Синтаксис английского предложения: Учебно-методическое пособие

О.О. Новосельцева СИНТАКСИС АНГЛИЙСКОГО ПРЕДЛОЖЕНИЯ Учебно-методическое пособие к практикуму по синтаксису английского предложения

Санкт-Петербург Издательство РГПУ им. А.И.Герцена 2001

Печатается по решению кафедры второго иностранного языка и РИСа РГПУ им. А.И. Герцена

Составитель: канд. филол. наук О.О. Новосельцева Научный редактор: доктор пед. наук, проф. Н.В. Баграмова Рецензенты: канд. филол. наук, доц. С.И. Блинова (РГПУ), канд. пед наук, доц. В.Я. Колотов (ВИФК)

Учебно-методическое пособие “Синтаксис английского предложения” предназначено для студентов факультетов иностранных языков, изучающих английский язык в качестве основной или второй специальности. Содержит комплекс упражнений, направленных на формирование навыков синтаксического анализа английского предложения.

ISBN 5-8064-0366-1 © О.О. Новосельцева, 2001 © Издательство РГПУ им. А.И. Герцена, 2001

CONTENTS The simple sentence ……………...…………………………………… 5 Negation ……………………………...……………………………….. 6 Parts of the sentence …………………………………………………… 7 Word order …………………………………………………………….. 11 Predicative complexes ………………………………………………… 12 The composite sentence ……………………………………………….. 14 Revision ……………………………………………………………….. 18

ВВЕДЕНИЕ Данное

учебно-методическое

пособие

представляет

собой

сборник упражнений, направленных на формирование навыков синтаксического следования

анализа

упражнений

английского

предложения.

определяется

порядком

Порядок изложения

теоретического материала в учебном пособии Н.А. Кобриной и др. “Грамматика английского языка: Морфология. Синтаксис.” – СПб.: Союз, 1999. Перед выполнением упражнений рекомендуется прочитать соответствующие параграфы “Грамматики”, указанные в начале каждого раздела. Пособие может использоваться как для работы в аудитории, так и для самостоятельной работы над синтаксисом английского языка.

The Simple Sentence Structural classification of sentences Read §§ 1-5 (pp.295-299) 1 Ex.1 Analyse the following sentences: 1. Snow Falling on Cedars won the 1995 PEN/Faulkner Award. 2. Homecoming. 3. In the public gallery every seat had been taken. 4. "Went over." 5. Summer, June summer with the green back on earth. 6. He was dressed in a white shirt buttoned to the throat and gray, neatly pressed trousers. 7. To think of that! 8. Dogs are animals. 9. Some students learn very quickly. 10. I've got a splitting headache. 11. Sandra is a nurse. 12. Fountains.

Communicative types of sentences Read §§ 6-22 (pp.300-311) Ex.2 Analyse the following sentences: 1. How long have you been driving? 2. Let him do what he wants. 3. To go there all alone! 4. The London-Edinburgh express was derailed yesterday night. 5. Wasn't it lovely! 6. Will they ever stop arguing or not? 7. Midnight. 8. Susan's brother? 9. We agreed to meet each other outside the cinema. 10. Off her head! 11. So you went there after all? 12. You are through with it, aren't you?

Non-sentence utterances Read §§ 23 (pp.312) 1. 2. 3. 4. 1

Ex.3 Analyse the following sentences: Oh boy! Ocean. Stop talking! The annual inflation rate is about 5%.

Н.А. Кобрина, Е.А. Корнеева, М.И. Оссовская, К.А. Гузеева. Грамматика английского языка: Морфология. Синтаксис. – СПб.: Союз, 1999

5. Where is the nearest Underground station? 6. What nice shoes! 7. Good heavens! 8. Seems difficult. 9. Living at such a palace! 10. It's dangerous. 11. Careful, please. 12. Red wine or white? Revision Ex.4 Name the structural and communicative type of the following sentences: 1. How are you feeling? 2. Phew! 3. I won't be in. 4. Don't worry. 5. If only I could swim! 6. These drinks are on the house. 7. She is twenty-one, isn't she? 8. Could you give me a hand? 9. Those spring flowers! 10. Mr Postman! 11. Nice of you to come. 12. The trains have been running late all morning.

