Английский язык. Теоретическая грамматика. Часть 1

Match the parts of the sentences:

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

The underlined words are: “You hang about him in a way that’s barely decent—he can do what he likes with you. Well then, let him, to his heart’s content: he has been in such a hurry to take you that we’ll see if it suits him to keep you. I’m very good to break my heart about it when you’ve no more feeling for me than a clammy little fish!»

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Define what part of speech the underlined words are: But on this point Randolph seemed perfectly indifferent; he continued to supply information with regard to his own family.»My father’s name is Ezra B. Miller,» he announced.

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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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Match the parts of the sentences:

• This was his direct way of rising to Mrs. Wix’s grand lesson—
• fell asleep; they tried a hundred places for the best one to have tea.
• There was at this season a wonderful month of May—as soft as a drop of the wind in a gale
• that had kept one awake—when he took out his stepdaughter with a fresh alacrity and they rambled the great town in search, as Mrs. Wix called it, of combined amusement and instruction.
• They rode on the top of ‘buses; they visited outlying parks; they went to cricket-matches where Maisie
• of making his little accepted charge his duty and his life.

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: There are sights and sounds which evoke a vision, an echo, of Newport and Saratoga.

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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?»

Match the parts of the sentences:

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

Define what part of speech the underlined word is: «My dear fellow, I am so sorry. When I am painting, I can’t think of anything else. But you never sat better. You were perfectly still. And I have caught the effect I wanted— the half-parted lips and the bright look in the eyes. I don’t know what Harry has been saying to you, but he has certainly made you have the most wonderful expression. I suppose he has been paying you compliments. You mustn’t believe a word that he says.»

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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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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:

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

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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Match the parts of the sentences:

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

The underlined word is: “ How perfectly hideous they are! Except, of course, in the Church. But then in the Church they don’t think. A bishop keeps on saying at the age of eighty what he was told to say when he was a boy of eighteen, and as a natural consequence he always looks absolutely delightful. Your mysterious young friend, whose name you have never told me, but whose picture really fascinates me, never thinks….”

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Match the parts of the sentences:

• «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.
• 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.
• 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.

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:

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

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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The underlined word is: And he never said a word to her against her mother—he only remained dumb and discouraged in the face of her ladyship’s own overtopping earnestness.

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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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Match the parts of the sentences:

• Such apprehension as she felt on this score was not diminished by the fact that
• Mrs. Beale—with two fathers, two mothers and two homes, six protections in all, she shouldn’t know «wherever» togo.
• A governess who had only one frock was not likely to have either two fathers or two mothers: accordingly if even with these resources Maisie was to be in the streets,
• where in the name of all that was dreadful was poor Mrs. Wix to be?
• She therefore recognised the hour that in troubled glimpses she had long foreseen, the hour when—the phrase for it came back to her from
• Mrs. Wix herself was suddenly white with terror: a circumstance leading Maisie to the further knowledge that this lady was still more scared on her own behalf than on that of her pupil.

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.

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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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: Lord Henry elevated his eyebrows and looked at him in amazement through the thin blue wreaths of smoke that curled up in such fanciful whorls from his heavy, opium-tainted cigarette.

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

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Define what parts of speech the underlined words are: “It cannot be questioned. It has its divine right of sovereignty. It makes princes of those who have it. You smile? Ah! when you have lost it you won’t smile. . . . “

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Define what part of speech is the underlined word: I hardly know whether it was the analogies or the differences that were uppermost in the mind of a young American, who, two or three years ago, sat in the garden of the «Trois Couronnes,» looking about him, rather idly, at some of the graceful objects I have mentioned.

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Match the parts of the sentences:

• It gave her often an odd air of being present at her history in as separate a manner as if she could only get at experience
• herself in discussion and finding in the fury of it—she had had a glimpse of the game of football—a sort of compensation for the doom of a peculiar passivity.
• Such she felt to be the application of
• her nose while she waited for the effect of Mrs. Wix’s eloquence.
• So the sharpened sense of spectatorship was the child’s main support, the long habit, from the first, of seeing
• by flattening her nose against a pane of glass.

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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The sentence is: He was amused and intermittent and at moments most startling; he impressed on his young companion, with a frankness that agitated her much more than he seemed to guess, that he depended on her not letting her mother, when she should see her, getanything out of her about anything Mrs. Beale might have said to him.

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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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Define what part of speech the underlined words are: «Her name is Daisy Miller!» cried the child. «But that isn’t her real name; that isn’t her name on her cards.»»It’s a pity you haven’t got one of my cards!» said Miss Miller.

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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 parts of speech the underlined words are: «I don’t feel that, Lord Henry.» «No, you don’t feel it now. Some day, when you are old and wrinkled and ugly, when thought has seared your forehead with its lines, and passion branded your lips with its hideous fires, you will feel it, you will feel it terribly. Now, wherever you go, you charm the world. Will it always be so? . . .”

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The underlined word is: «Oh, I can’t explain. When I like people immensely, I never tell their names to any one. It is like surrendering a part of them. I have grown to love secrecy. It seems to be the one thing that can make modern life mysterious or marvellous to us. The commonest thing is delightful if one only hides it. …”

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Match the parts of the sentences:

• Now that he was doing so much else
• of the day some artful means to humiliate and trample upon her?
• There was a quarter’s salary owing her—a great name, even Maisie could suspect, for a small matter; she should
• never see it as long as she lived, but keeping quiet about it put her ladyship, thank heaven, a little in one’s power.
• Didn’t her ladyship find every hour
• she could never have the grossness to apply for it to Sir Claude.

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 the underlined word is: “ Yes, Mr. Gray, the gods have been good to you. But what the gods give they quickly take away. You have only a few years in which to live really, perfectly, and fully. When your youth goes, your beauty will go with it, and then you will suddenly discover that there are no triumphs left for you, or have to content yourself with those mean triumphs that the memory of your past will make more bitter than defeats. “

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

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The underlined word is: «Too much of yourself in it! Upon my word, Basil, I didn’t know you were so vain; and I really can’t see any resemblance between you, with your rugged strong face and your coal-black hair, and this young Adonis, who looks as if he was made out of ivory and rose-leaves…”

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Fill in the gap: Don’t be afraid, my dear: I’ve squared her.» It required indeed _________ supplement when he saw that it left the child momentarily blank.

Define what part of speech is the underlined word: He had a great relish for feminine beauty; he was addicted to observing and analyzing it; and as regards this young lady’s face he made several observations.

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The underlined word is: Sometimes she sat down and sometimes she surged about, but her attitude wore equally in either case the grand air of the practical.

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Define what part of speech is the underlined word: There are, indeed, many hotels,for the entertainment of tourists is the business of the place, which, as many travelers will remember, is seated upon the edge of a remarkably blue lake—a lake that it behooves every tourist to visit.

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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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Define what part of speech is the underlined word: One of the hotels at Vevey, however, is famous, even classical, being distinguished from many of its upstart neighbors by an air both of luxury and of maturity.

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