale during this speech. (Eliot)29. Mr. Bruff remained to dinner, and stayed through the evening. (Collins)30. Michelangelo remained silent. (Stone)31. I gave up the attempt and went upstairs to unpack. (Braine) 32. Michelangelo’s knees went weak. He sat down on his bed. (Stone)33. I looked at the photograph above the mantelpiece and saw my own lace for the first time. (Braine) 34. Giovanni looked crestfallen. (Stone)35. He was beginning to sound really angry. (Murdoch)

Exercise 8. Say where the reflexive pronoun is part of the predicate and where it is an object or a predicative.

1. On my estate, we pride ourselves on other things besides hay. (Erskine) 2. She paused, her eyes never leaving my face. «I shall always blame myself for the accident.» (Du Maurier)3. She raised herself suddenly in the tall chair, and looked straight at him. (Erskine) 4. Dick found himself walking in the direction of his friend Mike’s place. (Lindsay)5. It was a Tuesday. My lady wasn’t quite herself that afternoon. (Mansfield)6. He felt himself j unusually on edge, unable to maintain the impersonally smug tone of Stephenson. (Lindsay)7. Mrs. Danvers showed herself at last. (Du Maurier)

Exercise 9. Point out the predicative and say by what it is expressed.

1. Annette was completely dazed. (Murdoch)2. Their highest concept of right conduct, in his case, was to get a job. (London)3. I’m five foot eleven in my socks. (Braine) 4. Sally, herself, was quite content for a while to enjoy becoming acquainted with her son, washing and feeding him, taking him for walks in thej bush, singing him to sleep. (Prichard)5. Mr. de Morfe was as; generous and hail-fellow-well-met with them as ever. (Prichard) 6. I am cold. And I always was such a one for being warm.» (Mansfield)7. Your resemblance to your mother is very striking. (Murdoch)8. He did not answer. I was aware again of that feeling of discomfort. (Du Maurier)9. I hated myself. My question had been degrading, shameful. (Du Maurier)10. Their interests were’ hers as well as the interests of everybody. (Prichard)11. He’s a good chap. He makes you feel it’s worth while being alive. I (Lindsay)12. Arrived here, his first act was to kneel down on a large stone beside the row of vessels, and to drink a copious draught from one of them. (Lindsay)13. Either course seemed unthinkable, without any connection with himself. (Lindsay)14. The nightmare of my life has come true. We are in danger of our lives. We are white people in a Chinese city. (Buck)15. The best thing is for you to move in with me and let the young lady stay with your mother. (Abrahams)16. But she was herself again, brushing her tears away. (Lindsay)17. The rest of the time was yours. (Douglas)18. How do you feel physically? (Ch. Bronte) 19. Who are you? (Shaw)20. The Irish are a philosophic as well as a practical race. Their first and strongest impulse is to make the best of a bad situation. (Dreiser)

Exercise 10. Use the adjective or adverb.

1. Catherine smiled at me very __ (happy, happily) (Hemingway) 2. I felt very __ myself, (good, well) (Hemingway)3. I felt __ when we started, (terrible, terribly) (Hemingway)4. He sounded __ and __. (brisk, briskly; cheerful, cheerfully) (Priestley) 5. It wil sound __. (strange, strangely)’ (Dickens)6. The hay smelled __ (good, well) (Hemingway)7. I write English __ (bad, badly); (Ch. Bronte)8. I looked at her __ (attentive, attentively) (Ch. Bronte)9. But don’t look __, my little girl. It breaks my heart, (sad, sadly) (Ch. Sront’e) 10. He was looking at me __ and __ (grave, gravely; intent, intently) (Ch. Bronte)11. It [the wine] tasted very __ after the cheese and apple, (good, well) (Hemingway)12. The brandy did not taste __ (good, well) (Hemingway)13. The pistol felt __ on the belt, (heavy, heavily) (Hemingway)14. Silas received the message __. (mute, mutely) (Eliot)15. I thought he looked __ (suspicious, suspiciously) (Hemingway)

Exercise 11. Point out the subjective and the objective predicative and say by what part of speech it is expressed.

1. How do you feel? (Hemingway) 2. The half hour he had with her… left him supremely happy and supremely satisfied with life. (London)3. How to be shown things and make appropriate comments seems to be an art in itself. (Leacock) 4. She had her arms about him, murmuring his name in a pleading question, but he held her away from him. (Wilson)5. From behind the verandah she heard these words: «I don’t, Annette.» Did father know that he called her mother Annette? (Galsworthy)6. He did not grow vexed; though I continued icy and silent. (Ch. Bronte)7. John Ferrier felt a different man now. (Conan Doyle) 8. I would suggest that in the meantime we remain perfectly quiet and keep these matters secret even from Oliver himself. (Dickens)9. He [Harper Steger] was not poor. He had not even been born poor. (Dreiser) 10. Gilt held him immobile for only an instant… (Wilson)11. As a gesture of proud defiance he had named his son Francis Nicholas. (Cronin)

Exercise 12. Translate into English, using a compound nominal predicate.

1. Музыка звучала чудесно. 2. Этот цветок хорошо пахнет. 3. Ваши слова звучат странно. 4. Этот огурец горький на вкус. 5. Бифштекс хорошо пахнет. 6. Эта материя груба на ощупь. 7. Вода в этой местности плоха на вкус. 8. Эта нота звучит резко. 9. Я чувствую себя плохо. 10. Она выглядит хорошо. 11. Она чувствует себя хорошо. 12. Она только кажется хорошей. 13. Пирожное хорошее на вид. 14. Свисток прозвучал пронзительно. 15. Эти розы пахнут упоительно.

Exercise 13. Point out the predicate and say to what type it belongs. Translate into Russian.

1. «It’s no use,» she said quietly. «I am bound to Morris.» (Prichard)2. Her feet were never bound as the Chinese then bound the feet of their girls. (Buck)3. «I don’t want to tell you,» said Galahad. «But you are bound to have it.» (Erskine) 4. «You are not bound to answer that question,» he said to Rachel. (Collins)5. One of them was later sent to board in a missionary school and she was compelled to lose the foot bandages. (Buck)6. When she was sixteen she was a beauty. As the result she was compelled to go to the Emperor’s palace. (Buck) 7. I was compelled to idleness. I had to listen to her long monologues on the Japanese. (Buck) 8. My mother was plainly fading. I was increasingly anxious about her. (Buck)9. We were anxious to cooperate. 10. My father gave it to my mother. It is the only possession I was able to save. (Douglas)

Exercise 14. Point out the subject and the predicate.

1. On her going to his house to thank him, he happened to see her through a window. (Dickens) 2. To describe one’s character is difficult and not necessarily illuminating. (Murdoch)3. The three on the sofa rise and chat with Hawkins. (Shaw)4. Nothing seemed to matter. (London)5. To be wanted is always good. (Stone)6. Seeing you there will open up a new world. (Murdoch)!. Thereafter I read everything on the subject. I came to know many Negroes, men and women. (Buck)8. Elaine, this Jll-advised behaviour of yours is beginning to have results. (Erskine) 9. Presently all, was silent. They must have gone through the service doors into the kitchen quarters. (Du Maurier)10. The citizens of occupied countries were to be subjugated individually. (Wescoit) 11. It was all wrong this situation. It ought not to be happening at all. (Du Maurier)12. My way is not theirs, it is no use trying to run away from them. (Lindsay)13. No one got the better of her, never, never. (Du Maurier)14. Lewisham stopped dead at the corner, staring in blank astonishment after these two figures. (Wells)15…. We and all the people have been waiting patient for many an hour. (Jerome K. Jerome)16, One cannot help admiring the fellow. (Dickens)17. Then he [Tom] gave a low distinct whistle. It was answered from under the bluff. (Twain)18. The girl [Aileen] was really beautiful and much above the average intelligence and force. (Dreiser)19. This religion did give promise of creating a new society. There all men could be equally valuable as human beings. (Buck)20. We must begin here and now to show. Thus we might prove our difference from those white men. (Buck)

Exercise 15. Explain why the predicate — verb is used in the singular or in the plural.

1. The family were still at table, but they had finished breakfast. (Twain)2. There was a crowd of soldiers along the fence in the infield. (Hemingway)3…. the band was stopped, the crowd were partially quieted, and Horatio Fizkin, Esquire, was permitted to proceed. (Dickens)4. Down by the Embankment… a band of unemployed were trailing dismally with money-boxes. (Galsworthy) 5. The multitude have something else to do than to read hearts and interpret dark sayings. (Ch. Bronte) 6. The newly married pair, on their arrival in Harley Street, Cavendish Square, London were received by the chief butler. (Dickens) 7. There was a dreaminess, a preoccupation, an exaltation, in the maternal look which the girl could not understand. (Hardy) 8. The company are cool and calm. (Dickens) 9. As of old, nineteen hours of labour a day was all too little to suit him. (London) 10. There were still two hours of daylight before them. (Aldington)11. At last they came into a maze of dust, where a quantity of people were tumbling over one another… (Dickens)12. Tom’s whole class were of a pattern-restless, noisy and troublesome. (Twain)13. A group of men were standing guarded by carabinieri. (Hemingway) 14. The loving couple were no longer happy. (Reade)

Exercise 16. Use the appropriate iorm of the verb.