Negation Read §§ 24-30 (pp.313-317) Ex.5 Analyse the following sentences: 1. Rice doesn’t grow in Britain. 2. We tried two hotels. Neither had any rooms. 3. There’s nobody who can say. 4. We were seldom at home. 5. Nobody ever spoke to me at press conferences. 6. There is nothing else I can do for you. 7. Neither Bess nor Philip came to the party. 8. There was no point in trying to conceal anything. 9. Her voice was barely audible. 10. I don’t think he’ll come. 11. I gave a dinner party for a few close friends. 12. That's fair to neither of us.

Parts of the sentence Read §§ 31-39 (pp.318-323) Ex.6 Name the parts of the following sentences: 1. She has been in Canada since September. 2. Are you definitely going to the party tomorrow? 3. I’ll never do it. 4. Bye, Andy. 5. The oldest church in town was built in the 16th century. 6. Sometimes, however, the parenthesis refers to a secondary part of the sentence. 7. Darling, are you listening to me? 8. On Monday I’m going to Moscow. 9. Her father, Nigel, left home three months ago. 10. Feeling tired, I went to bed early. 11. Tom looked at me sadly. 12. To be frank with you, Harvey, I may have made a mistake. The subject Read §§ 40-45 (pp.324-330) Ex.7 State the type of the subject in the following sentences: 1. I’ve got lovely things to look back on. 2. The death has been announced of one of the world’s best-selling novelists. 3. “Cider with Rosie” is an autobiography. 4. It was quite a long flight. 5. Presley was raised in Memphis. 6. Growing flowers requires care and devotion. 7. Was there a light on? 8. The collapse of the Berlin Wall was one of the seminal events of the twentieth century. 9. It’s not worth waiting any longer. 10. The third may not be taken into account. 11. To get through to her is next to impossible. 12. It’s on the upper shelf. 13. There are not many like you and me. The predicate I. Read §§ 46-53 (pp.331-337) 1. 2. 3. 4.

Ex.8 State the type of the predicate in the following sentences: Ron cheating in the exam! I found out about this story through my mother. We may go to Greece this year. I’m getting used to eat with the chopsticks.

5. We stopped playing tennis at 10 o’clock. 6. Mr. Chad must have gone alone. 7. The girl was smiling happy. 8. She, a beauty! 9. I’ve changed my mind. 10. A faint aroma of coffee attracted his attention. 11. They don’t seem to know you. 12. I’ve never been able to understand her. II. Read §§ 54-59 (pp.338-343) Ex.9 State the type of the following predicates: 1. My father was not a black sheep. 2. He must be mad! 3. His laugh grew almost awkward. 4. The young man had turned quite solemn. 5. He must have remained sufficiently grave about it. 6. Strether was left musing on many things. 7. The words sounded a trifle odd. 8. She remained perfectly good-natured. 9. Strether himself should have kept silent a little. 10. Waymarsh and I sat guzzling. 11. He sat massive. 12. Little Jeanne wasn't, doubtless, to die young. Revision Ex.10 Analyse the sentences, state their structural and communicative type, the type of subject and predicate: 1. It’s nice to be sitting here with you. 2. Let’s not quarrel about trifles. 3. A lot of people will object to the book. 4. Could you do me a favour? 5. Thanks a lot. 6. This trend is likely to continue for another decade. 7. Mrs. Newsome at least has remained exquisite. 8. His house is next door. 9. There were differences of opinion. 10. Me spying! 11. Sunday mornings my mother would bake. 12. Phew! The object Read §§ 67-83 (pp.353-364) Ex.11 State the type of the object: 1. He admitted attempting to smuggle diamonds into the country.

