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 toreassure theConsul. (Cronin) 6. The sight of them, so intent and so quick, gave Bertha a curious shiver. (Mansfield) 7. Eight o'clock in the morning. Miss Ada Moss lay in a black iron bedstead, staring up at the ceiling. (Munsfield) 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. Forget ting 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." (Galsaoorthy) 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 wom­en 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)

 

1. 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! Oh! 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 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)

 

b) Predicate

 

Exercises

 

1. Point out 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 and 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. (Prichard) 9. She became bitter and unapproachable. (Thome) l0.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 I 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 satwrapped 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 Abramovich 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)

 

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

 

I. 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 a part 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 the kitchen-range with his coat off. (Lindsay) 9. The day of our wedding came. He was to call 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. (\Veyman) 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. (D ickens) 21. Some of the wounded lay unconscious. (Waiter) 22. He 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 face for the first time. (Braine) 34. Giovanni looked crest-fallen. (Stone) 35. He was beginning to sound really angry. (Murdoch)

 

c) Object

 

Exercises