Exercise 2

Translate the following sentences and define the type of homonymy the words on bold type present.

1. a) I thought there might be a scene.

b) It seemed fantastic, but at last Charles had to admit that he had not seen his father in a stare for a long time.

2. a) Three whole days and it’s still just stubble.

b) According to my publisher one and a half million people read my first novel “Out of a Hole”.

3. a) An engineer represented a very interesting draft of the further project. He wanted to accomplish it.

b) I prefer switching on a chimney-piece on cold October nights. By the way I’m afraid of drafts in my room.

4. a) Visibility was excellent, everything seemed clean, the very air.

b) Those words sounded strange, in the drawing-room at Bryanston Square from the heir to one of the March fortunes.

5. a) Sir Philip was a spare man with pale face. He seemed to us enraged not by anxiety but by caustic remarks of his neighbour.

b) You must spare your efforts if you don’t want to be exhausted by this tiresome job.

6. a) They were camping on a sand bank.

b) He had met his wife in India, where he had held a senior post in a foreign bank.

7. a) In most places he had not even altered the words.

b) I am even itself out.

Exercise 3

Give homonyms to the words in bold type.

1. I have never seen so many mountain springs.

2. He was wearing a new butterfly bow, red with White spots.

3. “I’m sorry I still support Julian on the timetable,” said Clark.

4. The buildings were a pleasant colour in the strong sun, bright green trees showed among them, and the whole thing looked inviting and rather historical.

5. Yes, it’s almost warm – it’s really spring.

6. The cold was beginning to rip their features, and to strike up through the soles of their feet.

7. Of these four, I was thinking Martin was by the way the most realistic.

8. She was a big woman with a plain white anxious face.

9. Her own memory was all blurs and seams.

10. His chin gradually rose from his chest.

11. An inch of park gate was kept open for them.

12. I’ll go and see them in the morning and get the details.

13. So tell all I need the security of at latest a week’s beard to left up and bare the soul underneath.

14. Look here, won’t you talk this over on the plane of reason.

15. I can start remembering something about my school and how I left it.

Exercise 4

Translate the following sentences and pick out synonyms.

1. He soon ceased to choose every morning from his wardrobe the tie he wanted. He found that she put out for him the one he would have himself selected.

2. You’ve changed a man’s nature, you’ve altered a component, a physical component of his being.

3. Her affairs were no business of mine.

4. He went into his bedroom and looked round it. It was neat and tidy.

5. Mr. Kellada liked to chat. He talked of New York and of San Francisco.

6. Philip looked patiently down at his brother. The two sisters gazed with anxiety and the other children stared blankly.

7. “You look very nice and brown, dear,” said Aunt Matilda. “You look different. Why do you look different?” “Because I’m sunburnt.”

8. The drawing room shone and glistened with the spotlessness of a house without children.

9. She had neither Maria grace nor her beauty, but was a stout heavy girl with red cheeks and mousy hair.

10. He saw that she was starting to cry. “My poor Riley,” said Miss Carter, and she wept without restraint.

11. “It was a horrible evening. I shall never forget it. That awful party at the Greek Park or whatever the hotel was called.”

12. He fixed his gaze on Gray, but didn’t seem to look at him; he seemed rather to look through and beyond him.

13. He had the high spirits of his youth, a natural wish to enjoy himself and an adventurous temper.

14. She is a talkative woman and certainly a gossip.

15. You could put him next to a very boring old lady and count on him to be charming and amusing with her.

16. “Dear me, dear me!” said Nan. “What a cry baby! You’re always wailing!”

17. Oh, dear, it’s so difficult, isn’t it. All the names I mean. They are most peculiar and hard to spell.