2. Have you ever heard Doris talking about her emotional life before? 3. She came across an old friend. 4. I’m looking for Jane. 5. What did you buy? 6. He gave me 10 seconds to make up my mind. 7. I’ll make it up with him again. 8. She insisted on all her employees coming to the Christmas lunch. 9. I wasn’t expecting you to help. 10. Which number did you dial? 11. Stop waiting for things to happen. 12. Sing a song of sixpence, a pocket full of rye; four and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie. The attribute Read §§ 84-89 (pp.365-373) Ex.12 State the type of the attribute: 1. And I thank all those brilliant people involved in the making of this absolutely fantastic film. 2. I’ve kept birds for some 30 years. 3. Freezing isn’t a bad thing of preserving food. 4. Jack Nicholson made £50 million from Batman alone. 5. They sent me to a fancy private school. 6. Ricardo was the last to go to bed. 7. I had made arrangements for my affairs to be dealt with by one of my children. 8. She’d like to hear it played by professional orchestra. 9. March hares were hopping down the hill. 10. The average age of the women interviewed was only 21.5. 11. We saw an awkward, slow-moving giant of a man. 12. My aunt lived in a small town, called Alson. 13. Her poor sap of a husband had to shut up. 14. Miss Gostrey sounded almost like a hope destroyed. The apposition Read §§ 90-93 (pp.374-376) 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

Ex.13 State the type of the apposition: Mozart’s opera The Marriage of Figaro was considered revolutionary. Mitochondrial diseases are caused by faulty DNA in the cytoplasm, the material surrounding the cell nucleus. U.S. pop superstar Madonna gave birth on Friday to a baby boy. Reproductive cloning - the cloning of individuals - will remain banned in the UK. The report, a hefty three-volume work, included 150 recommendations.

6. The musical West Side Story was based on Shakespeare’s play Romeo and Juliet. 7. We had a single desire, to change the administration’s policies. 8. During a 44,000-mile Commonwealth tour in 1953 the Queen took 12 tonnes of luggage, mainly clothing. 9. Ana, the leader of the group, was reluctant to relinquish any authority. 10. Sir John Morris, the former Attorney-General, has already given his consent for a prosecution for breaching the Official Secrets Act. 11. The report by Professor Liam Donaldson, the Chief Medical Officer, recommends approval for research into therapeutic cloning - a technique with "enormous potential" for treating a wide range of diseases, from Parkinson's to cancer. 12. Dr Gailey, 47, an Ulster-educated historian, was recommended to Prince William's parents by Eric Anderson, then Head Master of Eton. The adverbial modifier Read §§ 94-112 (pp.377-390) Ex.14 State the type of the adverbial modifier in the following sentences: 1. The government decided to send all the children away to the countryside. 2. Where have you been? 3. He sat at the bottom of the stairs. 4. The trouble will clear up in a couple of days. 5. They worked without a break until about eight in the evening. 6. Jobs could be lost in the defence industry due to political changes sweeping Europe. 7. Katharine reappeared, having left her purse on a chair. 8. He took her upstairs so that they wouldn’t be overheard. 9. We had enough cash to buy a one-way ticket. 10. He hadn’t eaten a thing except for one forkful of salad. 11. He is very attractive, though certainly not a lady-killer. 12. I’m quite pleased to receive this award. 13. The coat cost an absolute fortune. 14. After standing still for a minute or two he turned and began to walk towards the gate. Independent Elements of the Sentence Read §§ 113 (pp.391-392)

1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

Ex.15 State the type of the independent element in the following sentences: Ladies and gentlemen, I bid you farewell. Generally speaking there was no resistance to the idea. Unfortunately, the door to the kennel had been left open. The celebration will, alas, conclude all too soon. The book is, in Henry’s opinion, the best book on the subject.

6. God Almighty, Hart, you scared me silly. 7. First, have a heating engineer check the safety of the heating system. 8. I thought you might know somebody. After all, you’re the man with connections. 9. To be sure, many of the rules are no longer appropriate today. 10. Ozone is a byproduct of dry cleaning, for example. 11. Well, all right, hospitals lose money. 12. Quite evidently, it has nothing to do with social background. Homogeneous members of the sentence Ex.16 Analyse the following sentences: 1. A prestigious car, a large house, and membership in an exclusive club are taken as signs of success. 2. I was living just for myself and paying little attention to God. 3. David Guterson is the author of a collection of short stories, The Country Ahead of Us, the Country Behind, and of Family Matters: Why Homeschooling Makes Sense. 4. There’s roadworks and temporary traffic lights between Camblesforth and Carlton. 5. He lifted the phone and dialled her number. 6. The discoverer of America, Christopher Columbus, described the American Indians as “a loving, uncovetous people”. 7. I bumped into professors, horizontal bars, agricultural students, and swinging iron rings. 8. The Prince, 18, gained an A in Geography, a B in History of Art and a C in Biology. 9. The ball sailed over the fence, across the road, and through the Wilsons’ living room window. 10. Sixth-formers are shunning foreign languages and flocking to subjects related to the information technology revolution. 11. Cloned nerve cells could treat Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, stroke, spinal cord injuries and multiple sclerosis. 12. Both the British Medical Association and the Medical Research Council expressed support.

