16. Getting known. At last I bought the dog for thirty shillings.

It is a simple, two-member, extended, complete, declarative sentence.

“I” is the subject of the sentence, which is expressed by personal pronoun in Nominative Case the first form, Singular.

“bought” is the simple verbal predicate, which is expressed by finite form of the verb “to buy” in Past Simple, Active voice.

“dog” is the direct object of the sentence, which is expressed by simple class noun in Common Case, Singular.

“at last” is the adverbial modifier of time, which is expressed by adverb of time and preposition “at”.

“for thirty shillings” is the preposition attribute o the direct object “dog”, which is expressed by prepositional phrase.

17. Year day. She wanted to sell me advertising insurance.(она хотела продать мне страховку рекламного характера)

It is a simple, two-member, extended, complete, declarative sentence.

“She” is the subject of the sentence, which is expressed by personal pronoun in Nominative case, 3rd form, Singular,

“wanted to sell” is the compound verbal predicate, which is expressed by finite form of the verb “to want” in Past Simple, Active voice and infinitive “to sell”,

“me” is indirect object, which is expressed by personal pronoun in objective case,

“insurance” is direct object, which is expressed by abstract noun,

“advertising” is prepositive attribute to the direct object “insurance”, which is expressed by participle 1

18. A sad story. So I made thirty or forty funny drawings everyday and sent them to the papers.

It is a simple, two-member, extended, complete, declarative sentence.

“I” is the subject of the sentence, which is expressed by personal pronoun in Nominative Case the first form, Singular.

“made and sent” are homogeneous simple verbal predicate, which are expressed by the finite form of the verb “to make” and the verb “to sent” in Past Simple, Active voice, Indicative mood,

“them” is direct object, which is expressed by personal pronoun in the objective case,

“every day” is adverbial modifier of frequency, which is expressed by prepositional phrase,

“so” is parentheses of the sentence.

“thirty or forty” is prepositive attribute to the noun drawings which is expressed by cardinal numeral.

“funny” is prepositive attribute to the noun drawings which is expressed by simple qualitative adjective in positive degree.

“ drawings” is direct object which is expressed by Participle I, singular.

19. At dover. It is difficult to dine endlessly opposite somebody without making a few polite sounds.

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It is a simple, two-member, extended, complete, declarative sentence.

“It to dine endlessly” is complex subject, which is expressed by infinite construction,

“is difficult” is compound nominal predicate, which is consist of the link verb “to be” in Present Simple, Singular and predicative “difficult”, which is expressed by simple qualitative adjective in Positive degree,

“opposite somebody” is adverbial modifier of place,

“without making sounds” is adverbial modifier of manner, which is expressed by prepositional phrase,

“few” is preposition attribute to the word “sounds”, which is expressed by indefinite pronoun,

“polite” is prepositive attribute to the word “sounds”, which is expressed by simple qualitative adjective in Positive degree.