Англ.яз. Теоретическая грамматика (курс 1). Часть 1

Define what part of speech is the underlined word: But Winterbourne had an old attachment for the little metropolis of Calvinism; he had been put to school there as a boy, and he had afterwardgone to college there—circumstances which had led to his forming a great many youthful friendships.

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The sentence is: They had been some time in the house together, and this demonstration came late.

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Match the parts of the sentences:

• If there was a type Ida despised, Sir Claude communicated to Maisie, it was the man who pottered about town
• her husband’s attitude of staying behind to look after a child for whom the most elaborate provision had been made.
• It was her ladyship’s contention that he was in craven fear of his predecessor—otherwise he would recognise it as an obligation of plain decency to protect his
• wife against the outrage of that person’s barefaced attempt to swindle her.
• It was almost equally public that she regarded as a preposterous «pose,» and indeed as a direct insult to herself,
• of a Sunday; and he also mentioned how often she had declared to him that if he had a grain of spirit he would be ashamed to accept a menial position about Mr. Farange’s daughter.

The underlined word is: From the corner of the divan of Persian saddle-bags on which he was lying, smoking, as was his custom, innumerable cigarettes, Lord Henry Wotton could just catch the gleam of the honey-sweet and honey- coloured blossoms of a laburnum, whose tremulous branches seemed hardly able to bear the burden of a beauty so flamelike as theirs; and now and then the fantastic shadows of birds in flight flitted across the long tussore-silk curtains that were stretched in front of the huge window, producing a kind of momentary Japanese effect, and making him think of those pallid, jade-faced painters of Tokio who, through the medium of an art that is necessarily immobile, seek to convey the sense of swiftness and motion.

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The underlined word is: Hard as it was, however, Sir Claude had never shown to greater advantage than in the gallant generous sociable way he carried it off: a way that drew from Mrs. Wix a hundred expressions of relief at his not having suffered it to embitter him.

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Fill in the gap: It presently appeared, however, that his reference was merely to the affectation of admiring such ridiculous works—an admonition that she received ___________ him as submissively as she received everything.

The underlined words are: She had in the old days once been told by Mrs. Beale that her very own were, and with the refreshment of knowing that she HAD affairs the information hadn’t in the least overwhelmed her.

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Match the parts of the sentences:

• What she did, however, now, after the interview with her mother, impart to Mrs. Wix was that, in spite of her having had her «good» effect,
• but if at present she wanted to know the same of Sir Claude it was quite from the opposite motive.
• She was awestruck at the manner in which a lady might be affected
• through the passion mentioned by Mrs. Wix; she held her breath with the sense of picking her steps among the tremendous things of life.
• It was because mamma hated papa that she used to want to know bad things of him;
• as she called it—the effect she studied, the effect of harmless vacancy—her ladyship’s last words had been that her ladyship’s duty by her would be thoroughly done.

Define what part of speech the underlined word is: His cool, white, flowerlike hands, even, had a curious charm. They moved, as he spoke, like music, and seemed to have a language of their own. But he felt afraid of him, and ashamed of being afraid. Why had it been left for a stranger to reveal him to himself?

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Match the parts of the sentences:

• While she was so engaged she became aware that his own breast was agitated, and gathered from it with rapture
• Mrs. Wix—Mrs. Wix was the only one who made a noise.
• Maisie did take it in—took it with a long tremor of all her little being; and then as, to emphasise it,
• he drew her closer she buried her head on his shoulder and cried without sound and without pain.
• Presently she heard a loud sob from
• that his tears were as silently flowing.

The underlined word is: «I know you will laugh at me,» he replied, «but I really can’t exhibit it. I have put too much of myself into it.»

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Define what part of speech is the underlined word: You receive an impressionof these things at the excellent inn of the «Trois Couronnes»and are transported in fancy to the Ocean House or to Congress Hall.

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The underlined word is: «He has made from the first such a row about you,» she said on one occasion to Maisie, «that I’ve told him to do for you himself and try how he likes it—see? I’ve washed my hands of you; I’ve made you over to him; and if you’re discontented it’s on him, please, you’ll come down.

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The underlined words are: She had more than once remarked that his affairs were sadly involved, but that they must get him—Maisie and she together apparently—into Parliament.

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The underlined word is: This glimpse of a misconception led her to be explicit—to put before the child, with an air of mourning indeed for such a stoop to the common, that what they talked about in the small hours, as they said, was the question of his taking right hold of life.