Word order Read §§ 114-122 (pp.393-400) 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

Ex.17 Analyse the following sentences: Buckingham Palace declined to comment on the Queen's clothing. "What A levels did you do?" Were you to question me about the matter, I would deny all knowledge. Revision wasn't funny, nor were exams. It was with Waymarsh he should have shared it.

6. The early nineteenth century in Britain did indeed manage to avoid the revolutionary malaria raging through other European states. 7. Ever the showman, he then shouted: "I've got to say goodbye to my family." 8. I therefore am not bound to be timid and conventional. 9. It was mainly in the evening that Isabel saw him. 10. We did depart. 11. What I wanted to get out of was Wall Street. 12. There was detachment in his zeal and curiosity in his indifference. 13. "So did I!" 14. It's she who hasn't sinned. 15. The Paris evening was in the very taste of the soup, in the goodness the wine, in the pleasant coarse texture of the napkin. These all were things congruous with his confession. Revision (Simple sentence) Ex.18 Analyse the following sentences: 1. Soldiers in full combat gear stood at attention. 2. Don’t be lazy. 3. He has to attack the government from time to time to maintain his status as an opposition figure. 4. How did the atomic bomb alter the course of history in the twentieth century? 5. Impossibly, help came. 6. Yuk! 7. No sound except the cool noise of the water. 8. Suddenly, I was filled with happiness. 9. So you don’t like London very much! 10. Southwards, towards the sea, the land was steep and rocky. 11. Doctor Watson paused. 12. Investigators, armed with complicated flow charts, held a news conference Thursday to give an update of their findings to date.

Predicative Complexes I. Read §§ 123-129 (pp.401-413)

1. 2. 3. 4.

Ex.19 Point out the predicative complex and name its function in the sentence: The debacle over missing examination papers has left thousands of Scottish teenagers waiting for their A-level results. Standards are said to have dropped since the days when the A level was the "gold standard". She saw a modest vehicle approach the door and perceived Lord Warburton sitting, in rather an uncomfortable attitude, in a corner of it. Women are expected to be afraid of their husbands.

5. She thought such descriptions weak. 6. Waymarsh seemed to sit stiffer and to hold his elbows tighter. 7. From Pansy she heard nothing, but that was very simple: her father had told her not to write. 8. When the cotillion came Pansy was found to have engaged herself. 9. The lurking chill of the high-walled court struck him and made him shiver. 10. His wife did not think it necessary to appear. 11. The late Mr. Archer was known to have gambled freely. 12. Isabel was thought insensible to compliments. 13. Prince William was said to be delighted and relieved today after passing three A-levels and gaining a place at the University of St Andrews to study History of Art. II. Read §§ 130-135 (pp.414-420) Ex.20 Point out the predicative complex and name its function in the sentence: 1. It was an immense thing, quite a tremendous thing, for her to have come. 2. Ralph, standing there with his hands in his pockets, followed her with his eyes. 3. She didn’t insist upon his receiving Miss Stackpole. 4. The whole house having been thrown open, the apartments of the rez-dechaussée2 were also accessible. 5. His great defect consisted in the collective reproach of his being too serious. 6. He sat, half an hour later, with his legs under Chad's mahogany, with Mr. Bilham on one side, with a friend of Mr. Bilham's on the other. 7. I found his friend there keeping the place warm for him, Chad himself being in the south. 8. The exchange of such values was not for him to handle. 9. There had already been a question of his taking him to see the great Gloriani. 10. The gentleman was conscious of the difficulties of his function, it being in its way as arduous to converse with the very meek as with the very mighty. 11. With her arms on the balustrade and her attention dropped to the street she allowed Strether to watch her, without her turning round. 12. There was nothing for her to say of him. 13. Waymarsh looked unnaturally big and black in bed, with his covering up to his chin. 14. She reminded him of Major Pendennis breakfasting at his club. 15. Five minutes later they were on their feet for her to take leave. 2