1. Huckleberry’s hard pantings __ his only reply, (was, were) (Twain)2. There __ many a true word spoken in jest, Mr. Cokane. (is, are) (Shaw)3. Each of us __ afraid of the sound of his name, (was, were) (Bennett)4. On such meetings five minutes __ the time allotted to each speaker, (was, were) (London)5. Neither his father nor his mother __ like other people… (was, were) (Dreiser)6. It was dark and quiet. Neither moon nor stars __ visible. (was, were) (Collins) 7. Plenty of girls __ taken to me like daughters and cried at leaving me… (has, have) (Shaw)8. He and I __ nothing in common, (has, have) (Galsworthy)9. But I wonder no wealthy nobleman or gentleman __ taken a fancy to her: Mr. Rochester, for instance, (has, have) (Ch. Bronte)10. To be the busy wife of a busy man, to be the mother of many children … __, to his thinking, the highest lot of woman, (was, were) (Trollope)11. Her family __ of a delicate constitution, (was, were) (E. Вгопte)12. Hers __ a large family, (was, were) 13. «Well,» says my lady, » __ the police coming?» (is, are) (Collins)14. Nobody __ I am here, (knows, know) (London)15. But after all, who __ the right to cast a stone against one who __ suffered? (has, have; has, have) (Wilde)16. There are men who __ dominion from the nature of their disposition, and who __ so from their youth upwards, without knowing… that any power of dominion belongs to them, (exercises, exercise; does, do) (Trollope)17. Plain United States __ good enough for me. (is, are) (London)18. He half started as he became aware that someone near at hand __ gazing at him. (was, were) ((Aldington)19. Fatting cattle __ from 5 to 10 gallons of water a head daily, (consume, consumes) (Black) 20. She is supposed to have all the misfortunes and all the virtues to which humanity __ subject, (is, are) (Trollope)21. It was a market-day, and the country people __ all assembled with their baskets of poultry, eggs and such things… (was, were) (Thackeray)22. The precept as well as the practice of the Primitive Church __ distinctly against matrimony, (was, were) (Wilde)23….Ratterer and Hegglund…, as well as most of the others, __ satisfied that there was not another place in all Kansas City that was really as good, (was, were) (Dreiser)24. Twelve years __ a long time, (is, are) (Galsworthy)25. There __ a great many ink bottles, (was, were) (Dickens)26. May and I — just friends, (is, are) (Keating) 27. The bread and butter __ for Gwendolen, (is, are) (Wilde)28. I am afraid it is quite clear, Cecily, that neither of us __ engaged to be married to anyone, (is, are) (Wilde)29. It __ they that should honour you. (is, are) (Trollope) 30. Great Expectations by Dickens __ published in I860, (was, were) 31. The family party __ seated round the table in the dark wainscoted parlour… (was, were) (Eliot)32. Everybody __ clever nowadays, (is, are) (Wilde)33. There __ a number of things, Martin, that you don’t understand, (is, are) (Wilde)34. The number of scientific research institutes in our country __ very large. (is, are) 35. Her hair, which __ fine and of medium brown shade, __ brushed smoothly across the top of her head and then curled a little at each side, (was, were; was, were) (Priestley) 36. After some apologies, which __ perhaps too soft and sweet… the great man thus opened the case, (was, were) (Trollope)37. It was as if the regiment __ half in khaki, half in scarlet and bearskins: (was, were) (Galsworthy) 38. Youth and Age __ a weekly, and it had published two-thirds of hjs twenty-one-thousand-word serial when it went out of business, (was, were) (London)39. There __ a number of men present, (was, were) (Walpole) 40….the flowers came in such profusion and such quick succession that there __ neither time nor space to arrange them, (was, were) (Heytn)

Exercise 17. Point out the kind of object and say by what it is expressed. Translate into Russian.

I. What have you got there? (Cronin)2. She pretended not to heart (Mansfield)3. Marcellus found the luggage packed and strapped for the journey. (Douglas)4. I know all about it, my son. (Douglas)5. I have to show Dr. French his. room. (Shaw) 6. I never heard you express that opinion before, sir. (Douglas) 7. Halting, he waited for the Roman to speak first. (Douglas) 8. He was with you at the banquet. (Douglas)9. They don’t want anything from us — not even our respect. (Douglas)10. I beg your pardon for calling you by your name. (Shaw)11. I found myself pitying the Baron. (Mansfield)12. I’ve got it framed up with Gilly to drive him anywhere. (Kahler)13. He smiled upon the young men a smile at once personal and presidential. (Kahler)14. Gallio didn’t know how to talk with Marcellus about it. (Douglas)15. Laura helped her mother with the good-byes. (Mansfield)16. Why did you not want him to come back and see me to-day? (Mansfield)17. Mr. Jinks, not exactly knowing what to do, smiled a dependant’s smile. (Dickens)18. He found it impossible to utter the next word. (Kahler)19. Marcellus issued crisp orders and insisted upon absolute obedience. (Douglas)20. He’s going to live his own life and stop letting his mother boss him around like a baby. (Kahler)21. I will suffer no priest to interfere in my business. (Shaw) 22. Papa will never consent to my being absolutely dependent on you. (Shaw)23. Do you know anything more about this dreadful place? (Douglas)24. She hated Frisco and hated herself for having yielded to his kisses. (Prichard)25. They had been very hard to please. Harry would demand the impossible. (Mansfield)26. His part in the conversation consisted chiefly of yesses and noes. (Kahler)27. Michelangelo could not remember having seen a painting or sculpture of the simplest nature in a Buanarrotti house. (Stone)

Exercise 18. Point out the Complex Object and say, by what it is expressed. Translate into Russian.

1. He could see the man and Great Beaver talking together. (London)2. She had lied about the scullery door being open on the night of the disappearance of the bank-notes. (Bennett)3. Each woman thought herself triumphant and the other altogether vanquished. (Buck)4. Thus these two waited with impatience for the three years to be over. (Buck)5. Sammy watched Mr. Cheviot slowly take the receiver from the girl. (Priestley) 6. He hated her to work in the boarding house. (Prichard)7. The Consul felt his legs, give way. (Cronin)8. Mother objected to Aimee being taken away from her game with the boys. (Prichard)9. They had never heard him speak with such urgency, his eyes glowing like amber coals in the fading light. (Stone)

Exercise 19. Translate into English.

1. Он посвящал музыке все свободное время. 2. Объясните мне, пожалуйста, значение новых слов. 3. Мы приписываем теплому течению мягкий климат этого острова. 4. Он открыл нам секрет своего изобретения. 5. Байрон посвятил одну из своих поэм Гете. 6. Вы видели, чтобы кто-нибудь вышел из комнаты? 7. Она объявила нам о своем желании уехать работать на целину. 8. Не приписывайте мне того, чего я никогда не делал. 9. Он посвящает общественной работе все свое свободное время. 10. Мне вчера не починили часы. 11. Я никогда не слышал, чтобы об этом студенте плохо отзывались. 12. Я хочу перешить свое пальто. 13. Войдя з картинную галерею, я увидела мою приятельницу, стоявшую у окна. 14. Она хотела, чтобы ей сшили пальто к Новому году. 15. Спойте нам. 16. Спойте нам еще одну арию из «Евгения Онегина».

Exercise 20. Point out the attribute and say by what it is expressed.

1. The first day’s journey from Gaza to Ascalon was intolerably tedious. (Douglas)2. What do you say to a stroll through the garden, Mr. Cockane? (Shaw)3. It was such a cruel thing to have happened to that gentle, helpless creature. (Prichard)4. He was always the first to enter the dining-room and the last to leave. (Mansfield)5. Sally hated the idea of borrowing and living on credit. (Prichard)6. The two men faced each other silently. (Douglas)7. It was an easy go-as-you-please existence. (Prichard) 8. I am not in the habit of reading other people’s letters. (Shaw) 9. He thrust his hands deep into his overcoat pockets. (Galsworthy) 10. It was not a matter to be discussed even with a guide, philosopher and friend so near and trusted as the Professor. (Kahler) 11. Ethel, the youngest, married a good-for-nothing little waiter. (Mansfield)12 He pointed to a house on a near-by shady knoll. (Douglas)13. It was just one little sheet of glass between her and the great wet world outside. (Mansfield)14. She had a pair of immense bare arms to match, and a quantity of mottled hair ‘arranged in a sort of bow. (Mansfield)15. Dicky heard right enough. A clear, ringing little laugh was his only reply. (Mansfield)16. To think that a man of his abilities would stoop to such a horrible trick as that. (Dreiser)17. There was a blackbird perched on the cherry-tree, sleek and glistening. (Braine) 18. A middle-aged man carrying a sheaf of cards walked into the room. (Braine) 19. Daniel Quilp began to comprehend the possibility of there being somebody at the door. (Dickens)20. Still, Pett’s happiness or unhappiness is quite a life and death question with us. (Dickens)

Exercise 21. Point out the apposition and say whether it is close or loose.

1. Maria, the mother, had not taken off her shawl. (Croniri)2. One of our number, a round-faced, curly-haired little man of about forty, glared at him aggressively. (Braddon) 3. There are plenty of dogs in the town of Oxford. (Jerome K. Jerome)4. You look all right, Uncle Soames. (Galsworthy)5. James, a slow and thorough eater, stopped the process of mastication. (Galsworthy)6. He felt lost, alone there in the room with that pale spirit of a woman. (London)7. But the doctor —a family physician well past middle age — was not impressed. (Carter)8. They, the professors, were right in their literary judgement… (London)9. In consequence neither Oscar nor his sister Martha had had any too much education or decent social experience of any kind. (Dreiser)10. But now he had seen that world, possible and real, with a flower of a woman… (London)

Exercise 22. Point out the kind of adverbial modifier, and state by what it is expressed. Translate into Russian.

1.Gallio slowly nodded his head. (Douglas)2. He’s coming Saturday at one o’clock. (Cronin)3. Lucia stopped them in their tracks with a stern command. (Douglas)4. Sally was sitting on the front seat of the buggy, dumb and unhappy at being ignored. (Prichard)5. I feel my own deficiencies too keenly to presume so far. (Shaw)6. A few miners hung on, hoping the mines would reopen. (Prichard) 7. The first bar of gold raised hopes sky high. (Prichard)8. She had to talk because of her desire to laugh. (Mansfield)9. Gallic pushed back his huge chair and rose to his full height as if preparing to deliver an address. (Douglas)10. He takes a glass and holds it to Essie to be filled. (Shaw)11. Morris was walking too quickly for Sally to keep up with him. (Prichard)12. The poor woman was annoyed with Morris for dumping his wife on her. (Prichard)13. It was quite a long narrative. (Douglas)14. Of course Laura and Jose were far too grown-up to really care about such things. (Mansfield)15. Now and then Gavin would stop to point out silently some rarity. (Cronin)16. And for all her quiet manner, and her quiet smile, she was full of trouble. (Dickens)17. The young schoolteacher’s spirits rose to a decided height. (Dreiser)18. Evil report, with time and chance to help it, travels patiently, and travels far. (Collins)

Exercise 23. Follow the direction for Exercise 22.