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Match the parts of the sentences:

• Sir Claude set down his tea-cup;
• Sir Claude laughed. «That would be the very making of us!»
• «Don’t say it—don’t say it!» Mrs. Wix pleaded. «Don’t speak of anything so fatal. You know what I mean. We
• must all cling to the right. You mustn’t be bad.»
• «Oh if she’ll only do that!»
• he had become more grave and he pensively wiped his moustache.

The underlined word is: Her visits were as good as an outfit; her manner, as Mrs. Wix once said, as good as a pair of curtains; but she was a person addicted to extremes—sometimes barely speaking to her child and sometimes pressing this tender shoot to a bosom cut, as Mrs. Wix had also observed, remarkably low.

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Define what part of speech is the underlined word: After knocking at his aunt’s door and learning that she was indisposed, he had taken a walk about the town, and then he had come in to his breakfast.

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The underlined words are: Full of charm at any rate was the prospect of some day getting Sir Claude in; especially after Mrs. Wix, as the fruit of more midnight colloquies, once went so far as to observe that she really believed it was all that was wanted to save him.

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The underlined word is: His consideration for this unfortunate woman even in the midst of them continued to show him as the perfect gentleman and lifted the subject of his courtesy into an upper air of beatitude in which her very pride had the hush of anxiety.

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The underlined word is: She talked with him, however, as time went on, very freely about her mother; being with him, in this relation, wholly without the fear that had kept her silent before her father—the fear of bearing tales and making bad things worse.

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Define what part of speech is the underlined word: It was not, however, what would have been called an immodest glance, for the young girl’s eyes were singularly honest and fresh.

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Match the parts of the sentences:

• There were questions that Maisie never asked; so her governs was spared the embarrassment of telling her if he were more of
• Mrs. Wix repeatedly remarked, «whom you may meet in grand society, nor even to whom you may be contracted in marriage.»
• This was not moreover from the want of opportunity, for there were no moments between them at which the topic could be irrelevant, no subject they were going into, not even the principal
• dates or the auxiliary verbs, in which it was further off than the turn of the page.
• But it settled the question of the degree to which Sir Claude was a gentleman: he was more of one than anybody else in the world—«I don’t care,»
• a gentleman than papa.

Define what part of speech the underlined word is: «Yes,» continued Lord Henry, «that is one of the great secrets of life— to cure the soul by means of the senses, and the senses by means of the soul. You are a wonderful creation. You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know.»

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The underlined word is: She had phrases about him that were full of easy understanding, yet full of morality.

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Fill in the gap: Mrs. Wix’s bitterness, however, again overflowed. «He does, he does,» she cried, «and it’s that that’s just the worst of it! They’ll take you, they’ll take you, and what ________ the world will then become of me?»

Define what part of speech is the underlined word: Winterbourne, laughing, answered thathe had met Germans who spoke like Americans, but that he had not, so far as he remembered, met an American who spoke like a German.

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Define what part of speech the underlined word is: «Very possibly! very possibly!» cried Mr. Pinner with a ghastly smile. «Yes, I have no doubt that we shall be able to do something for you. What is your particular line, Mr. Harris?»

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Match the parts of the sentences:

• In the way the past revived for her
• she certainly couldn’t tell her ladyship.
• She could bear that;
• she could bear anything that helped her to feel she had done something for Sir Claude.
• If she hadn’t told Mrs. Wix how Mrs. Beale seemed to like him
• there was a queer confusion.

The sentence is: Maisie accepted this hint with infinite awe and pressed upon it much when she was at last summoned into the presence of her mother.

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Define what part of speech the underlined word is: “Ah! realize your youth while you have it. Don’t squander the gold of your days, listening to the tedious, trying to improve the hopeless failure, or giving away your life to the ignorant, the common, and the vulgar. “

The sentence is: This lady, however, had formulated the position of things with an acuteness that showed how little she needed to be coached.

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Define what part of speech the underlined word is: “These are the sickly aims, the false ideals, of our age. Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing. . . . “

The underlined word is: «You don’t understand me, Harry,» answered the artist. «Of course I am not like him. I know that perfectly well. Indeed, I should be sorry to look like him. You shrug your shoulders? I am telling you the truth. There is a fatality about all physical and intellectual distinction, the sort of fatality that seems to dog through history the faltering steps of kings. It is better not to be different from one’s fellows. …”

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The underlined word is: She usually broke in alone, but sometimes Sir Claude was with her, and during all the earlier period there was nothing on which these appearances had had so delightful a bearing as on the way her ladyship was, as Mrs. Wix expressed it, under the spell. «

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Define what part of speech is the underlined word: What I should say is, simply, that when certain persons spoke of him they affirmed that the reason of his spending so muchtime at Geneva was that he was extremely devoted to a lady who lived there—a foreign lady—a person older than himself.

