Progress test (sample 2)

1. State the function and the type of the following phonetic, graphical and morphological em and sd.

1. “ I want you to teach my son a foreign language”. – “ Certainly, Madam. German, French, Russian, Italian, Spanish?” – “Which is the most foreign?

1. “Luscious, languid and lustful, isn’t she? “ “Those are not the correct epithets. She is – or rather was – surly, lustrous and sadistic.”

2. Can you tell me where this road goes please? – It doesn’t go anywhere it just stops where it is.

3. I don’t want to turn into a Teddy Bolan.

4. There were ladies too, in caps and bonnets, some of whom knew Trilby and theed and thoued with familiar and friendly affection…

1. State the type and function of stylistically marked words in the following utterances.

5. The tealeaves scarpered with all the moolah.

6. Overtime emoluments are not available for employees who are not resident.

7. Tell me , thou star, whose wings of light speed thee in thy fiery flight…

8. Would you like me to pop downstairs and make you a cup of cocoa?

9. All those medical bustards should go through the ops they put other people through. Then they wouldn’t talk so much bloody nonsense or be so damnably unutterably smug.

2. State the difference between the contextual and the dictionary meaning of the italicized words Identify all other sDs created, if any. Suggest your variant of translation

10. He inched the car forward.

11. He sat with the strike committee for many hours in a smoky room and agonized over ways and means.

12. I need young critical things like you to punch me up.

13. Mr. James Duffy lived in Chapelizod, because he wished to live as far as possible from the city… and because he found all the other suburbs of Dublin mean, modern and pretentious.

14. He seemed prosperous, extremely married and unromantic.

3. Think about the stylistic function the highlighted element performs in the following utterances.

15. Душа сполохана тремтить листком берези.

16. Браття, в кого є на цигарку?

17. It began to rain slowly and heavily and drenchingly… and her thought went down the lane towards the field the hedge, the trees – oak, beech, elm

18. She knew all at once, what her life was. It was a going away.

19. на сцену виходить чоловік

вигукує вона не кохає мене

і стрибає до оркестрової ями

зал аплодує

у тебе зволожені очі

драма

а якби я стрибнув

була б комедія

4.Analyze lexico-semantic and syntactic Ems and sDs in the following utterances.

20. The famous Alderman objected to the phrase in Canning’s inscription for a Pitt Memorial “he died poor” and wished to substitute “He expired in indignant circumstances.

21. Apart from splits based on politics, racial, religious and ethnic backgrounds and specific personality differences, we are just one cohesive team.

22. There is only one brand of tobacco allowed there – “Three nuns”. None today, none tomorrow, none the day after.

23. Some writer once said: “How many times you can call yourself a Man depends on how many languages you now.”

24. As Prew listened the mobile face before him melted to a battle-blackened skull as thought a flamethrower had passed over it, kissed it lightly, and moved on. The skull talked to him about his health.

25. I was staring directly in front of me, at the back of the driver’s neck, which was a relief map of boil scars.

26. They walked along, two continents of experience and feeling, unable to communicate.

27. We sat down at a table with two girls in yellow and three men, each one introduced to us as Mr. Mumble.

28. Than Roy no one could show a more genuine cordiality to a fellow novelist.

29. Failure meant poverty, poverty meant squalor, squalor led in the final stages, to the smells and stagnation of B. Inn alley.