1. At the top of the stairs she paused to wave to him. (Douglas)2. Marcellus accepted this information without betraying his amazement. (Douglas)3. Having knocked on his door, she firmly entered Grandpa’s room. (Cronin)4. After waiting for a few minutes, he marched up the steps, closely followed by Demetrius. (Douglas)5. Why do you always look at things with such dreadfully practical eyes? (London)6. David appeared in the open door, one hand clutching a sheaf of bills, under his other arm an account book. (Stone)7. That night I could scarcely sleep for thinking of it. (Cronin)8. She did feel silly holding Moon’s hand like that. (Mansfield)9. Then Gallio cleared his throat, and faced his son with troubled eyes. (Douglas)10. We have some exceptionally fine roses this year. (Douglas)11. Jonathan shook his head slowly, without looking up, his tongue bulging his cheek. (Douglas)12. But it was of no use. Marcellus’ melancholy was too heavy to be lifted. (Douglas)13. She [Sally] never would have been able to make a success of the dining-room but for the kindness and assistance of the men. (Prichard)14. On being informed of the old man’s flight, his fury was unbounded. (Dickens)15. To be a complete artist it is not enough to be a painter, sculptor or architect. (Stone)16. Sally was furious with herself for having fainted. (Prichard)17. With all her faults, she was candor herself. (Hardy)18. The receiving overseer, Roger Kendall, though thin and clerical, was a rather capable man. (Dreiser)

Exercise 24. Point out all the adverbial modifiers expressed by Predicative Constructions. Translate into Russian.

1. Marcellus strode heavily to and fro before the entrance, his impatience mounting. (Douglas)2. On her applying to them, reassured by this resemblance, for a direction to Miss Dorrit, they made way for her to enter a dark hall. (Dickens)3. Well, women’s faces have had too much power over me already for me not to fear them. (Hardy)4. I almost doubt whether I ought not to go a step farther, and burn the letter at once, for fear of its falling into wrong hands. (Collins)5. Michelangelo went to Jacopo’s side, ran his hand carressingly over the sacrophagus, his fingers tracing out in its low relief the funeral procession of fighting men and horses. (Stone)6. Michelangelo went into the yard and sat in the baking sun with his chin resting on his chest. (Stone) 7. That over, she sat back with a sigh and softly rubbed her knees. (Mansfield)8. He opened the door for the Senator to precede him. (Douglas)9. They were returning to Fogarty’s; their hands full of flowers. (Prichard)10. She pressed his hand mutely, her eyes dim. (London)11. His being an older man, that made it all right. (Warren)12. On the second of these days Granacci burst into the studio, his usually placid eyes blinking hard. (Stone)13. He stood beside me in silence, his candle in his hand. (Conan Doyle)14. In a room within the house, Cowperwood, his coat and vest off, was listening to Aileen’s account of her troubles. (Dreiser)15. There was room enough for me to sit between them, and no more. (Collins)

Exercise 25. Say what parts of the sentence are introduced by the preposition with or without.

I. Steger was beside himself with fear. (Dreiser)2. Basil, let us have something iced to drink, something with strawberries in it. (Wilde)3. She continued silent, leaning back, her smile now glowing with all its insolence. (Murdoch)4. His friend Francesco Granacci was a nineteen year-old youth, a head taller than himself, with hay-colored hair and alert blue eyes. (Stone)5. Without beauty of feature or elegance of form, she pleased. Without youth and its gay graces, she cheered. (Ch. Bronte)6. The real bourgeois Ruth, with all the bourgeois failings and with the hopeless cramp of the bourgeois psychology in her mind, he had never loved. (London)7. Mr. Godfrey’s fine eyes filled with tears. (Collins) 8. The gravel paths were moist and the grass was wet with dew. (Hemingway)9. There were villas with iron fences and big overgrown gardens and ditches with water flowing and green vegetable gardens with dust on the leaves. (Hemingway)10. My Anna is worth two of her, with all her beauty and talent. (Eliot)11. He was standing now with the waves breaking at his feet. (Lawrence)

Exercise 26. Point out all the independent elements and say by what they are expressed.

1. In the morning, however, there was a comforting excitement in leaving the train. (Kahler)2. May be, after all, there was something in that wild idea of Albertine’s. (Kahler)3. They gave him, in fact, a pleasant feeling of vicarious fatherhood. (Kahler) 4. Nicholas, unfortunately, had passed an unquiet night. (Cronin) 5. Nevertheless, despite this reasoning there remained in the Consul’s breast that strange sense of jealousy. (Cronin)o. now fortunate to have such a reliable couple in the house. Naturally, he counted on the Burtons as an official standby. (Cronin)7. I am a human being, senor, and must take advantage of my opportunities. Frankly, I am accustomed to good wine. (Cronin) 8. He was surprised, evidently, to find Sally so much at home and bustling about like that. (Prichard)9. She was quite unconcerned, as a matter of fact, about being left alone in the camp, (Prichard)10. Perhaps her colonial upbringing had something to do with it. (Prichard)11. It was still too early for his ride, but he did not go back to bed, he wasn’t deeply worried, to be sure, but he knew that he wouldn’t be able to sleep. (Kahter)

Exercise 27. Point out what parts are detached and by what they are expressed.

1. Now their laughter joined together, seized each other and held close, harmoniously, intertwined through each other’s fabric and substance. (Stone)2. Huckleberry Finn was there, with his dead cat. (Twain)3. We reached the station, with only a minute or two to spare. (Collins)4. Blind and almost senseless, like a bird caught in a snare, he still heard the sharp slam of the door. (Cronin)5. As he strode along he was conscious, within himself, of a deep, pervading sense of power. (Cronin)6. With his hands by his sides, he strolled very slowly and inconspicuously, down the border. * (Cronin)7. One summer, during a brief vacation at Knocke, his visit had come to the notice of Harrington Brande. (Cronin)8. We are very poor, senor, with many mouths to feed, and these fish would make a good meal for us. (Cronin)9. Unbelievingly, his eyes fixed, lips tightly compressed, Brande stared at the advancing youth. (Cronin)10. He remembered her brave and hardy, wjth a small-boned eager face, enriched with weather and living. (Sdnborn) 11. The girls had met and were strolling, arm in arm, through the rose arbor. (Douglas)12. Stout, middle-aged, full of energy, clad in a grease-stained dark blue print dress… she bustled backwards and forwards from the kitchen to the dining-room. (Prichard)13. She had become very drab and unattractive, with all the hard work, no doubt. (Prichard)14. But, for all that, they had a very pleasant walk. (Dickens)

Exercise 28. Point out homogeneous parts, define them and say by what they are expressed.

1. He had lived with this block for several months now, studied it in every light, from every angle, in every degree of heat and cold. (Stone)2. He felt discouraged, strangely empty. (Cronin)3. There were tangerines and apples stained with strawberry pink. (Mansfield)4. He came in slowly, hesitated, took up a toothpick from a dish on the top of the piano, and went out again. (Mansfield)5. But I was exceedingly nice, a trifle diffident, appropriately reverential. (Mansfield)6. From the edge of the sea came a ripple and whisper. (Wells)7. They went side by side, hand in hand, silently toward the hedge. (Galsworthy)8. The light oiltside had chilled, and threw a chalky whiteness on the river. (Galsworthy)9. Thousands of sheets must be printed, dried, cut. (Heym)10. Opening the drawer he took from the sachet a handkerchief and the framed photograph of Fleur. (Galsworthy)II. The Captain was mostly concerned about himself, his own comfort, his own safety. (Heym)12. Her mother was speaking in her low, pleasing, slightly metallic voice. (Galsvuorthy) 13. And suddenly she burst into tears of disappointment, shame and overstrain. (Galsworthy)14. She extended a slender hand and smiled pleasantly and naturally. (Wales) 15. Then, without a word of warning, without the shadow of a provocation, he bit that poodle’s near foreleg. (Jerome /C- Jerome) 16. It could be smashed by violence but never forced to fulfil. (Stone)17. Never before had the friar had such power and never had his voice rung out with such a clap of doom. (Stone)

Exercise 29. Analyse the following sentences.

