- •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:
31. Fill in the blanks with there is or it is:
1.... a party at our Institute tonight. 2.... a lot of work to do. 3. ... not any coffee left. 4. ... cold today; ... a strong wind. 5.... not a single mistake inyour exercise. 6.... dark;... no moon. 7. ... not very far to walk. 8. ... too early to leave yet. 9. ... a cassette-recorder in the classroom. 10.... strange that she is absent today. 11. ... a postoffice near the house I live in. 12. ... a pity that you can't come with me. 13.... not true to say that she is my friend. 14. ... time to begin our lesson. 15. ... no time to write it down, the lesson is nearly over. 16. ... a fact that he is often absent from school.
32. Fill in the blanks with there or it:
1. ... was a lovely morning. 2. ... was absolute silence all over the house. 3. I'm fond of young Toby; ... is a great charm about the boy. 4. ... was Lucy who told me his address. 5. ... must be a mistake in what you have written. 6. Is ... anything interesting on the TV programme tonight? 7. They say ... is going to be windy tomorrow. 8. ... was a dense fog that day. 9. ... was very foggy that day. 10. ... was no necessity to do it yesterday. 11. ... was not necessary to do it yesterday. 12. ... was snowing heavily all day. 13. ... was heavy snow all day. 14. While ... is life, ... is hope. 15. … is hardly time to do the packing. 16. ... is all very well to say so, but is it so really? 17. ... is most unpleasant to have eight lessons a day. 18. ... is not known where he spent his early childhood. 19. ... is a time and place for everything. 20. ... was much to be said on both sides. 21. ... is not clear who is responsible. 22. ... is a long way from the house to the tram-stop. 23. ... is time to finish the translation before we go. 24. ... is a long time since I saw such an interesting film. 25. ... is no place like home.