2. A) Point out the attribute. Define its type and say what it is expressed by.

Model: I have no intention of going there. – “of going there” – is an postpositive attribute expressed by the gerundial phrase.

1. Horn made him a sign to come on to the verandah.

2. This is my brother’s tennis racket.

3. She lives in a new house of modern construction.

4. I am not in the habit of reading other people’s letters.

5. The sky above us was the colour of ever-changing violet.

6. When we returned to the street, light form the kitchen windows had filled the areas.

7. The career of our play brought us through the dark muddy lanes behind the house.

8. It was not a matter to be discussed even with a guide and friend so near and trusted as the Professor.

9. Placing the fifty-pound note upon the letter Lally carefully folded them together.

10. There came a girl with a face beautiful and attractive.

b) Point out the apposition and define its type.

Model: They, the professors, were right in their literary judgment. – ‘the professor’ is a loose (detached) apposition.

1. But the doctor – a family physician well passed middle age – was not impressed.

2. One of our numbers, a round faced, curly haired little man of about forty, glared at him aggressively.

3. Lieutenant Gregg had disappeared to some office in back and did not return.

4. Mark had quite forgotten that it was August, 31 – his last day.

5. He was an unpleasant smooth young man who lived in the country with his Uncle Marius.

6. What he had to find, or not to find, was an alternative suspect to himself.

7. The poacher, or whoever it was, had witnessed the first murder.

8. Solicitor Corphew will not be satisfied with their decision.

9. All those letters - George’s letters and Jones’ letters to them both – was lying around the study.

10. I asked Miss Grey, my neighbor and a friend of mine, to have dinner with me.

3. A) Find the detached parts of the sentence and name their functions. Translate the sentences into Ukrainian.

Model: These preparations happily completed, I bought a little farm. – is a detached adverbial modifier. Коли усі приготування були успішно завершені, я купила невеличку ферму.

1. It was a white building, one story high.

2. A silver tray was brought, with German plums.

3. Dumb with amazement, Mr. Grandgrind crossed to the spot where his family was thus disgraced.

4. The crowd was now in constant uproar, yelling, gesticulating, beseeching and reviling with Latin intensity.

5. Nicholas lay there, his brow still contracted, filled with perplexity and confusion.

6. In her excitement, Maris jammed the bedroom-door together.

7. Because of my age, I could not be persecuted.

8. Anybody else, except Alice, would have taken the goddam hint.

9. Slowly, very slowly, she went.

10. Very white, he turned back to the balcony.

b) Point out the independent elements and say what they are expressed by.

Model: How, by the way, are you going to manage it? – ‘by the way’ – is a parenthetical phrase.

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

2. Her grandmother, alas, is worse.

3. How, by the way, are you going to manage it?

4. In my opinion, she’ll not enter the Institute this year.

5. Quite frankly, I’m almost certain she took it.

6. “Oh, you are here then?” said the secretary.

7. Naturally. He counted on the Burtons as an official standby.

8. “Well, Huddlestone, what do you say to that?” asked Northmour, turning to the bed.

9. That was, so speak, another gift from Warley.

10. I belive, he will do all his best.

c) Find homogeneous parts in the following sentences name their functions and say what they are expressed by.

Model: Every day she must tidy up the flat, cook dinner and look after her children. – ‘must tidy up, cook, look after’ is a compound verbal predicate with homogeneous parts expressed by the bare infinitives.

1. He was walking on before him so lightly and so erect.

2. The Dictator had not come to attack, but to observe…

3. The ship was loaded with wheat, barley and maize.

4. He sat up in the chair and adjusted an eyeglass.

5. The Captain was mostly concerned about himself, his own comfort, his own safety.

6. The room was clean, bright and empty.

7. My parents paid my tuition at Lakeside and gave me money for books.

8. All poets adore explosions, thunderstorms, tornadoes and ruins.

9. It is quite true that the artist, painter, or writer starts always with an experience that is a kind of discovery.

10. There are some useful strategies that effective readers use to make connections, identify patterns and sort out the levels of ideas.