1. His heart felt swollen in his chest. (Stone) 2. The girl [Aileen] was really, beautiful and much above the average intelligence and force. (Dreiser)3. Footsore and downhearted, they were making their way back to Coolgardie doing a bit of prospecting. (Prichard)4. The idleness made him cranky. (Stone)5. The prior’s hearty, warm-cheeked face went dark at the mention of Savanarola’s name. (Stone)6. Ah, to be a soldier, Michelangelo, to fight in mortal combat, to kill the enemy with sword and lance, conquer new lands and all their women? That is the life! (Stone) 7. He said it in a very mature, man-to-man tone. (Warren)8. Evidently George and the sheriff were getting along in a very friendly way, for all the former’s bitter troubles and lack of means. (Dreiser)9. Together they sketched the apostles, the one bald-headed, the other supporting the weeping John. (Stone)10. With all his brightness and cleverness and general good qualities, Mr. Franklin’s chance of topping Mr. Godfrey in our young lady’s estimation was, in my opinion, a very poor chance indeed. (Collins)11. Suddenly all the differences between life and death became apparent. (Stone)12. Michelangelo began to see pictures in his mind: of struggles between men, of the rescue of women, of the wounded, the dying. (Stone)13. I am a thousand times cleverer and more charming than that creature, for all her wealth. (Thackeray)14.1’mnot accustomed to having more than one drink. (Tennessee Williams)15. Bertoldo, I feel the need to be solitary, to work beyond all eyes, even yours. (Stone)16. Miss Fulton laid her moonbeam fingers on his cheeks and smiled her sleepy smile. (Mansfield)17. Sally found it difficult to visit anybody herself. (Prichard)18. And surely, no man in his senses wants the disastrous consequences of this rush to go any further. (Prichard)19. To draw one does not need big muscles. (Stone)20. And yet, as though overcome, she flung down on a couch and pressed her hands to her eyes. (Mansfield)21. It was a simple face and could have been handsome, in spite of its saffron colouring, but for the soft, full mouth. (Cronin)22. The Lieutenant, without cap, sword or gloves, and much improved in temper and spirits by his meal, chooses the lady’s side of the room, and waits, much at his ease, for Napoleon to begin. (Shaw)23. With his strange, hawking cry and the jangle of the cans the milk-boy went his rounds. (Mansfield)24. The man and daughter, the mother being dead, brought their letter from a church in West Tennessee and were accepted forthwith into fellowship. (Warren)25. He could not bring himself to face Stanek. (Heym)26. There was a two-storey new wing, with a smart bathroom between each two bedrooms and almost up-to-date fittings.. (Lawrence)27. Her [Aileen’s] eyes gleamed almost pleadingly for all her hauteur, like a spirited collie’s, and her even teeth showed beautifully. (Dreiser)28. In the afternoon, leaning from my window, I saw him pass down the street, walking tremulously and carrying the bag. (Lawrence)29. Amazed and amused, they watched white men scurrying about the ridge, digging and burrowing into the earth like great rats. (Prichard)30. He sat down by the oak tree, in the sun, his fur coat thrown open, his hat roofing with its flat top the pale square of his face. (Galsworthy)31. She was remaining upstairs to give Mary full pleasure of being hostess at her own party. (Murdoch)32. It was pleasant to travel this way, all expenses paid by «the Firm». (Warren)33. One of them even opened the car door for him, with the awkward deference ritually paid in Johntown to the crippled or sick. (Warren)34. She was sitting there very quietly, her legs bent back under her, her yellow skirt evenly spread to make a circle on the green grass, her hands lying supine, slightly curled, and empty on her lap, in a sweet humility, her waist rising very straight and small from the spread circle of the skirt, her back very straight but her neck gently inclining to one side. (Warren)

In the garden restaurant of a hotel at Remagen on the Rhine, on a fine afternoon in August in the eighteen-eighties. Looking down the Rhine towards Bonn, the gate leading from the garden to the riverside is seen on the right. The hotel is on the left. It has a wooden annex with an entrance marked Table d’Hote. A waiter is in attendance.

A couple of English tourists come out of the hotel. The younger, Dr Harry Trench, is about 24, stoutly built, thick in the neck, close-cropped and black in the hair, with undignified medical-student manners, frank, hasty, rather boyish. The other, Mr William de Burgh Cokane, is older probably over 40, possibly 50 an ill-nourished, scanty-haired gentleman, with affected manners; fidgety, touchy, and constitutionally ridiculous in uncompassionate eyes.

COKANE [on the threshold of the hotel, calling peremptorily to the waiter] Two beers for us out here. [The waiter goes for the beer.] Cokane comes into the garden]. We have got the room with the best view in the hotel, Harry, thanks to my tact. We’ll leave in the morning and do Mainz and Frankfurt. There is a very graceful female statue in the private house of a nobleman in Frankfurt. Also a zoo. Next day, Nuremberg! finest collection of instruments of torture in the world.

TRENCH All right. You look out the trains, will you? [He takes out a Continental Bradshaw, and tosses it on one of the tables].

COKANE [baulking himself in the act of sitting down] Pah! the seat is all dusty. These foreigners are deplorably unclean in their habits.

TRENCH [buoyantly] Never mind : It dont matter, old chappie. Buck up, Billy, buck up. Enjoy yourself. [He throws Cokane into the chair, and sits down opposite him, taking out his pipe, and singing noisily]

Pour out the Rhine wine: let it flow

Like a free and bounding river

COKANE [scandalized] In the name of common decency, Harry, will you remember that you are a gentleman and not a coster on Hampstead Heath on Bank Holiday? Would you dream of behaving like this in London?

TRENCH Oh, rot! Ive come abroad to enjoy myself. So would you if youd just passed an examination after four years in the medical school and walking the hospital. [He again bursts into song.]

COKANE [rising] Trench: either you travel as a gentleman, or you travel alone. This is what makes Englishmen unpopular on the Continent. It may not matter before the natives; but the people who came on board the steamer at Bonn are English. I have been uneasy all the
afternoon about what they must think of us. Look at our appearance.

TRENCH Whats wrong with our appearance?

COKANE Negligé, my dear fellow, negligé. On the steamboat a little negligé was quite en regie; but here, in this hotel, some of them are sure to dress for dinner; and
you have nothing but that Norfolk jacket. How are they to know that you are well connected if you do not shew it by your manners?

TRENCH Pooh! the steamboat people were the scum of the earth Americans and all sorts. They may go hang themselves, Billy. I shall not bother about them. [He strikes a match, and proceeds to light his pipe.]

COKANE Do drop calling me Billy in public, Trench. My name is Cokane. I am sure they were persons of consequence: you were struck with the distinguished appearance of the father yourself.

TRENCH [sobered at once] What! those people? [He blows out the match and puts up his pipe.]

COKANE [following up his advantage triumphantly] Here, Harry, here: at this hotel. I recognized the father’s umbrella in the hall.

TRENCH [with a touch of genuine shame] I suppose I ought to have brought a change. But a lot of luggage is such a nuisance; and [rising abruptly] at all events we can go and have a wash. [He turns to go into the hotel, but stops in consternation, seeing some people coming up to the riverside gate]. Oh, I say! Here they are.

A lady and gentleman, followed by a porter with some light parcels, not luggage, but shop purchases, come into the garden. They are apparently father and daughter. The gentleman is 50, tall, well preserved, and of upright carriage. His incisive, domineering utterance and imposing style, with his strong aquiline nose and resolute clean-shaven mouth, give him an air of importance. He wears a light grey frock-coat with silk linings, a white hat, and a field-glass slung in a new leather case. A self-made man, formidable to servants, not easily accessible to anyone. His daughter is a well-dressed, well-fed, good-looking, strong-minded young woman, presentably ladylike, but still her father’s daughter. Nevertheless fresh and attractive, and none the worse for being vital and energetic rather than delicate and refined.

COKANE [quickly taking the arm of Trench, who is staring as if transfixed] Recollect yourself, Harry: presence of mind, presence of mind! [He strolls with him towards the hotel. The waiter comes out with the beer]. Kellner: Ceci-la est notre table. Est-ce que vous comprenez Français?

WAITER Yes, zare. Oil right, zare.

THE GENTLEMAN [to his porter] Place those things on that table. [The porter does not understand]

WAITER [interposing] Zese zhentellmen are using zis table, zare. Vould you mind?

THE GENTLEMAN [severely] You should have told me so before. [To Cokane, with fierce condescension] I regret the mistake, sir.

COKANE Dont mention it, my dear sir: dont mention it. Retain the place, I beg.

THE GENTLEMAN {coldly turning his back on him] Thank you. [To the porter] Place them on that table. [The porter makes no movement until the gentleman points to the parcels and peremptorily raps on another table, nearer the gate].

PORTER Ja wohl, gnad’g’ Herr. [He puts down the parcels].

THE GENTLEMAN [taking out a handful of money] Waiter.

WAITER [awestruck] Yes, zare.

THE GENTLEMAN Tea. For two. Out here.

WAITER Yes, zare. [He goes into the hotel.]

The gentleman selects a small coin from his handful of money, and gives it to the porter, who receives it with a submissive touch to his cap, and goes out, not daring to speak. His daughter sits down and opens a parcel of photographs. The gentleman takes out a Baedeker; places a chair for himself; and then, before sitting down, looks truculently at Cokane,as if waiting for him to take himself off. Cokane, not at all abashed, resumes his place at the other table with an air of modest good breeding, and calls to Trench, who is prowling irresolutely in the background.

COKANE Trench, my dear fellow: your beer is waiting for you. [He drinks.]

TRENCH [glad of the excuse to come back to his chair] Thank you, Cokane. [He also drinks.]

COKANE By the way, Harry, I have often meant to ask you: is Lady Roxdale your mother’s sister or your father’s? [This shot tells immediately. The gentleman is perceptibly interested.]

TRENCH My mother’s, of course. What put that into your head?

COKANE Nothing. I was just thinking hm! She will expect you to marry, Harry: a doctor ought to marry.

TRENCH What has she got to do with it?

COKANE A great deal, dear boy. She looks forward to floating your wife in society in London.

TRENCH What rot!

COKANE Ah, you are young, dear boy: You dont know the importance of these things apparently idle ceremonial trifles, really the springs and wheels of a great aristocratic system. [The waiter comes back with the tea things, which he brings to the gentleman’s table. Cokane rises and addresses the gentleman] My dear sir, excuse my addressing you; but I cannot help feeling that you prefer this table and that we are in your way.

THE GENTLEMAN [grafiously] Thank you. Blanche: This gentleman very kindly offers us his table, if you would prefer it.

BLANCHE Oh, thanks: It makes no difference.

THE GENTLEMAN [to Cokane} We are fellow travellers, I believe, sir.

COKANE Fellow travellers and fellow countrymen. Ah, we rarely feel the charm of our own tongue until it reaches our ears under a foreign sky. You have no doubt noticed that?

THE GENTLEMAN [a little puzzled] Hm! From a romantic point of view, possibly, very possibly. As a matter of fact, the sound of English makes me feel at home; and I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad. It is not precisely what one goes to the expense for. [He looks at Trench] I think this gentleman travelled with us also.

COKANE [acting as master of the ceremonies] My valued friend, Dr Trench. [The gentleman and Trench rise.] Trench, my dear fellow, allow me to introduce you to er? [He looks enquiringly at the gentleman, waiting for the name.]

