Exercise 22. Name the parts of the sentence introduced by the prepositions with or without.

1. Steger was beside himself with fear.

2. Basil, let us have something iced to drink, something with strawberries in it.

3. She continued silent, leaning back, her smile now glowing with all its insolence.

4. His friend Francesco was a nineteen year-old youth, a head taller than himself, with hay-coloured hair and alert blue eyes.

5. Without beauty of feature or elegance of form, she pleased. Without youth and its gay graces, she cheered.

6. Mr. Godfrey’s fine eyes filled with tears.

7. The paths were moist and the grass was wet with dew.

8. There were villas with iron fences and big overgrown gardens and ditches with water flowing and green vegetable gardens with dust on her leaves.

9. My Anna is worth two of her, with all her beauty and talent.

10. He was standing now with the waves breaking at his feet.

Exercise 23. Point out the detached parts of the sentence and name them.

1. Now their laughter joined together, seized each other and held close, harmoniously, intertwined through each other’s fabric and substance.

2. Huckleberry Finn was there, with his dead cat.

3. We reached the station, with only a minute or two to spare.

4. Blind and almost senseless, like a bird caught in a snare, he still heard the sharp slam of the door.

5. As he strode along he was conscious, within himself, of a deep, pervading sense of power.

6. With his hands by his sides, he strolled very slowly and inconspicuously, down the border.

7. One summer, during a brief vacation at Knocke, his visit had come to the notice of Harrington Brande.

8. We are very poor, sir, with many mouths to feed, and these fish would make a good meal for us.

9. Unbelievingly, his eyes fixed, lips tightly compressed, Brande stared at the advancing youth.

10. He remembered her brave and hardy, with a small-boned eager face, enriched with weather and living.

11. The girls had met and were strolling, arm in arm, through the rose arbor.

12. Stout, middle-aged, full of energy, clad in a grease-stained dark blue print dress … she bustled backwards and forwards from the kitchen to the dining-room.

13. She had become very drab and unattractive, with all the hard work, no doubt.

14. But, for all that, they had a very pleasant walk.

15. George, who is now twenty-six, had been an undergraduate at Cambridge.

Exercise 24. Point out 1) the parenthetic words and phrases and 2) name their modal meaning:

1. In the morning, however, there was a comforting excitement in leaving the train.

2. May be, after all, there was something in that wild idea of hers.

3. They gave him, in fact, a pleasant feeling of vicarious fatherhood.

4. Nicholas, unfortunately, had passed an unquiet night.

5. Nevertheless, despite this reasoning there remained in the Consul’s breast that strange sense of jealousy.

6. How fortunate to have such a reliable couple in the house. Naturally, he counted on the Burtons as an official standby.

7. I am a human being, sir, and must take advantage of my opportunities. Frankly, I am accustomed to good wine.

8. He was surprised, evidently, to find Sally so much at home and bustling about like that.

9. She was quite unconcerned, as a matter of fact, about being left alone in the camp.

10. Perhaps her colonial upbringing had something to do with it.

11. It was still too early for his ride, but he did not go back to bed, he wasn’t deeply worried, to be sure, but he knew that he wouldn’t be able to sleep.