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. Except for the handwriting, there wasn’t the slightest trace of feminity.

2. I was sitting at a box table writing letters, in a tent near the beach at Buna.

3. For some reason, she seemed to hate first base.

4. She was a tall girl, as tall as himself.

5. Up to a year ago, Richard Abernathie’s will was very simple.

6. Daylight was dying, the moon rising, gold behind the poplars.

7. Slowly, very slowly, she went out of the room.

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

9. There were two fingers, middle-aged and young.

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

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. “God gracious, how my poor head is vexed and worried by that girl Jupe’s so perseveringly asking about her tiresome litters!”

3. “That’s very good for you,” said Dinny, icily, “but the harm is done, Professor.”

4. To tell the truth, I am not dead sure you manage to accept his proposal.

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

6. I suppose he will have started the travel before she returns home.

7. “I am afraid I have been making an awful simpleton of myself”, she said shyly.

8. “My lord, I have not been sleeping” said Miss Meadows.

9. Oh, now I understand she is really English.

10. I am sure you haven’t done it no purpose – to stimulate our curiosity.

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 lighted his cigarette, said good night, and went away.

2. She can graduate from the university in May or June.

3. The children sold tomatoes, onions and okra from a roadside stand.

4. All the scenes, characters and events of this book must contribute to the total effect.

5. I know him and her very well.

6. John and Sammy wrestled until fell to the door.

7. Our children are fond of skiing and skating in winter.

8. At the same time in artistic and intellectual circles in the fourteenth century, the Greek optimism was renewed with its emphasis on human reason.

9. It will be where we social animals will sell, trade, invest, haggle, pick and meet new people.

10. Thousands of sheets must be printed, dried, cut.

4. A) Rewrite the sentences adding capital letters, commas, full stops and question marks where it’s necessary.

Model: it is my birthday in june i would like a book by Charles dickens. – It is my birthday in June, and I would like a book by Charles Dickens.

1. one of michelangelo’s finest sculptures the colossal david stands in a special museum in florence.

2. mozart’s famous opera the marriage of figaro was written in 1786.

3. we recognized him to be a leader of men so we hired him to do the job.

4. whe instructor said be sure you read the chapter titled economic reform in the class text.

5. the american civil war was fought between the north and the south.

6. the well-known missionary david livingstone became lost in the jungles of africa.

7. mozart the great composer died when he was only thirty-five.

8. i was really obliged to laugh and gilbert laughed too.

9. doris and ginny progressed slowly up the street toward their own homes stopping to turn back.

10. you see i had been in the navy and when i retired i was forty-nine.

b) Add the correct punctuation marks to the story.

on 21 august 1911 leonardo da vinci’s mona lisa one of the most famous paintings in the world was stolen from the louvre. it was such an in conceivable crime, that nobody had even noticed it until the following day.

about 60 investigators arrived at the louvre to find out how the criminals had stolen the famous paintings. rumors and theories about the identity and the emotive of the theft spread like wildfire. Some people believed that the mona lisa had been stolen to show how bad the louvre was protecting the masterpieces. others suggested that the thief was going to blackmail the government to get money for it.

in the autumn of 1913 a well-known dealer alfredo geri placed an advertisement in several italian newspapers. after he had placed an ad geri received a letter which stated that the writer was in possession of the stolen mona lisa. geri had informed the police about the letter before he got in touch with its author.