THE GENTLEMAN Permit me to shake your hand, Dr Trench. My name is Sartorius; and I have the honor of being known to Lady Roxdale, who is, I believe, a near relative of yours. Blanche, [She looks up.] Dr Trench. [They bow.]

TRENCH Perhaps I should introduce my friend Cokane to you, Mr Sartorius: Mr William de Burgh Cokane. [Cokane makes an elaborate bow. Sartorius accepts it with dignity. The waiter meanwhile returns with teapot, hot water, etc.]

SARTORIUS [to the waiter] Two more cups.

WAITER Yes, zare. [He goes into the hotel.]

BLANCHE Do you take sugar, Mr Cokane?

COKANE Thank you. [To Sartorius] This is really too kind. Harry: Bring your chair round.

SARTORIUS You are very welcome. [Trench brings his chair to the tea table; and they all sit round it. The waiter returns with two more cups.]

WAITER Table d’hote at ‘alf past zix, zhentellmenn. Ahnyzing else now, zare?

SARTORIUS No. You can go. [The waiter goes.]

COKANE [very agreeably] Do you contemplate a long stay here, Miss Sartorius?

BLANCHE We were thinking of going on to Rolandseck. Is it as nice as this place?

COKANE Harry: The Baedeker. Thank you. [He consults the index, and looks out Rolandseck.]

BLANCHE Sugar, Dr Trench?

TRENCH Thanks. [She hands him the cup, and looks meaningly at him for an instant. He looks down hastily, and glances apprehensively at Sartorius, who is preoccupied with a piece of bread and butter].

COKANE Rolandseck appears to be an extremely interesting place. [Rereads] «It is one of the most beautiful and frequented spots on the river, and is surrounded with numerous villas and pleasant gardens, chiefly belonging to wealthy merchants from the Lower Rhine, and extending along the wooded slopes at the back of the village.»

BLANCHE That sounds civilized and comfortable. I vote we go there.

SARTORIUS Quite like our place at Surbiton, my dear.

BLANCHE Quite.

COKANE You have a place down the river? Ah, I envy you.

SARTORIUS No: I have merely taken a furnished villa at Surbiton for the summer. I live in Bedford Square. I am a vestryman and must reside in the parish.

BLANCHE Another cup, Mr Cokane?

COKANE Thank you, no. [To Sartorius] I presume you have been round this little place. Not much to see here, except the Apollinaris Church.

SARTORIUS [scandalized] The what!

COKANE The Apollinaris Church.

SARTORIUS A strange name to give a church. Very continental, I must say.

COKANE Ah, yes, yes, yes. That is where our neighbors fall short sometimes, Mr Sartorius: Taste, taste is what they occasionally fail in. But in this instance they are not to blame. The water is called after the church, not the church after the water.

SARTORIUS [as if this were an extenuating circumstance but not a complete excuse] I am glad to hear it. Is the church a celebrated one?

COKANE Baedeker stars it.

SARTORIUS [respectfully] Oh, in that case I should like to see it.

COKANE [reading] «…erected in 1839 by Zwirner, the late eminent architect of the cathedral of Cologne, at the expense of Count Fiirstenberg-Stammheim.»

SARTORIUS [much impressed] We must certainly see that, Mr Cokane. I had no idea that the architect of Cologne cathedral lived so recently.

BLANCHE Dont let us bother about any more churches, papa. Theyre all the same; and I’m tired to death of them.

SARTORIUS Well, my dear, if you think it sensible to take a long and expensive journey to see what there is to be seen, and then go away without seeing it

BLANCHE Not this afternoon, papa, please.

SARTORIUS My dear: I should like you to see everything. It is part of your education

BLANCHE [rising, with a petulant sigh] Oh, my education! Very well, very well: I suppose I must go through with it. Are you coming, Dr Trench? [with a grimace] I’m sure the Johannis Church will be a treat for you.

COKANE [laughing softly and archly] Ah, excellent, excellent: Very good, indeed. [Seriously] But do you know, Miss Sartorius, there actually are Johannis churches here several of them as well as Apollinaris ones?

SARTORIUS [Sententiously, taking out his field-glass and leading the way to the gate] There is many a true word spoken in jest, Mr Cokane.

COKANE [accompanying him] How true! How true! [They go out together, ruminating profoundly. Blanche makes no movement to follow them. She watches until they are safely out of sight, and then posts herself before Trench, looking at him with an enigmatic smile, which he returns with a half sheepish, half conceited grin.]

BLANCHE Well! So you have done it at last.

TRENCH Yes. At least Cokane’s done it. I told you he’d manage it. He’s rather an ass in some ways; but he has tremendous tact.

BLANCHE [contemptuously] Tact! Thats not tact : thats inquisitiveness. Inquisitive people always have a lot of practice in getting into conversation with strangers. Why didnt you speak to my father yourself on the boat? You were ready enough to speak to me without any introduction.

TRENCH I didnt particularly want to talk to him.

BLANCHE It didnt occur to you, I suppose, that you put me in a false position by that.

TRENCH Oh, I dont see that, exactly. Besides, your father isnt an easy man to tackle. Of course, now that I know him, I see that he’s pleasant enough; but then youve got to know him first, havnt you?

BLANCHE [impatiently] Everybody is afraid of papa: I’m sure I dont know why. [She sits down again, pouting a little.]

TRENCH [tenderly] However, it’s all right now: Isnt it? [He sits near her.]

BLANCHE [sharply] I dont know. How should I? You had no right to speak to me that day on board the steamer. You thought I was alone, because [with false pathos] I had no mother with me.

TRENCH [protesting] Oh, I say! Come! It was you who spoke to me. Of course I was only too glad of the chance; but on my word I shouldnt have moved an eyelid if you hadnt given me a lead.

BLANCHE I only asked you the name of a castle. There was nothing unladylike in that.

TRENCH Of course not. Why shouldnt you? [With renewed tenderness] But it’s all right now: Isnt it?

BLANCHE [softly, looking subtly at him] Is it?

TRENCH [suddenly becoming shy] I, I suppose so. By the way, what about the Apollinaris Church? Your father expects us to follow him, doesnt he?

BLANCHE [with suppressed resentment] Dont let me detain you if you wish to see it.

TRENCH Wont you come?

BLANCHE No. [She turns her face away moodily.]

TRENCH [alarmed] I say: youre not offended, are you? [She looks round at him for a moment with a reproachful film on her eyes.] Blanche— [She bristles instantly; overdoes it and frightens him.] I beg your pardon for calling you by your name; but I er— [She corrects her mistake by softening her expression eloquently. He responds with a gush] You dont mind, do you? I felt sure you wouldnt, somehow. Well, look here. I have no idea how you will
receive this: It must seem horribly abrupt; but the circumstances do not admit of— The fact is, my utter want of tact— [he founders more and more, unable to see that she can hardly contain her eagerness.] Now, if it were Cokane—

BLANCHE [impatiently] Cokane!

TRENCH [terrified] No, not Cokane. Though I assure you I was only going to say about him that—

BLANCHE That he will be back presently with papa.

TRENCH [stupidly] Yes: They cant be very long now. I hope I’m not detaining you.

BLANCHE I thought you were detaining me because you had something to say.

TRENCH [totally unnerved] Not at all. At least, nothing very particular. That is, I’m afraid you wouldnt think it very particular. Another time, perhaps—

BLANCHE What other time? How do you know that we shall ever meet again? [Desperately] Tell me now. I want you to tell me now.

TRENCH Well, I was thinking that if we could make up our minds to or not to at least er-[His nervousness deprives him of the power of speech]

BLANCHE [giving him up as hopeless] I dont think theres much danger of your making up your mind, Dr Trench.

TRENCH [stammering] I only thought— [He stops and looks at her piteously. She hesitates a moment, and then puts her hands into his with calculated impulsiveness. He catches her in his arms with a cry of relief.] Dear Blanche! I thought I should never have said it. I believe I should have stood stuttering here all day if you hadnt helped me out with it.

BLANCHE [trying to get away from him] I didnt help you out with it.

TRENCH [holding her] I dont mean that you did it on purpose, of course. Only instinctively.

BLANCHE [still a little anxious] But you havnt said anything.

TRENCH What more can I say than this? [He kisses her again.]

BLANCHE [overcome by the kiss, but holding on to her point] But Harry-

TRENCH [delighted at the name] Yes?

BLANCHE When shall we be married?

TRENCH At the first church we meet: the Apollinaris Church, if you like.

BLANCHE No, but seriously. This is serious, Harry: you musnt joke about it.

TRENCH [looking suddenly round to the riverside gate and quickly releasing her] Sh! Here they are back again.

BLANCHE Oh, d— [The word is drowned by the clangor of a bell from within the hotel. The waiter appears on the steps, ringing it. Cokane and Sartorius are seen returning by the river gate]

WAITER Table d’h6te in dwendy minutes, ladies and zhentellmenn. [He goes into the hotel.]

SARTORIUS [gravely] I intended you to accompany us, Blanche.

BLANCHE Yes, papa. We were just about to start.

SARTORIUS We are rather dusty : we must make ourselves presentable at the table d’hote. I think you had better come in with me, my child. Come. [He offers Blanche his arm. The gravity of his manner overawes them all. Blanche silently takes his arm and goes into the hotel with him. Cokane, hardly less momentous than Sartorius himself, contemplates Trench with the severity of a judge].

COKANE [with reprobation] No, my dear boy. No, no. Never. I blush for you was never so ashamed in my life. You have been taking advantage of that unprotected girl.

TRENCH [hotly] Cokane!

COKANE [inexorable] Her father seems to be a perfect gentleman. I obtained the privilege of his acquaintance: I introduced you: I allowed him to believe that he might leave his daughter in your charge with absolute confidence. And what did I see on our return? what did her father see? Oh, Trench, Trench! No, my dear fellow, no, no. Bad taste, Harry, bad form!

