Англ.яз. Теоретическая грамматика (курс 1)

Define if the sentence is grammatically correct. A) She saw more and more; she saw too much. B) It was Miss Overmore, her first governess, who on a momentous occasion had sown the seeds of secrecy; sown them not by anything she said, but by a mere roll of those fine eyes which Maisie already admired. Подберите правильный ответ

• А — да, В — нет
• А — нет, В — нет
• А — нет, В — да
• А — да, В — да

The sentence is: She was taken into the confidence of passions on which she fixed just the stare she might have had for images bounding across the wall in the slide of a magic-lantern.

• Cannot be defined
• simple
• complex
• compound

Define if the sentence is grammatically correct. A) Nothing could incommode him more than not to got the good, for the child, of a nice female appendage who had clearly taken a fancy to her. B) One of the things Ida said to the appendage was that Beale’s was a house in which no decent woman could consent to be seen. Подберите правильный ответ

• А — нет, В — нет
• А — да, В — нет
• А — да, В — да
• А — нет, В — да

Match the parts of the sentences:

• The mother had wished to prevent the father from, as she said, «so much as looking» at the child;
• in which Maisie was to be educated—she was to fit them together as she might.
• Nothing could have been more touching at first than her failure
• to suspect the ordeal that awaited her little unspotted soul.
• These were the opposed principles
• the father’s plea was that the mother’s lightest touch was «simply contamination.»

Match the parts of the sentences:

• They made up together for instance some twelve feet three of stature,
• it was indeed a great deal to be able to say for Ida that no one but Beale desired her blood, and for Beale that if he should ever have his eyes scratched out it would be only by his wife.
• Everybody was always assuring everybody of something very shocking,
• and nobody would have been jolly if nobody had been outrageous.
• The pair appeared to have a social attraction which failed merely as regards each other:
• and nothing was more discussed than the apportionment of this quantity.

Match the parts of the sentences:

• The evil they had the gift of thinking or pretending to think of each other they poured into her little gravely-gazing soul as into a boundless receptacle,
• she was the little feathered shuttlecock they could fiercely keep flying between them.
• In that lively sense of the immediate which is the very air of a child’s mind the past, on each occasion, became for her as indistinct as the future: she surrendered herself
• to the actual with a good faith that might have been touching to either parent.
• Crudely as they had calculated they were at first justified by the event:
• and each of them had doubtless the best conscience in the world as to the duty of teaching her the stern truth that should be her safeguard against the other.

Define if the sentence is grammatically correct. A) It would serve this lady right, Maisie gathered, if that contract, in the shape of an overgrown and underdressed daughter, should be shipped straight out to her and landed at her feet in the midst of scandalous excesses. B) The picture of these pursuits was what Miss Overmore took refuge in when the child tried timidly to ascertain if her father were disposed to feel he had too much of her. Подберите правильный ответ

• А — нет, В — да
• А — да, В — да
• А — нет, В — нет
• А — да, В — нет

The sentence refers to: She was divided in two and the portions tossed impartially to the disputants.

• Past
• Future
• Present
• Future-in-the-Past

Define if the sentence is grammatically correct. A) She turned these things over and remarked to Miss Overmore that if she should go to her mother perhaps the gentleman might become her tutor. B) It quite fell in with this intensity those one day, on returning from a walk with the housemaid, Maisie should have found her in the hall, seated on the stool usually occupied by the telegraph-boys who haunted Beale Farange’s door and kicked their heels while, in his room, answers to their missives took form with the aid of smoke-puffs and growls. Подберите правильный ответ

• А — да, В — да
• А — нет, В — да
• А — нет, В — нет
• А — да, В — нет

Define if the sentence is grammatically correct. A) Moddle had become at this time, after alternations of residence of which the child had no clear record, an image faintly embalmed in the remembrance of hungry disappearances from the nursery and distressful lapses in the alphabet, sad embarrassments, in particular, when invited to recognize something her nurse described as «the important letter haitch.» B) Miss Overmore, however hungry, never disappeared: this marked her somehow as of higher rank, and the character was confirmed by a prettiness that Maisie supposed to be extraordinary. Подберите правильный ответ

• А — да, В — нет
• А — нет, В — да
• А — да, В — да
• А — нет, В — нет

Match the parts of the sentences:

• She testified moreover to the force of her own perception in
• on the strength of his charming portrait, made up her mind that Sir Claude promised her a future.
• «You can see, I hope,» she added with much expression, «that HE’S a perfect gentleman!» Maisie had never before heard the word «sympathetic» applied to anybody’s face;
• She heard it with pleasure and from that moment it agreeably remained with her.
• Her researches had hitherto indicated that to incur a second parent of the same sex you had usually to lose the first. «ISN’T he sympathetic?» asked Mrs. Wix, who had clearly,
• A small soft sigh of response to the pleasant eyes that seemed to seek her acquaintance, to speak to her directly.

