Вправа 12

Визначте синтаксичну функцію порядкових числівників у таких реченнях:

1 Не wrote a second novel (W.S. Maugham). 2 Just before she married, begin­ning to lose her first freshness, she had looked tired and drawn (W.S. Maugham). 3 Darius always preferred gold to glory - no doubt on the excellent ground that the first can always buy the second (G. Vidal). 4 And, certainly, to him Life itself was the first, the greatest, of the arts, and for it all the other arts seemed to be but a preparation (O. Wilde). 5 «Yes», answered Lord Henry, dreamily, «the costume of the nineteenth century is detestable...» (O. Wilde). 6For the first time she laughed (W.S. Maugham). 7 … the American and English reading public followed suit and bought so many copies that Martin compelled the conservative house of Singletree, Darnley and Co. to pay a flat royalty of twenty-five per cent, for a third book, and thirty per cent flat for a fourth.(J. London). 8 … the American and English reading public followed suit and bought so many copies that Martin compelled the conservative house of Singletree, Darnley and Co. to pay a flat royalty of twenty-five per cent, for a third book, and thirty per cent flat for a fourth (J. London). 9 But her third husband, Lord Henry! You don’t mean to say Ferrol is the fourth? (O. Wilde). 10 If I don’t hear by the tenth of each month, I’m going to give the detective the word (W. Faulkner). 11 But two are dead and the third is sickly (G. Vidal).

Вправа 13

Складіть 6-7 речень із порядковими числівниками у різних синтаксичних функціях.

Вправа 14

Визначте лексико-семантичний клас опорного іменника при порядковому числівнику:

1 «You knew his first wife, didn't you? (W.S. Maugham). 2 His third book was a failure (J. London). 3 He was finishing his second glass of sherry (C.P. Snow). 4 Your first thought when you looked at the Mother Superior was that as a girl she must have been beautiful... (W.S. Maugham). 5 Before the end of the first fortnight he was so deeply in love that it was impossible for him to think of his life except as bound up with Gwendolen's (George Eliot). 6 The distance to the Senator’s room was only a short way along the hall of the second floor (Th. Dreiser). 7 In the eighteenth century it had been worth exactly the same figure... (C.P. Snow). 8 It was the end of June, the twenty-eighth, and the days were long (W.S. Maugham). 9Then, on the tenth day of November, Denny unexpectedly rang him up (A.J. Cronin). 10 A notice came round, summoning a college meeting for a Monday, the first Monday of full term (C.P. Snow). 11Born in the kingdom of Saxony, he had had character enough to opose the army conscription iniquity, and to flee, in his eighteenth year, to Paris (Th. Dreiser). 12 ... on the morning of his twenty-seventh birthday he waked and looked down his bordy toward his foreshortened feet...(W. Faulkner). 13 A copy of the third edition of The St. Jame's Gazette had been placed on the tea-tray (O. Wilde). 14It's the frontispiece in the third volume of the edition de luxe (W.S. Maugham). 15 It was a novel experience to find himself headlined, on the first page at that... (J. London). 16 It was not till the third day that he ventured to go out (O. Wilde). 17 Her watch had been pawned a second time ... (Th. Dreiser).