TRENCH Stuff! There was nothing to see.

COKANE Nothing to see! She, a perfect lady, a person of the highest breeding, actually in your arms; and you say there was nothing to see! With a waiter there actually ringing a heavy bell to call attention to his presence. [Lecturing him with redoubled severity] Have you no
principles, Trench? Have you no religious convictions? Have you no acquaintance with the usages of society? You actually kissed-

TRENCH You didnt see me kiss her.

COKANE We not only saw but heard it: The report positively reverberated down the Rhine. Dont condescend to subterfuge, Trench.

TRENCH Nonsense, my dear Billy. You—

COKANE There you go again. Dont use that low abbreviation. How am I to preserve the respect of fellow travellers of position and wealth, if I am to be Billied at every turn? My name is William : William de Burgh Cokane.

TRENCH Oh, bother! There: Dont be offended, old chap. Whats the use of putting your back up at every trifle? It comes natural to me to call you Billy: it suits you, somehow.

COKANE [mortified] You have no delicacy of feeling Trench, no tact. I never mention it to anyone; but nothing, I am afraid, will ever make a true gentleman of you. [Sartorius appears on the threshold of the hotel.] Here is my friend Sartorius, coming, no doubt, to ask you for an explanation of your conduct. I really should not have been surprised to see him bring a horsewhip with him. I shall not intrude on the painful scene.

TRENCH Dont go, confound it. I dont want to meet him alone just now.

COKANE [shaking his head] Delicacy, Harry, delicacy! Good taste! Savoir faire! [He walks away. Trench tries to escape in the opposite direction by strolling off towards the garden entrance.]

SARTORIUS [mesmerically] Dr Trench.

TRENCH [stopping and fuming] Oh, is that you, Mr Sartorius? How did you find the church?

[Sartorius, without a word, points to a seat. Trench, half hypnotized by his own nervousness and the impressiveness of Sartorius, sits down helplessly.]

SARTORIUS {also seating himself] You have been speaking to my daughter, Dr Trench.

TRENCH [with an attempt at ease of manner] Yes: we had a conversation quite a chat, in fact whilst you were at the church with Cokane. How did you get on with Cokane, Mr Sartorius? I always think he has such wonderful tact.

SARTORIUS [ignoring the digression] I have just had a word with my daughter, Dr Trench; and I find her underthe impression that something has passed between you which it is my duty as a father, the father of a motherless girl, to inquire into at once. My daughter, perhaps foolishly, has taken you quite seriously; and—

TRENCH But—

SARTORIUS One moment, if you will be so good. I have been a young man myself younger, perhaps, than you would suppose from my present appearance. I mean, of course, in character. If you were not serious—

TRENCH [ingenuously] But I was perfectly serious. I want to marry your daughter, Mr Sartorius. I hope you dont object.

SARTORIUS [condescending to Trench’s humility from the mere instinct to seize an advantage, and yet deferring to Lady Roxdale’s relative] So far, no. I may say that your proposal seems to be an honorable and straightforward one, and that it is very gratifying to me personally.

TRENCH [agreeably surprised] Then I suppose we may consider the affair as settled. It’s really very good of you.

SARTORIUS Gently, Dr Trench, gently. Such a transaction as this cannot be settled offhand.

TRENCH Not offhand, no. There are settlements and things, of course. But it may be regarded as settled between ourselves, maynt it?

‘SARTORIUS Hm! Have you nothing further to mention?

TRENCH Only that, that- No: I dont know that I have, except that I love—

SARTORIUS [interrupting] Anything about your family, for example? You do not anticipate any objection on their part, do you?

TRENCH Oh, they have nothing to do with it.

SARTORIUS [warmly] Excuse me, sir: They have a great deal to do with it. [Trench is abashed] I am resolved that my daughter shall approach no circle in which she will not be received with the full consideration to which her education and her breeding— [here his self-control slips a little; and he repeats, as if Trench had contradicted him] —I
say, her breeding entitle her.

TRENCH {bewildered] Of course not. But what makes you think my family wont like Blanche? Of course my father was a younger son; and Ive had to take to a profession and all that; so my people wont expect us to entertain them: Theyll know we cant afford it. But theyll
entertain us: They always ask me.

SARTORIUS That wont do for me, sir. Families often think it due to themselves to turn their backs on newcomers whom they may not think quite good enough for them.

TRENCH But I assure you my people arnt a bit snobbish. Blanche is a lady: thatll be good enough for them.

SARTORIUS [moved] I am glad you think so. [He offers his hand. Trench, astonished, takes it] I think so myself. [He presses Trenctis hand gratefully and releases it.] And
now, Dr Trench, since you have acted handsomely, you shall have no cause to complain of me. There shall be no difficulty about money: You shall entertain as much as you please: I will guarantee all that. But I must have a guarantee on my side that she will be received on equal
terms by your family.

TRENCH Guarantee!

SARTORIUS Yes, a reasonable guarantee. I shall expect you to write to your relatives explaining your intention, and adding what you think proper as to my daughter’s fitness for the best society. When you can shew me a few letters from the principal members of your family,
congratulating you in a fairly cordial way, I shall be satisfied. Can I say more?

TRENCH [much puzzled, but grateful] No indeed. You are really very good. Many thanks. Since you wish it, I’ll write to my people. But I assure you youll find them as jolly as possible over it. I’ll make them write by return.

SARTORIUS Thank you. In the meantime, I must ask you not to regard the matter as settled.

TRENCH Oh! Not to regard the- I see. You mean between Blanche and—

SARTORIUS I mean between you and Miss Sartorius. When I interrupted your conversation here some time ago, you and she were evidently regarding it as settled. In case difficulties arise, and the match—you see I call it a match—be broken off, I should not wish Blanche to think that she had allowed a gentleman to, to- [Trench nods sympathetically] Quite so. May I depend on you to keep a fair distance, and so spare me the necessity of having to restrain an intercourse which promises to be very pleasant to us all?

TRENCH Certainly; since you prefer it. [They shake hands on it.]

SARTORIUS [rising] You will write to-day, I think you said?

TRENCH [eagerly] I’ll write now, before I leave here, straight off.

SARTORIUS I will leave you to yourself then. [He hesitates, the conversation having made him self-conscious and embarrassed; then recovers himself with an effort and adds with dignity, as he turns to go] I am pleased to have come to an understanding with you. [He goes into the hotel and Cokane, who has been hanging about inquisitively , emerges from the shrubbery.]

TRENCH [excitedly] Billy, old chap: youre just in time to do me a favour. I want you to draft a letter for me to copy out.

COKANE I came with you on this tour as a friend, Trench: not as a secretary.

TRENCH Well, youll write as a friend. It’s to my Aunt Maria, about Blanche and me. To tell her, you know.

COKANE Tell her about Blanche and you! Tell her about your conduct! Betray you, my friend; and forget that I am writing to a lady? Never!

TRENCH Bosh, Billy: dont pretend you dont understand. We’re engaged engaged, my boy: What do you think of that? I must write by to-night’s post. You are the man to tell me what to say. Come, old chap [coaxing him to sit down at one of the tables]: Here’s a pencil. Have you a bit of oh, here: This’ll do: Write it on the back of the map. [He tears the map out of his Baedeker and spreads it face downwards on the table. Cokane takes the pencil and prepares to write] Thats right. Thanks awfully, old chap! Now fire away. [Anxiously] Be careful how you word it, though, Cokane.

COKANE [putting down the pencil] If you doubt my ability to express myself becomingly to Lady Roxdale—

TRENCH [propitiating him] All right, old fellow, all right: theres not a man alive who could do it half so well as you. I only wanted to explain. You see, Sartorius has got it into his head, somehow, that my people will snub Blanche; and he wont consent unless they send letters and invitations and congratulations and the deuce knows what not. So just put it in such a way that Aunt Maria will write by return saying she is delighted, and asking us—Blanche and me—you know, to stay with her, and so forth. You know what I mean. Just tell her all about
it in a chatty way; and—

COKANE [crushingly] If you will tell me all about it in a chatty way, I daresay I can communicate it to Lady Roxdale with proper delicacy. What is Sartorius?

TRENCH [taken aback] I dont know: I didnt ask. It’s a sort of question you cant very well put to a man at least a man like him. Do you think you could word the letter so as to pass all that over? I really dont like to ask him.

COKANE I can pass it over if you wish. Nothing easier. But if you think Lady Roxdale will pass it over, I differ from you. I may be wrong: No doubt I am. I generally am wrong, I believe; but that is my opinion.

TRENCH [much perplexed] Oh, confound it! What the deuce am I to do? Cant you say he’s a gentleman: That wont commit us to anything. If you dwell on his being well off, and Blanche an only child, Aunt Maria will be satisfied.

COKANE Henry Trench: when will you begin to get a little sense? This is a serious business. Act responsibly, Harry: Act responsibly.

TRENCH Bosh! Dont be moral!

COKANE I am not moral, Trench. At least I am not a moralist: that is the expression I should have used moral, but not a moralist. If you are going to get money with your wife, doesnt it concern your family to know how that money was made? Doesnt it concern you, Harry?
[Trench looks at him helplessly, twisting his fngers nervously. Cokane throws down the pencil and leans back with ostentatious indifference.] Of course it is no business of mine: I only
throw out the suggestion. Sartorius may be a retired burglar for all I know. [Sartorius and Blanche, ready for dinner, come from the hotel.]

TRENCH Sh! Here they come. Get the letter finished before dinner, like a good old chappie : I shall be awfully obliged to you.

COKANE [impatiently] Leave me, leave me: You disturb me. [He waves him off and begins to write.]

TRENCH [humbfy and gratefully] Yes, old chap. Thanks awfully.

[By this time Blanche has left her father and is strolling off towards the riverside. Sartorius comes down the garden, Baedeker in hand, and sits near Cokane, reading. Trench addresses him.] You wont mind my taking Blanche in to dinner, I hope, sir?