Match the parts of the sentences:

• Mrs. Farange, in the candour of new-found happiness,
• drawing from the pocket of her dingy old pelisse a small flat parcel, removed its envelope and wished to know if THAT looked like a gentleman who wouldn’t be nice to everybody—let alone to a person he would be so sure to find so nice.
• It would still be essentially a struggle,
• but its object would now be NOT to receive her.
• Mrs. Wix, after Miss Overmore’s last demonstration, addressed herself wholly to the little girl, and,
• had enclosed a «cabinet» photograph of Sir Claude, and Maisie lost herself in admiration of the fair smooth face, the regular features, the kind eyes, the amiable air, the general glossiness and smartness of her prospective stepfather—only vaguely puzzled to suppose herself now with two fathers at once.

The underlined word is: «You must take your mamma’s message, Maisie, and you must feel that her wishing me to come to you with it this way is a great proof of interest and affection. She sends you her particular love andannounces to you that she’s engaged to be married to Sir Claude.»

• Predicate
• object
• Subject
• attribute

Match the parts of the sentences:

• He’s quite lovely!»
• as she still held the photograph and Sir Claude continued to fraternise, «Oh can’t I keep it?» she broke out.
• No sooner had she done so than she looked up from it at Miss Overmore: this was with the sudden instinct of appealing
• to the authority that had long ago impressed on her that she mustn’t ask for things.
• Then eagerly, irrepressibly,
• She declared to Mrs. Wix.

Define if the sentence is grammatically correct. A) Waiting patiently, and above all waiting till she should came back there, seemed to Maisie a long way round—it reminded her of all the things she had been told, first and last, that she should have if she’d be good and that in spite of her goodness she had never had at all. B) «Then who’ll takes care of me at papa’s?» Подберите правильный ответ

• А — да, В — да
• А — нет, В — да
• А — нет, В — нет
• А — да, В — нет

The predicate(s) of the sentence is (are) No, because you detest him so much that you’ll always talk to her about him.

• you
• always
• detest
• ‘ll talk

Define if the sentence is grammatically correct. A) She privately wonder moreover, though she never asked, about the awful poverty, of which her companion also never spoke. B) Food at any rate come up by mysterious laws; Miss Overmore never, like Moddle, had on an apron, and when she ate she held her fork with her little finger curled out. Подберите правильный ответ

• А — да, В — да
• А — нет, В — да
• А — нет, В — нет
• А — да, В — нет

Define the syntactic function of the underlined word: Billiards was her great accomplishment and the distinction her name always first produced the mention of. Notwithstanding some very long lines everything about her that might have been large and that in many women profited by the licence was, with a single exception, admired and cited for its smallness.

Define the type of the sentence: Maisie had never betrayed her.

• simple
• compound
• complex
• Cannot be defined

Define the syntactic function of the underlined word: The exception was her eyes, which might have been of mere regulation size, but which overstepped the modesty of nature; her mouth, on the other hand, was barely perceptible, and odds were freely taken as to the measurement of her waist.

The predicate(s) of the sentence is (are): For Maisie moreover concealment had never necessarily seemed deception; she had grown up among things as to which her foremost knowledge was that she was never to ask about them.

• was to ask
• never necessarily
• had seemed
• to ask about them

Match the parts of the sentences:

• She had the knowledge that on a certain occasion which every day brought nearer her mother would be at the door to take her away, and this would have darkened all the days
• «You ought to be perfectly ashamed of yourself—you ought to blush, sir, for the way you go on!»
• These promises ranged from «a mother’s fond love» to «a nice poached egg to your tea,» and took by the way the prospect of sitting up ever so late to see the lady in question dressed,
• In silks and velvets and diamonds and pearls, to go out: so that it was a real support to Maisie, at the supreme hour, to feel how, by Moddle’s direction, the paper was thrust away in her pocket and there clenched in her fist.
• The supreme hour was to furnish her with a vivid reminiscence, that of a strange outbreak in the drawing-room on the part of Moddle, who, in reply to something her father had just said, cried aloud:
• if the ingenious Moddle hadn’t written on a paper in very big easy words ever so many pleasures that she would enjoy at the other house.

