In no time we were at 2,800 feet.

8.             Cumulative (non-homogeneous) attributes:

She ordered a rich chocolate layer cake.

9.             Restrictive elements:

The novel “War and Peace” is the longest book I’ve read.

10.             Transitions if they call for little or no pause:

Bill’s bicycle is broken; therefore you’ll need to borrow Sue’s.

 

 

Exercise 11.5. Add commas where necessary.

 

1. 1.       In the corner we found a stylish red silk gown from Sears.

2. 2.       He took after his blond father who had been a painter.

3. 3.       It was a senseless dangerous mission.

4. 4.       George who is now 26 had been an undergraduate at Cambridge where he’d studied art.

5. 5.       Drivers who think they own the road make cycling a dangerous sport.

6. 6.       Margaret Mead’s book Coming of Age in Samoa stirred up considerable controversy.

7. 7.       Perhaps I don’t quite catch your meaning Roddy.

8. 8.       Other causes of asthmatic attacks are stress change in temperature and pressure humidity and moisture and cold air.

9. 9.       Our generous hostess Miss Clarkson will no doubt come to see us off.

10. 10.   Ironically this job that appears so glamorous carefree and easy eventually carries a high degree of responsibility.

11. 11.   Immediately on arrival from the airport the chief Dr.Samuel called up a conference.

12. 12.   Sandra Barnes M.D. performed the surgery.

13. 13.   Forgive us Dr.Spock for spanking Brian our youngest son.

14. 14.   Celia unlike Robert had no loathing for dance contests.

15. 15.   Brenda was forced to rely on buses her car having been wrecked the week before.

16. 16.   Evolution so far as we know doesn’t work that way.

17. 17.   The bluefish weighed about twelve pounds give or take several ounces.

18. 18.   The second plane a huge Boeing was about to touch the runway.

 

Exercise 11.6. Analyze the sentences using proper underline.

 

1. 1.       You don’t seem to have done any great thing to yourself by going away.

2. 2.       They call the Dutch krautheads or anything else they happen to think of.

3. 3.       He never took steps to make himself liked.

4. 4.       If willing to compose the Mass, Mozart was to state the shortest time to finish it.

5. 5.       They felt it unreasonable of Ann to have left them like this without a word.

6. 6.       I remember a carter, evidently returning home, stopping his cart for his little boy to climb in.

7. 7.       Arthur, another guest, laughed softly at the thought of the Burtons looking for him.

8. 8.       The wind being favorable, our yacht is capable of reaching the island in no time.

9. 9.       This done, we, happy and satisfied, turned in profound silence toward home.

10. 10.   Unfortunately, there still had come no sign of Henry knowing anything about the question.

 

1. Make comments if the sentence has structural peculiarities (one-member, elliptical, etc.)
2. Underline:	subject	_____________ (mention if complex)
	predicate	============= (type?)
	object	- - - - - - - - - - - - (DO, IO, PO, complex)
	attribute	~~~~~~~~~ (apposition, clause, restr., nonrestr.)
	adv.modifier	_ . _ . _ . _ . _ . _ (type?)
3. Make comments about detached (what part) and parenthetical (what type) elements.

 

 

Exercise 11.7. Analyze the composite (compound or complex sentences). Identify types of the subordinate clauses.

 

1. 1.    Everything that you may want is in the wardrobe.

2. 2.    Hardly could his finish his last sentence when a great noise started.

3. 3.    He said he’d never heard of it.

4. 4.    He talked the way he’d done at lunch.

5. 5.    He was standing where he always had stood.

6. 6.    His broken wrist healed sooner than he desired.

7. 7.    However much advice you give him, he does what he wants.

8. 8.    Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, Humpty Dumpty had a great fall...

9. 9.    I consulted my father, who promised to help me.

10. 10. I had to leave at once, for whatever else could I have done?

11. 11. I know when he will come to see me.

12. 12. I tell you all this so you understand me properly.

13. 13. I was so tired that I could hardly speak.

14. 14. I’ve only seen him once since I left school.

15. 15. It seemed unfair that he should suffer more than his wife.

16. 16. Jon wondered if he had offended her.

17. 17. Our proposal is that he join in. (predicative clause)

18. 18. She loved to give, since she had plenty, and sent presents.

19. 19. That’s what he wants you to think.

20. 20. The more he reflected on the idea, the more he liked it.

21. 21. The question whether it was he or his enemy was hotly discussed.

22. 22. Unless somebody interferes, there may be a disaster.

23. 23. Whether Ms Dell be jealous or not, she is fascinated by his work.

24. 24. Whoever will move in next will need this couch more than I.

25. 25. You may go, but don’t be late for dinner.

 

Exercise 11.8. Analyze the sentences.

 

1. 1.       And am I supposed to be going down there to shoot it in the middle of the night?

2. 2.       A small motor-boat came nosing round the bay, her engine spluttering and sneezing.

3. 3.       He was beside me on the sand with a coil of rope over his arm.

4. 4.       The dolphin lay like a log, his eye turning back to watch us.

5. 5.       I'd planned for you to visit it one day but there is an objection.

6. 6.       It was perfectly possible for a man to work on an abstruse problem one day and yell his head off at a football game the next.

7. 7.       I was hardly back in my hiding place before we heard him coming back, the lights of his car growing at a terrible speed and blinding me.

8. 8.       It'll be all right. No one is likely to find it here before morning.

9. 9.       I can't stand seeing anything hurt.

10. 10.   It was a mistake for her to come. She's not supposed to go out or see people.

11. 11.   He made his way purposefully to the car and reached out a hand for me to surrender the keys.

12. 12.   I had to drive slowly, the roads being packed and the harbor boulevard teeming with people.

13. 13.   He knew his way, no doubt of that. There was not the slightest danger of his getting lost.

14. 14.   He even mentioned my not being used to right side driving.

15. 15.   It's no use, no use whatever, my going to bed. I won't sleep a wink. I know it.

16. 16.   It was quite sufficiently unpleasant as it is without you butting in.

17. 17.   The dolphin - Spiro's dolphin - was stranded on the beach and Max told them to float it again.