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Define what part of speech is the underlined word: She told him that they were going to Romefor the winter—she and her mother and Randolph.

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Match the parts of the sentences:

• This appearance had of course much
• the snug little home with Sir Claude would find itself informally established.
• This might moreover have been taken to be the sense of a remark made by her stepfather as—one rainy day when the streets were all splash and two umbrellas unsociable and the wanderers had sought shelter in the National Gallery—Maisie sat
• beside him staring rather sightlessly at a roomful of pictures which he had mystified her much by speaking of with a bored sigh as a «silly superstition.»
• Could they but hold out long enough
• to do with Mrs. Wix’s actual valour.

Define what part of speech is the underlined word: There are sights and sounds which evoke a vision, an echo, of Newport and Saratoga.

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The underlined words are: The child stared as at the jump of a kangaroo. «Save him from what?»

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Match the parts of the sentences:

• When he asked the pair how they liked the games they always replied «Oh immensely!»
• she called it with an air to which her sounding of the words gave the only grandeur Maisie was to have seen her wear save on a certain occasion hereafter to be described, an occasion when the poor lady was grander than all of them put together.
• This was a course their delicacy shrank from; they couldn’t have told exactly why, but it
• was a part of their tenderness for him not to let him think they had trouble.
• What dazzled most was his kindness to Mrs. Wix, not only the five-pound note and the «not forgetting» her, but the perfect consideration, as
• but they had earnest discussions as to whether they hadn’t better appeal to him frankly for aid to understand them.

Match the parts of the sentences:

• If the child couldn’t be worse it was a comfort even to herself that she was bad—
• these were the terms in which the good lady justified to herself and her pupil her pleasant conversational ease.
• What the pupil already knew was indeed rather taken for granted than expressed,
• but it performed the useful function of transcending all textbooks and supplanting all studies.
• «It isn’t as if you didn’t already know everything, is it, love?» and «I can’t make you any worse than you ARE, can I, darling?»—
• a comfort offering a broad firm support to the fundamental fact of the present crisis: the fact that mamma was fearfully jealous.

Define what part of speech is the underlined word: He was some seven-and-twenty years of age; when his friends spoke of him, they usually said that he was at Geneva «studying.»

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Define what part of speech the underlined word is: «You know you believe it all,» said Lord Henry, looking at him with his dreamy languorous eyes. «I will go out to the garden with you. It is horribly hot in the studio. Basil, let us have something iced to drink, something with strawberries in it.»

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Define what part of speech is the underlined word: He thought it very possible that Master Randolph’s sister was a coquette; he was sure she had a spirit of her own; but in her bright,sweet, superficial little visage there was no mockery, no irony.

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The sentence is: He chaffed Mrs. Wix till she was purple with the pleasure of it, and reminded Maisie of the reticence he expected of her till she set her teeth like an Indian captive.

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The underlined word is: He never came into the place without telling its occupants that they were the nicest people in the house—a remark which always led them to say to each other «Mr. Perriam!» as loud as ever compressed lips and enlarged eyes could make them articulate.

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Match the parts of the sentences:

• She faintly smiled—she even
• Claude ejaculated.
• «So far from doing you harm it will do you the highest good. Sir Claude, if you’ll
• listen to me, it will save you.»
• «Of bolting with YOU?» Sir
• faintly coloured.

Match the parts of the sentences:

• But she had also a balm to this fear in
• and he came into the schoolroom repeatedly to let them know how beautifully he felt everything had gone off and everything would go on.
• Mrs. Wix had a secret terror which, like most of her secret feelings, she discussed with her little companion, in great solemnity, by the hour:
• the possibility of her ladyship’s coming down on them, in her sudden highbred way, with a school.
• He was too pleased—didn’t he constantly say as much?—with the good impression made, in a wide circle, by Ida’s sacrifices;
• a conviction of the strength of Sir Claude’s grasp of the situation.

The underlined word is: «It is your best work, Basil, the best thing you have ever done,» said Lord Henry languidly. «You must certainly send it next year to the Grosvenor. The Academy is too large and too vulgar. Whenever I have gone there, there have been either so many people that I have not been able to see the pictures, which was dreadful, or so many pictures that I have not been able to see the people, which was worse. The Grosvenor is really the only place.»

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