Define if the sentence is grammatically correct. A) The child, who watch her at many moments, watched her particularly at that one. B) «I think you’re lovely,» she often say to her; even mamma, who was lovely too, had not such a pretty way with the fork. Подберите правильный ответ

• А — нет, В — нет
• А — нет, В — да
• А — да, В — нет
• А — да, В — да

Define the type of the sentence: She adored his daughter; she couldn’t give her up; she’d make for her any sacrifice.

• simple
• compound
• complex
• Cannot be defined

Define the type of the sentence: On this basis it had been arranged that she should stay; her courage had been rewarded; she left Maisie in no doubt as to the amount of courage she had required.

• compound
• Cannot be defined
• complex
• simple

The sentence is: The child was provided for, but the new arrangement was inevitably confounding to a young intelligence intensely aware that something had happened which must matter a good deal and looking anxiously out for the effects of so great a cause.

• compound
• simple
• Cannot be defined
• complex

The underlined word is: Mrs. Wix enquired with astonishment why it should do anything of the sort, and Miss Overmore gave as an instant reason that it was clearly but another dodge in a system of dodges. She wanted to get out of the bargain: why else had she now left Maisie on her father’s hands weeks and weeks beyond the time about which she had originally made such a fuss?

• object
• Subject
• attribute
• Predicate

The predicate(s) of the sentence is (are): Embedded in Mrs. Wix’s nature as her tooth had been socketed in her gum, the operation of extracting her would really have been a case for chloroform.

• embedded
• In her gum
• Would have been a case
• had been socketed

Fill in the gap: Her parted lips locked themselves _________ the determination to be employed no longer.

The sentence refers to: «Won’t it be enough of a change for her?»

• Past
• Present
• Future
• Future-in-the-Past

The underlined word is: That young lady opened her eyes very wide; she immediately remarked that Mrs. Farange’s marriage would of course put an end to any further pretension to take her daughter back.

• attribute
• object
• Subject
• Predicate

Match the parts of the sentences:

• She should serve their anger and seal their revenge, for husband and wife had been alike crippled
• or, to put it differently, offered them both as bad indeed, since they were only as good as each other.
• They had wanted her not for any good they could do her,
• but for the harm they could, with her unconscious aid, do each other.
• If each was only to get half this seemed to concede that neither was so base as the other pretended,
• by the heavy hand of justice, which in the last resort met on neither side their indignant claim to get, as they called it, everything.

The sentence refers to: What was to have been expected on the evidence was the nomination, _in loco parentis_, of some proper third person, some respectable or at least some presentable friend.

• Past
• Present
• Future-in-the-Past
• Future

Match the parts of the sentences:

• The sole flaw in Ida’s beauty was a length and reach of arm conducive perhaps to her having so often beaten her ex-husband at billiards,
• and nothing was more discussed than the apportionment of this quantity.
• It was generally felt, to begin with, that they were awfully good-looking—
• they had really not been analysed to a deeper residuum.
• They made up together for instance some twelve feet three of stature,
• a game in which she showed a superiority largely accountable, as she maintained, for the resentment finding expression in his physical violence.

Define the type of the sentence: Besides she could easily see it.

• Cannot be defined
• complex
• simple
• compound

Define if the sentence is grammatically correct. A) The bright creature told her little charge frankly what had happened—that she had really been unable to hold out. B) She had broke her vow to Mrs. Farange; she had struggled for three days and then had come straight to Maisie’s papa and told him the simple truth. Подберите правильный ответ

• А — да, В — да
• А — нет, В — да
• А — нет, В — нет
• А — да, В — нет

The underlined word is: «Sir Claude?» Maisie wonderingly echoed. But while Mrs. Wix explained that this gentleman was a dear friend of Mrs. Farange’s, who had been of great assistance to her in getting to Florence and in making herself comfortable there for the winter, she was not too violently shaken to perceive her old friend’s enjoyment of the effect of this news on Miss Overmore.

• object
• Predicate
• attribute
• Subject

Fill in the gap: The stiff dolls __________ the dusky shelves began to move their arms and legs; old forms and phrases began to have a sense that frightened her.