rez-de-chaussée (Fr.) [red4ose] – ground floor

Revision Ex. 21 Analyse the following sentences: 1. Nelson Mandela, the former South African president, has asked Charles Taylor, the President of Liberia, to release four foreign journalists, including two Britons, charged with espionage. 2. Nine-year-old Laura from Penshaw near Sunderland was abducted, raped and murdered by Colin Bainbridge, a family friend, in August last year. 3. Would he take her money and let her go? 4. Like lung cancer, rates of chronic obstructive lung disease are still rising in women and will continue to do so for some years 5. He could tap her imagination with his knuckle and make it ring. 6. Peter Mandelson, the Nothern Ireland Secretary, made no comment after meeting security advisers to try to form a mediation process. 7. A member of Cambridge University Officer Training Corps was trampled to death by an elephant in Kenya's Masai Mara game reserve. 8. The distinctiveness, even uniqueness, of the British as a people has long been taken for granted by foreign observers and native commentators alike. 9. Anyhow, thanks a lot. 10. Her anxious eyes, her charming lips, her slip of a figure, were as touching as a childish prayer. 11. She felt herself disjoined from everyone. 12. I'd much rather have a good answer six months hence than a bad one today. 13. Why should she marry Chad? 14. I waited for her to interfere.

The composite sentence The Compound Sentence Read §§ 136-143 (pp.421-427) 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7.

Ex.22 Analyse the following sentences: Lily and the babies had joined her in Switzerland in the month of July, and they had spent a summer of fine weather in an Alpine valley. Strether on his side waited, for Sarah likewise had, after all, to perform. 1,000 letters with A level results are due to be sent today, while the others will be sent in the near future. She grew impatient at last; she grew nervous and scared. Chad and Miss Gostrey had rummaged and purchased and picked up and exchanged, whereas the mistress of the scene before him had only received, accepted and been quiet. One of my sisters decided to get married on the sly in Africa, then she threw a party for all absentees on her return to England. I know it, yet I'm always surprised at it.

8. The little Ludlows had not yet, even from the American point of view, reached the proper tourist-age; so that Isabel had confined her movements to a narrow circle. 9. She saw the full moon now, she saw the whole man. 10. I am not a silly woman; therefore I'm determined not to get into trouble. 11. Either his passion was a sentimental fiction of Miss Stackpole's, or else he would accept the invitation. 12. The silly women could never understand her wisdom, whereas the clever ones - the really clever ones - always understood her silliness. 13. She lived with a certain magnificence, but you needed to be a member of her circle to perceive it. 14. It belonged to the past, moreover; it had occurred six months before and she had already laid aside the tokens of mourning. The complex sentence I. Read §§ 144-155 (pp.428-438) Ex.23 State the type of the nominal clauses: 1. The way she has already spread her wings is amazing. 2. I returned to tell Phyllis our relationship was over. 3. That's what strikes me as having been so fine. 4. I was laughing at the way you said Miss Datchet. 5. The overwhelming fear of Internet users is that businesses and others will get their personal information without the user's knowledge. 6. That he was prepared to be vague to Waymarsh about the hour of the ship's touching was one of the early signs. 7. He almost wondered if he didn't LOOK demoralised and disreputable. 8. It was Strether's belief that he had been comparatively innocent. 9. To Katharine it seemed as if they had brushed away sixty years or so with the first flick of their damp dusters. 10. What is taking place now in Petrograd is a monstrous calamity! 11. Mary could not feel at all certain that she knew what motives inspired Katharine Hilbery in life. 12. Not the least of this lady's high merits for him was that he could absolutely rest on her word. II. Read §§ 156-162 (pp.439-444) 1. 2. 3. 4.