SARTORIUS By all means, Dr Trench. Pray do so. [He graciously waves him off to join Blanche. Trench hurries after her through the gate. The light reddens as the Rhenish sunset begins. Cokane, making wry faces in the agonies of composition, is disconcerted to find Sartorius’ eye upon him.]

SARTORIUS I do not disturb you, I hope, Mr Cokane.

COKANE By no means. Our friend Trench has entrusted me with a difficult and delicate task. He has requested me, as a friend of the family, to write to them on a subject that concerns you.

SARTORIUS Indeed, Mr Cokane. Well, the communication could not be in better hands.

COKANE [with an air of modesty] Ah, that is going too far, my dear sir, too far. Still, you see what Trench is. A capital fellow in his way, Mr Sartorius, an excellent
young fellow. But family communications like these require good manners. They require tact; and tact is Trench’s weak point. He has an excellent heart, but no tact—none whatever. Everything depends on the way the matter is put to Lady Roxdale. But as to that, you may rely on me. I understand the sex.

SARTORIUS Well, however she may receive it and I care as little as any man, Mr Cokane, how people may choose to receive me, I trust I may at least have the pleasure of seeing you sometimes at my house when we return to England.

COKANE [overwhelmed] My dear sir! You express yourself in the true spirit of an English gentleman.

SARTORIUS Not at all. You will always be most welcome. But I fear I have disturbed you in the composition of your letter. Pray resume it. I shall leave you to yourself. [He pretends to rise, but checks himself to add:] Unless indeed I can assist you in any way? By clearing up any point on which you are not informed, for instance; or even, if I may so far presume on my years, giving you the benefit of my experience as to the best way of wording
the matter. [Cokane looks a little surprised at this. Sartorius looks hard at him, and continues deliberately and meaningly:] I shall always be happy to help any friend of Dr Trench’s, in any way, to the best of my ability and of my means.

COKANE My dear sir : you are really very good. Trench and I were putting our heads together over the letter just now; and there certainly were one or two points on which
we were a little in the dark. [Scrupulously] But I would not permit Harry to question you. No. I pointed out to him that, as a matter of taste, it would be more delicate to wait until you volunteered the necessary information.

SARTORIUS Hm! May I ask what you have said, so far?

COKANE «My dear Aunt Maria.» That is, Trench’s dear Aunt Maria, my friend Lady Roxdale. You understand that I am only drafting a letter for Trench to copy.

SARTORIUS Quite so. Will you proceed; or would it help you if I were to suggest a word or two?

COKANE [effusively] Your suggestions will be most valuable, my dear sir, most welcome.

‘SARTORIUS I think I should begin in some such way as this: «In travelling with my friend Mr Cokane up the Rhine—»

COKANE [murmuring as he -writes] Invaluable, invaluable. The very thing. «—my friend Mr Cokane up the Rhine—»

SARTORIUS «I have made the acquaintance of» or you may say «picked up,» or «come across,» if you think that would suit your friend’s style better. We must not be too formal.

COKANE » Picked up «! oh no : too dégagé, Mr Sartorius, too dégagé. I should say «had the privilege of becoming acquainted with—»

SARTORIUS [quickly] By no means: Lady Roxdale must judge of that for herself. Let it stand as I said. «I have made the acquaintance of a young lady, the daughter of—» [He hesitates]

COKANE [writing] «—acquaintance of a young lady, the daughter of—» yes?

SARTORIUS «of—you had better say—a gentleman.»

COKANE [surprised] Of course.

SARTORIUS [with sudden passion] It is not of course, sir. [Cokane, startled, looks at him with dawning suspicion. Sartorius recovers himself somewhat shamefacedly]. Hm! «—of
a gentleman of considerable wealth and position.»

COKANE [echoing him with a new note of coldness in his voice as he writes the last words] «—and position—»

‘SARTORIUS «—which, however, he has made entirely for himself.» [Cokane, now fully enlightened, stares at him instead of writing.] Have you written that?

COKANE [expanding into an attitude of patronage and encouragement] Ah, indeed. Quite so, quite so. [He writes] «—entirely for himself.» Just so. Proceed, Mr Sartorius, proceed. Very clearly expressed.

SARTORIUS «The young lady will inherit the bulk of her father’s fortune, and will be liberally treated on her marriage. Her education has been of the most expensive and complete kind obtainable; and her surroundings have been characterized by the strictest refinement. She is in every essential particular—»

COKANE [interrupting] Excuse the remark; but dont you think this is rather too much in the style of a prospectus of the young lady? I throw out the suggestion as a matter of taste.

SARTORIUS [troubled] Perhaps you are right. I am of course not dictating the exact words-

COKANE Of course not: Of course not.

SARTORIUS —but I desire that there may be no wrong impression as to my daughter’s —er— breeding. As to myself—

COKANE Oh, it will be sufficient to mention your profession, or pursuits, or— [He pauses; and they look pretty hard at one another].

SARTORIUS [very deliberately] My income, sir, is derived from the rental of a very extensive real estate in London. Lady Roxdale is one of the head landlords; and Dr Trench holds a mortgage from which, if I mistake not, his entire income is derived. The truth is, Mr Cokane, I am quite well acquainted with Dr Trench’s position and affairs; and I have long desired to know him personally.

COKANE [again obsequious, but still inquisitive] What a remarkable coincidence! In what quarter is the estate situated, did you say?

SARTORIUS In London, sir. Its management occupies as much of my time as is not devoted to the ordinary pursuits of a gentleman. [He rises and takes out his card case]. The rest I leave to your discretion. [He leaves a card on the table]. That is my address at Surbiton. If it should unfortunately happen, Mr Cokane, that this leads to nothing but a disappointment for Blanche, probably she would rather not see you afterwards. But if all turns out as we hope, Dr Trench’s best friends will then be our best friends.

COKANE [rising and confronting Sartorius confidently, pencil and paper in hand] Rely on me, Mr Sartorius. The letter is already finished here [pointing to his brain]. In five
minutes it will be finished there [He points to the paper, nods to emphasize the assertion, and begins to pace up and down the garden, writing, and tapping his forehead from time to time as he goes, with every appearance of severe intellectual exertion.]

SARTORIUS [calling through the gate after a glance at his watch] Blanche.

BLANCHE [replying in the distance] Yes?

SARTORIUS Time, my dear. [He goes into the table d’hote].

BLANCHE [nearer] Coming. [She comes back through the gate, followed by Trench.]

TRENCH [in a half whisper, as Blanche goes towards the table d’hote] Blanche: stop one moment. [She stops.] We must be careful when your father is by. I had to promise him not to regard anything as settled until I hear from my people at home.

BLANCHE [chilled] Oh, I see. Your family may object to me; and then it will be all over between us. They are almost sure to.

TRENCH [anxiously] Dont say that, Blanche: It sounds as if you didnt care. I hope you regard it as settled. You havnt made any promise, you know.

BLANCHE [earnestly] Yes, I have : / promised papa too. But I have broken my promise for your sake. I suppose I am not so conscientious as you. And if the matter is not to be regarded as settled, family or no family, promise or no promise, let us break it off here and now.

TRENCH [intoxicated with affection] Blanche: On my most sacred honor, family or no family, promise or no promise [ The waiter reappears at the table d’hote entrance, ringing his bell loudly.] Damn that noise!

COKANE [as he comes to them, flourishing the letter] Finished, dear boy, finished. Done to a turn, punctually to the second. C’est fini, mon cher garçon, c’est fini. [Sartorius returns].

SARTORIUS. Will you take Blanche in, Dr Trench? [Trench takes Blanche into the table d’hote.] Is the letter finished, Mr Cokane?

COKANE [with an author’s pride, handing his draft to Sartorius] There! [Sartorius reads it, nodding gravely over it with complete approval.]

SARTORIUS [returning the draft] Thank you, Mr Cokane. You have the pen of a ready writer.

COKANE [as they go in together] Not at all, not at all. A little tact, Mr Sartorius; a little knowledge of the world; a little experience of women. [They disappear into the annexe.]

1. Catherine smiled at me very __ (happy, happily) (Hemingway) 2. I felt very __ myself, (good, well) (Hemingway)3. I felt __ when we started, (terrible, terribly) (Hemingway)4. He sounded __ and __. (brisk, briskly; cheerful, cheerfully) (Priestley) 5. It wil sound __. (strange, strangely)’ (Dickens)6. The hay smelled __ (good, well) (Hemingway)7. I write English __ (bad, badly); (Ch. Bronte)8. I looked at her __ (attentive, attentively) (Ch. Bronte)9. But don’t look __, my little girl. It breaks my heart, (sad, sadly) (Ch. Sront’e) 10. He was looking at me __ and __ (grave, gravely; intent, intently) (Ch. Bronte)11. It [the wine] tasted very __ after the cheese and apple, (good, well) (Hemingway)12. The brandy did not taste __ (good, well) (Hemingway)13. The pistol felt __ on the belt, (heavy, heavily) (Hemingway)14. Silas received the message __. (mute, mutely) (Eliot)15. I thought he looked __ (suspicious, suspiciously) (Hemingway)

Exercise 11. Point out the subjective and the objective predicative and say by what part of speech it is expressed.

1. How do you feel? (Hemingway) 2. The half hour he had with her… left him supremely happy and supremely satisfied with life. (London)3. How to be shown things and make appropriate comments seems to be an art in itself. (Leacock) 4. She had her arms about him, murmuring his name in a pleading question, but he held her away from him. (Wilson)5. From behind the verandah she heard these words: «I don’t, Annette.» Did father know that he called her mother Annette? (Galsworthy)6. He did not grow vexed; though I continued icy and silent. (Ch. Bronte)7. John Ferrier felt a different man now. (Conan Doyle) 8. I would suggest that in the meantime we remain perfectly quiet and keep these matters secret even from Oliver himself. (Dickens)9. He [Harper Steger] was not poor. He had not even been born poor. (Dreiser) 10. Gilt held him immobile for only an instant… (Wilson)11. As a gesture of proud defiance he had named his son Francis Nicholas. (Cronin)

Exercise 12. Translate into English, using a compound nominal predicate.