Define if the sentence is grammatically correct. A) The prospect of not showing to advantage, a distinction in which she held she had never fail, begot in Ida Farange an ill humour of which several persons felt the effect. B) She determined that Beale at any rate should feel it; she reflected afresh that in the study of how to be odious to him she must never give way. Подберите правильный ответ

• А — нет, В — нет
• А — да, В — нет
• А — нет, В — да
• А — да, В — да

Match the parts of the sentences:

• In the presence of it she
• by such innocence?
• Little by little, however, she understood more,
• for it befell that she was enlightened by Lisette’s questions, which reproduced the effect of her own upon those for whom she sat in the very darkness of Lisette.
• Was she not herself convulsed
• often imitated the shrieking ladies.

The predicate(s) of the sentence is (are) «Poor little monkey!» she at last exclaimed; and the words were an epitaph for the tomb of Maisie’s childhood.

• ______
• For the tomb
• exclaimed
• were an epitaph

The predicate(s) of the sentence is (are): That had at the time dimly recalled to Maisie the far-away moment of Moddle’s great outbreak: there seemed always to be «shames» connected in one way or another with her migrations.

• seemed to be «shames»
• at the time dimly
• connected in one way
• had recalled

The predicate(s) of the sentence is (are): A part of it was the consequence of her father’s telling her he felt it too, and telling Moddle, in her presence, that she must make a point of driving that home.

• A part
• was the consequence
• she must make a point
• In her present

Define the type of the sentence: He had been rather remarkably absent from his wife’s career, and Maisie was never taken to see his grave.

• simple
• Cannot be defined
• complex
• compound

The predicate(s) of the sentence is (are): The child wondered if they didn’t make it hurt more than usual; but it was only after some time that she was able to attach to the picture of her father’s sufferings, and more particularly to her nurse’s manner about them, the meaning for which these things had waited.

• To the pictures
• was able to attach
• Her nurse’s manner
• wondered

Match the parts of the sentences:

• She became aware in time that this phase wouldn’t have shone by lessons, the care of her education being now only one of the many duties devolving on Miss Overmore;
• and the more effectually that this stretch was the longest she had known without a break.
• It was gathered by the child on these occasions that there was something in the situation for which her mother might «come down» on them all,
• Though indeed the remark, always dropped by her father, was greeted on his companion’s part with direct contradiction. Such scenes were usually brought to a climax by Miss Overmore’s demanding, with more asperity than she applied to any other subject, in what position under the sun such a person as Mrs. Farange would find herself for coming down.
• As the months went on the little girl’s interpretations thickened,
• a devolution as to which she was present at various passages between that lady and her father—passages significant, on either side, of dissent and even of displeasure.

Fill in the gap: Maisie greatly preferred gentlemen as inmates in spite ___________ their also having their way—louder but sooner over—of laughing out at her.

The sentence is: Her first term was with her father, who spared her only in not letting her have the wild letters addressed to her by her mother: he confined himself to holding them up at her and shaking them, while he showed his teeth, and then amusing her by the way he chucked them, across the room, bang into the fire.

• complex
• compound
• simple
• Cannot be defined

Match the parts of the sentences:

• Maisie was not at the moment so fully conscious of them as of the wonder of Moddle’s sudden disrespect and crimson face; but she was able to produce them in the course of five minutes when, in the carriage, her mother, all kisses, ribbons, eyes, arms, strange sounds and sweet smells, said to her:
• who had her in his arms, said to Moddle: «My dear woman, I’ll settle you presently!»—after which he repeated, showing his teeth more than ever at Maisie while he hugged her, the words for which her nurse had taken him up.
• Then it was that she found the words spoken by her beastly papa to be, after all, in her little bewildered ears, from which, at her
• mother’s appeal, they passed, in her clear shrill voice, straight to her little innocent lips.
• The carriage, with her mother in it, was at the door; a gentleman who was there, who was always there, laughed out very loud; her father,
• «And did your beastly papa, my precious angel, send any message to your own loving mamma?»

Define if the sentence is grammatically correct. A) Familiar as she have grown with the fact of the great alternative to the proper, she felt in her governess and her father a strong reason for not emulating that detachment. B) At the same time she have heard somehow of little girls—of exalted rank, it was true—whose education was carried on by instructors of the other sex, and she knew that if she were at school at Brighton it would be thought an advantage to her to be more or less in the hands of masters. Подберите правильный ответ

• А — нет, В — нет
• А — нет, В — да
• А — да, В — нет
• А — да, В — да