Ex.24 State the type of the following sentences: I met a man who works in advertising. The proposal had come from Osmond himself, who wrote to his sister that she must be prepared to be very quiet. Whether or no she found in this phrase all the meaning he had put into it I am unable to say. There was something in the great world covertly tigerish, which came to him across the lawn and in the charming air as a waft from the jungle.

5. That was the question Madame de Vionnet had brought with her. 6. In India, for example, disgust has been an ally of the caste system, whose malign influence has remained strong through decades of democracy. 7. His attention was attracted by a gentleman who had come from another part of the room and whose manner was that of a stranger to the gallery. 8. Well, the best thing Strether knew of him was that he had had such a dream. 9. Nothing alters the fact that surprise is paralysing. 10. You're not a person to whom it's easy to tell things you don't want to know. 11. Her husband had achieved his greatest finds at a time when he had not the advantage of her advice. 12. That gentleman led her away with a trick played with a social art of which Strether felt himself no master. III. Read §§ 163-171 (pp.445-455) Ex.25 Analyse the following sentences: 1. The rooms in Palazzo Roccanera were as spacious as they were numerous. 2. As soon as they had admired the little birds in the large cage William and Cassandra lagged behind. 3. I’ll take an umbrella in case it rains. 4. Katharine moved a little away from where they sat and began halfconsciously sorting her flowers. 5. If Alice hadn’t gone to Exeter University, she wouldn’t have met her husband, Andrew. 6. The extraordinary and mournful beauty of her attitude struck Terence in the way things struck him now - as something to be put away in his mind and to be thought about afterwards. 7. Two straight paths led to a charming grassy walk, where the Rev. Wyndham Datchet would pace up and down at the same hour every morning. 8. She was determined not to let her reputation go till she had got her equivalent. 9. The most accessible resort was a seat on the low parapet which edges the grassy space before the front of Saint John Lateran, whence you look across the Campagna at the far-trailing outline of the Alban Mount. 10. A barrier had grown up since they had last spoken. 11. I'm behaving exactly as I said I wouldn't behave. 12. She had never had a keener sense of freedom than when she turned away from the platform at the Euston Station.

IV. Read §§ 172-178, 182, 183 (pp.455-462, 465-467) Ex.26 Analyse the following sentences: 1. Whenever I can, I walk to work except when it’s raining. 2. He pitied M. de Bellegarde's wife, especially since she was a silly, thirstily-smiling little brunette, with a suggestion of an unregulated heart. 3. She asked hurriedly, in order that he might say more. 4. Scarcely had they spoken, when the first carriage drew up. 5. Although Katharine had just disclaimed any knowledge of literature, she listened attentively. 6. One room possessed a character of its own because the door was always shut, and no sound of music or laughter issued from it. 7. The more I see, the better he seems. 8. After three minutes the silence became so intolerable to Rachel that she was goaded to advance another commonplace about the beauty of the night. 9. Madame de Vionnet - though she had married straight after school couldn't be today an hour less than thirty-eight. 10. As that's really out of the question, I won't expose myself. 11. She's absent so that I may not see her. 12. No sooner had she found the shop she wanted, than she fled back again in order to be at home when William came. Revision (The composite sentence) 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9.

Ex.27 Analyse the following sentences: Should the meeting last longer than expected, I’ll have to cancel my dinner engagement. She was not in love with him and therefore might criticise his small defects as well as his great. She flattered herself she had harvested wisdom and learned a great deal more of life than this light-minded creature had even suspected. Pansy was fond of the good sisters, who were very fond of her, and there was therefore for the moment no definite hardship in her lot. A team of international astronomers said on Friday they had discovered a new planet in a nearby solar system. He had always had a high standard of courtesy, and it was therefore not remarkable, under the circumstances, that he should have taken the trouble to come down from London to call on Mrs. Touchett. It made him feel hot, so that he had to pat his forehead with his handkerchief; he had never been so uncomfortable. Isabel was irritated by her friend's interference, yet she still tried to think what truth this declaration could represent. Signor Rodriguez informed them of an old Spaniard who fiddled at weddings - fiddled so as to make a tortoise waltz.