1. Музыка звучала чудесно. 2. Этот цветок хорошо пахнет. 3. Ваши слова звучат странно. 4. Этот огурец горький на вкус. 5. Бифштекс хорошо пахнет. 6. Эта материя груба на ощупь. 7. Вода в этой местности плоха на вкус. 8. Эта нота звучит резко. 9. Я чувствую себя плохо. 10. Она выглядит хорошо. 11. Она чувствует себя хорошо. 12. Она только кажется хорошей. 13. Пирожное хорошее на вид. 14. Свисток прозвучал пронзительно. 15. Эти розы пахнут упоительно.

Exercise 13. Point out the predicate and say to what type it belongs. Translate into Russian.

1. «It’s no use,» she said quietly. «I am bound to Morris.» (Prichard)2. Her feet were never bound as the Chinese then bound the feet of their girls. (Buck)3. «I don’t want to tell you,» said Galahad. «But you are bound to have it.» (Erskine) 4. «You are not bound to answer that question,» he said to Rachel. (Collins)5. One of them was later sent to board in a missionary school and she was compelled to lose the foot bandages. (Buck)6. When she was sixteen she was a beauty. As the result she was compelled to go to the Emperor’s palace. (Buck) 7. I was compelled to idleness. I had to listen to her long monologues on the Japanese. (Buck) 8. My mother was plainly fading. I was increasingly anxious about her. (Buck)9. We were anxious to cooperate. 10. My father gave it to my mother. It is the only possession I was able to save. (Douglas)

Exercise 14. Point out the subject and the predicate.

1. On her going to his house to thank him, he happened to see her through a window. (Dickens) 2. To describe one’s character is difficult and not necessarily illuminating. (Murdoch)3. The three on the sofa rise and chat with Hawkins. (Shaw)4. Nothing seemed to matter. (London)5. To be wanted is always good. (Stone)6. Seeing you there will open up a new world. (Murdoch)!. Thereafter I read everything on the subject. I came to know many Negroes, men and women. (Buck)8. Elaine, this Jll-advised behaviour of yours is beginning to have results. (Erskine) 9. Presently all, was silent. They must have gone through the service doors into the kitchen quarters. (Du Maurier)10. The citizens of occupied countries were to be subjugated individually. (Wescoit) 11. It was all wrong this situation. It ought not to be happening at all. (Du Maurier)12. My way is not theirs, it is no use trying to run away from them. (Lindsay)13. No one got the better of her, never, never. (Du Maurier)14. Lewisham stopped dead at the corner, staring in blank astonishment after these two figures. (Wells)15…. We and all the people have been waiting patient for many an hour. (Jerome K. Jerome)16, One cannot help admiring the fellow. (Dickens)17. Then he [Tom] gave a low distinct whistle. It was answered from under the bluff. (Twain)18. The girl [Aileen] was really beautiful and much above the average intelligence and force. (Dreiser)19. This religion did give promise of creating a new society. There all men could be equally valuable as human beings. (Buck)20. We must begin here and now to show. Thus we might prove our difference from those white men. (Buck)

Exercise 15. Explain why the predicate — verb is used in the singular or in the plural.

1. The family

were

still at table, but they had finished breakfast. (Twain)2. There

was

a crowd of soldiers along the fence in the infield. (Hemingway)3…. the band

was

stopped

, the crowd

were

partially

quieted

, and Horatio Fizkin, Esquire, was permitted to proceed. (Dickens)4. Down by the Embankment… a band of unemployed

were trailing

dismally with money-boxes. (Galsworthy)5. The multitude

have

something else to do than to read hearts and interpret dark sayings. (Ch. Bronte)6. The newly married pair, on their arrival in Harley Street, Cavendish Square, London

were

received

by the chief butler. (Dickens)7. There

was

a dreaminess, a preoccupation, an exaltation, in the maternal look which the girl could not understand. (Hardy)8. The company

are

cool and calm. (Dickens)9. As of old, nineteen hours of labour a day

was

all too little to suit him. (London)10. There

were

still two hours of daylight before them. (Aldington)11. At last they came into a maze of dust, where a quantity of people

were tumbling

over one another… (Dickens)12. Tom’s whole class

were

of a pattern-restless, noisy and troublesome. (Twain)13. A group of men

were standing

guarded by carabinieri. (Hemingway)14. The loving couple

were

no longer happy. (Reade)

Exercise 16. Use the appropriate iorm of the verb.

1. Huckleberry’s hard pantings __ his only reply, (was, were) (Twain)2. There __ many a true word spoken in jest, Mr. Cokane. (is, are) (Shaw)3. Each of us __ afraid of the sound of his name, (was, were) (Bennett)4. On such meetings five minutes __ the time allotted to each speaker, (was, were) (London)5. Neither his father nor his mother __ like other people… (was, were) (Dreiser)6. It was dark and quiet. Neither moon nor stars __ visible. (was, were) (Collins) 7. Plenty of girls __ taken to me like daughters and cried at leaving me… (has, have) (Shaw)8. He and I __ nothing in common, (has, have) (Galsworthy)9. But I wonder no wealthy nobleman or gentleman __ taken a fancy to her: Mr. Rochester, for instance, (has, have) (Ch. Bronte)10. To be the busy wife of a busy man, to be the mother of many children … __, to his thinking, the highest lot of woman, (was, were) (Trollope)11. Her family __ of a delicate constitution, (was, were) (E. Вгопte)12. Hers __ a large family, (was, were) 13. «Well,» says my lady, » __ the police coming?» (is, are) (Collins)14. Nobody __ I am here, (knows, know) (London)15. But after all, who __ the right to cast a stone against one who __ suffered? (has, have; has, have) (Wilde)16. There are men who __ dominion from the nature of their disposition, and who __ so from their youth upwards, without knowing… that any power of dominion belongs to them, (exercises, exercise; does, do) (Trollope)17. Plain United States __ good enough for me. (is, are) (London)18. He half started as he became aware that someone near at hand __ gazing at him. (was, were) ((Aldington)19. Fatting cattle __ from 5 to 10 gallons of water a head daily, (consume, consumes) (Black) 20. She is supposed to have all the misfortunes and all the virtues to which humanity __ subject, (is, are) (Trollope)21. It was a market-day, and the country people __ all assembled with their baskets of poultry, eggs and such things… (was, were) (Thackeray)22. The precept as well as the practice of the Primitive Church __ distinctly against matrimony, (was, were) (Wilde)23….Ratterer and Hegglund…, as well as most of the others, __ satisfied that there was not another place in all Kansas City that was really as good, (was, were) (Dreiser)24. Twelve years __ a long time, (is, are) (Galsworthy)25. There __ a great many ink bottles, (was, were) (Dickens)26. May and I — just friends, (is, are) (Keating) 27. The bread and butter __ for Gwendolen, (is, are) (Wilde)28. I am afraid it is quite clear, Cecily, that neither of us __ engaged to be married to anyone, (is, are) (Wilde)29. It __ they that should honour you. (is, are) (Trollope) 30. Great Expectations by Dickens __ published in I860, (was, were) 31. The family party __ seated round the table in the dark wainscoted parlour… (was, were) (Eliot)32. Everybody __ clever nowadays, (is, are) (Wilde)33. There __ a number of things, Martin, that you don’t understand, (is, are) (Wilde)34. The number of scientific research institutes in our country __ very large. (is, are) 35. Her hair, which __ fine and of medium brown shade, __ brushed smoothly across the top of her head and then curled a little at each side, (was, were; was, were) (Priestley) 36. After some apologies, which __ perhaps too soft and sweet… the great man thus opened the case, (was, were) (Trollope)37. It was as if the regiment __ half in khaki, half in scarlet and bearskins: (was, were) (Galsworthy)38. Youth and Age __ a weekly, and it had published two-thirds of hjs twenty-one-thousand-word serial when it went out of business, (was, were) (London)39. There __ a number of men present, (was, were) (Walpole) 40….the flowers came in such profusion and such quick succession that there __ neither time nor space to arrange them, (was, were) (Heytn)

Exercise 17. Point out the kind of object and say by what it is expressed. Translate into Russian.

I. What have you got there? (Cronin)2. She pretended not to heart (Mansfield)3. Marcellus found the luggage packed and strapped for the journey. (Douglas)4. I know all about it, my son. (Douglas)5. I have to show Dr. French his. room. (Shaw) 6. I never heard you express that opinion before, sir. (Douglas) 7. Halting, he waited for the Roman to speak first. (Douglas) 8. He was with you at the banquet. (Douglas)9. They don’t want anything from us — not even our respect. (Douglas)10. I beg your pardon for calling you by your name. (Shaw)11. I found myself pitying the Baron. (Mansfield)12. I’ve got it framed up with Gilly to drive him anywhere. (Kahler)13. He smiled upon the young men a smile at once personal and presidential. (Kahler)14. Gallio didn’t know how to talk with Marcellus about it. (Douglas)15. Laura helped her mother with the good-byes. (Mansfield)16. Why did you not want him to come back and see me to-day? (Mansfield)17. Mr. Jinks, not exactly knowing what to do, smiled a dependant’s smile. (Dickens)18. He found it impossible to utter the next word. (Kahler)19. Marcellus issued crisp orders and insisted upon absolute obedience. (Douglas)20. He’s going to live his own life and stop letting his mother boss him around like a baby. (Kahler)21. I will suffer no priest to interfere in my business. (Shaw) 22. Papa will never consent to my being absolutely dependent on you. (Shaw)23. Do you know anything more about this dreadful place? (Douglas)24. She hated Frisco and hated herself for having yielded to his kisses. (Prichard)25. They had been very hard to please. Harry would demand the impossible. (Mansfield)26. His part in the conversation consisted chiefly of yesses and noes. (Kahler)27. Michelangelo could not remember having seen a painting or sculpture of the simplest nature in a Buanarrotti house. (Stone)