Вправа 9

Проаналізуйте словотвірні особливості числівників та похідних від них:

1 I believe some pictures of mine had made a great success at the time, at least had been chattered about in the penny newspapers, which is the nineteenth-century standard of immorality (O. Wilde). 2...that she would explain when she saw me, not to come to her flat but to meet her at six o'clock in the first-class waiting-room at Victoria Station (W.S. Maugham). 3 ...Gwendolen attitudinised and speechified (Eliot George). 4 Past the stall overflowing with second-hand shoes; … the small desks and chairs looking forlorn, until they reached the café near the station (S. Jackson). 5 In the twenty-first year of Darius’ reign, at about the time of winter solstice, Hystaspes summoned me to his quarters in the palace at Susa (G. Vidal). 6 It was on the ninth of November, the eve of his own thirty-eighth birthday as he often remembered afterwards (O. Wilde).

Вправа 10

Які особливості порядкових числівників проявляються в наступних прикладах?

1 You go over there with the kids to Eighth Street and wait around those cars (Th. Dreiser). 2 The city was about to pave Fifty-fifth Street (Th. Dreiser). (Пор.: ... there was another knock, and Mr Hubbard himself, the celebrated frame-maker of South Audley Street, came in with a somewhat rough-looking young assistant (O.Wilde)).

Вправа 11

Проаналізуйте комбінаторні властивості порядкових числівників у наступних прикладах:

1 Here is the first passionate love-letter I have ever written in my life (O. Wilde). 2 On March the thirtieth, spring visited her room with southwest airs, a small bowl of the first spring flowers, some pussy willows and a sprig of gorse (J. Galsworthy). 3 Then for the first of the two times in their lives he saw her cry (W. Faulkner). 4 He went to all the first nights and all the private views (W.S. Maugham). 5Jago was an English scholar, and had published articles on the first writings produced by the Puritan settlers in New England (C.P.Snow). 6 Beyond a short avenue of elms lay a park landscaped in the manner of the late eighteenth century and dotted with trees which had had space to expand into full magnificence (J. Wyndham). 7 I ... received without embarassment the Driffields’ congratulation on my clever­ness in riding a bicycle the very first day I tried (W.S. Maugham). 8 He belonged to the fine flower of the peaceful nineteenth century (C.P. Snow). 9 «Yes», answered Mrs. Gerhardt, with her first and only note of defiance (Th. Dreiser). 10 He went to all the first nights and all the private views (W.S. Maugham). 11 «A man run us away», was almost the first greeting that the perturbed George offered when the mother made her inquiry about the coal (Th. Dreiser). 12 This is only my third lesson (W.S. Maugham). 13 Madrid is probably the first and best place for the hurried traveller to visit, for it contains all Spain, like an anthology (L. Lee). 14 When I was lent my first book, by a rich old neighbour I thought she was off her head (L. Lee). 15 He had told her since that he was crazy about her on that first evening (W.S. Maugham). 16 Sebastian's first im­pulse was to jump and run...(Th. Dreiser). 17 ... we were both the inheritors, after centuries of darkness, of our country's first literate peasantry (L. Lee). 18 The Maintenon wore blue stockings, and mi­nistered to Louis the XIV-th (J. Galsworthy). 19 A moment later, Despard Smith, in clerical hat and overcoat, walked across the front of the building from the third court (C. P. Snow). 20 ...if he had been living back in the days when fathers called the shots in the matter of their daughters' marriages, would have forbidden the banns without a second thought (P.G. Wodehouse). 21 ... and don't try to persuade me that the first good action I have done for years...is really a sort of sin (O. Wilde). 22 «Yes», answered Lord Henry, dreamily, «the costume of the nineteenth century is detestable...» (O. Wilde). 23 For the first time she laughed (W.S. Maugham). 24 ... and don't try to persuade me that the first good action I have done for years...is really a sort of sin (O. Wilde) .