10. No sooner had he heard the young people come in and go upstairs than he sent a maid to tell Miss Katharine that he wished to speak to her in the study. 11. It was fortunate she had so good a formula; otherwise she might have been greatly in want of one. 12. The distance between the planet and its star opens up the possibility that there could be Earth-like planets closer to Epsilon Eridani - in a zone that Cochran said might be habitable. 13. I want to be where I can see you. 14. It was as if he had had the evil eye; as if his presence were a blight and his favour a misfortune. 15. The Countess still remained behind, so that Isabel requested the footman to go into the Coliseum and tell her they were waiting. Revision Ex.28 Analyse the following sentences: 1. As soon as he had said this, his pace slackened, his head fell, his eyes became fixed. 2. Don't wait for my next absence, for I shan't make another. 3. Since your relations with us began you have been, I frankly confess, less - less peculiar than I expected. 4. What Russia needs is a Strong Man. 5. While on patrol in the Barent's Sea near the primary Soviet Submarine base at Severomorsk, the U.S.S. Baton Rouge collided with the Barracuda, a Soviet, Sierra-class, nuclear-powered attack submarine. 6. Katharine Hilbery is coming, by the way, so William Rodney told me. 7. When they stepped out of the train into the still grayer gloom of Highgate, she wondered, for the first time, where he was taking her. 8. No sheep bells. 9. Tell the gentleman, whoever he might be, that I had heard a great deal about him and had come to see for myself. 10. What Verkhovsky really said was that the Allies must be pressed to offer peace, because the Russian army could fight no longer. 11. He found her standing where he had left her. 12. What was it she expected to win? 13. Julia could not but laugh when she thought how strangely his passion for economy contrasted with the devil-may-care, extravagant creatures he portrayed so well on the stage. 14. After painting for some minutes, she suddenly laid down her brush and fixed her eyes upon Rachel. 15. She knew her aunt never touched the piano, and the musician was therefore probably Ralph, who played for his own amusement.

Ex.29 Analyse the following sentences: 1. Osmond had told her to think of what he had said; and she did so indeed, and of many other things. 2. Then he rose, his knees creaking, and turned away from the dark hold. 3. After six months of work, investigators said on Thursday that they still believe Chechen rebels may have been behind the apartment building explosions in Moscow, Buinaksk and Volgodonsk, but they have no evidence proving their involvement. 4. It might very well have been true; for during those months she had imagined a world of things that had no substance. 5. Even today the Untouchables - the lowest caste - are treated like lepers. 6. The new planet is the 41st to be discovered outside our solar system recently. 7. She had lain down without undressing, it being her belief that Ralph would not outlast the night. 8. I won't say it again, lest you should be disappointed in them. 9. When Pansy began to go to parties, she always, at a reasonable hour, lest Mrs. Osmond should be tired, was the first to propose departure. 10. Isabel appreciated the sacrifice of the late dances, for she knew her little companion had a passionate pleasure in this exercise, taking her steps to the music like a conscientious fairy. 11. He had no sooner spoken than she recovered her self-possession, and the first use she made of it was to pretend she had not heard him. 12. Although he gave the most interesting and thrilling glimpses Isabel felt he never did it to exhibit himself. 13. They talked a little of Ralph, and in another moment Pansy came in, already dressed for dinner. 14. Their hair rose in waves and scrolls so as to appear like carved wood in Gothic churches rather than hair. 15. A servant came in to attend to the fire, and she bade him bring fresh candles and then go to bed.

О.О.Новосельцева СИНТАКСИС АНГЛИЙСКОГО ПРЕДЛОЖЕНИЯ Учебно-методическое пособие к практикуму по синтаксису английского предложения ЛР 021216 от 29.04.1997 ____________________________________________ Подписано в печать 30.01.2001г. Формат 60×841/16 1,25 уч.-изд.л., 1,25 усл.печ.л. Тираж 100 экз. Печать офсетная. Бумага офсетная. Заказ № Издательство РГПУ имени А.И.Герцена 191186, С.-Петербург, наб. р. Мойки, 48 ____________________________________________