- •1. Point out the main and the secondary parts of the sentence and name them:
- •2. Underline verbal predicates with one line and nominal predicates with two lines.
- •3. Point out direct, indirect, and prepositional objects and say what they are expressed by.
- •4. Point out the objects and say what kind they are:
- •5. Copy the following sentences putting the direct and the indirect objects in their proper place; insert to or for wherever necessary:
- •6. Point out the attribute and say what it is expressed by.
- •7. Point out adverbial modifiers of time, place, and manner and say what they are expressed by.
- •8. Put the adverbial modifiers in their proper places.
- •9. Put the adverbs given in brackets in their proper places.
- •10. Put the adverbs of indefinite time in their proper places.
- •11. Put the adverbs given in brackets in their proper places.
- •12. Put the adverbs in brackets in their proper places:
- •13. Put the adverbs given in brackets in their proper place:
- •14. Put very much in its proper place.
- •15. Paraphrase the sentences using too or enough:
- •16. Make up sentences using the following words:
- •17. Choose an adjective to form a nominal predicate and an adverb to modify a verbal predicate.
- •18. Choose the proper word from brackets and say in which of the sentences look is a link-verb:
- •19. Put general questions to the following statements:
- •20. Put disjunctive questions to the following statements:
- •21. Change the following sentences into disjunctive questions:
- •22. Change the following general questions into disjunctive ones:
- •23. Put general and alternative questions to the following statements:
- •24. Make up imperative sentences.
- •25. Make up negative imperative sentences:
- •26. Make up questions to which the words in bold type are answers:
- •27. Form all possible questions to the following sentences:
- •28. Complete the following sentences translating what is given in brackets:
- •29. Use an indefinite article in the following exclamatory sentences where necessary:
- •30. Fill in the blanks with it is or there is:
- •31. Fill in the blanks with there is or it is:
- •32. Fill in the blanks with there or it:
19. Put general questions to the following statements:
1. Mrs. Sandford is in bed. 2. These words are easy. 3. She is a good student. 4. They are in the garden. 5. Her daughter is a teacher. 6. The children are at school. 7. John is 19 years old. 8. Lesson 9 is difficult. 9. It is 10 o'clock. 10. The flowers are yellow. 11. You are future teachers.
20. Put disjunctive questions to the following statements:
1. Your family is not large. 2. The children are in the garden. 3. This man is a doctor. 4. His parents are not in Moscow. 5. It is six o'clock now. 6. Benny is not in the nursery. 7. They are old friends. 8. This is a very interesting book. 9. It gets dark very early in winter. 10. We can have a good time together. 11. Victory Day is the greatest holiday in our country. 12. It doesn't take you long to get to the University. 13. They have a lot of relatives in Moscow. 14. There isn't any chalk at the blackboard. 15. You don't remember the new words. 16. She hasn't got any mistakes in her translation. 17. Benny and John are his nephews. 18. Some of our students live in the hostel. 19. She spends a lot of time in the laboratory.
21. Change the following sentences into disjunctive questions:
1. He is having dinner now. 2. They usually have dinner at six. 3. She has a music lesson every Wednesday. 4. They had a quarrel yesterday. 5. She is having a music lesson now. 6. He had to take four exams. 7. Next week you'll have to prepare for your last exam. 8. She had to wait for a long time. 9. We have to arrange everything by tomorrow. 10. He had to pay a lot of money for this TV-set. 11. They will have to start tomorrow morning. 12. He has to work a lot at his English.
22. Change the following general questions into disjunctive ones:
1. Is Doctor Sandford still at the hospital? 2. Does your grandmother live in the country? 3. Have you many English books at home? 4. Are there any new words in this text? 5. Do you usually have dinner with your family? 6. Do you want to see this new film? 7. Can your cousin play the piano? 8. Does he not study German? 9. Is there a study in your flat? 10. Must we sign this paper at once? 11. Do little children sleep twice a day? 12. Are his parents not in Moscow now? 13. Do all the members of your family read the Times'? 14. Do you not remember all the new words?
23. Put general and alternative questions to the following statements:
1. The girl is small. 2. The children are at school. 3. It is dark in the room. 4. This is a velvet dress. 5. The dog is in the yard. 6. They are busy all the time.
24. Make up imperative sentences.
Note. Please is introduced before or after the imperative for polite requests.
Ask your friend: 1. to go to the blackboard; 2. to give you a fountain-pen; 3. to fetch some chalk; 4. to find lesson 11; 5. to speak louder; 6. to meet you at 5; 7. to go to the laboratory with you; 8. to write exercise 3 at home; 9. to learn this poem by heart; 10. to write down the new words; 11. to repeat the sentence three times; 12. to look at the blackboard; 13. to listen to the new text; 14. to show you the way to the theatre