Word Order

Exercise l. Put the adverb at the head of the sentence.

Model: The ball fell down. Down fell the ball.

It fell down. Down it fell.

1. Tom came in. 2. A number of pears fell down. 3. The kittens jumped up. 4. He batted the balloon. It flew off purple and extravagant. 5. Eliza said good night and walked quickly away. 6. The rocket flew up. 7. They went out.

She went off into peals of laughter. 9. A shattering peal of thunder blundered overhead; and the rain came down, slashing and sluicing. 10. They came in, laughing and shouting.

Exercise 2. Put the adverb at the head of the sentence.

Model: Tom is there. There is Tom.

He i9 there. There he is.

“She goes there," said Martin. 2. Her own house was there, at the top of the hill. 3. Ah! And she was here! 4, The morning of his news came then. 5. The rest of the monkeys came here. 6. Our bus comes now! 7. My brother comes here.

“He comes here,” I said.

Exercise 3, Apply the following statements to new subjects.

Model: Arnold’s father arrived last night. — So did we.

I told her that he was not alone. — Nor was she.

She’s really been wonderful. 2. He used to come to his mother’s every day, 3. She was so gay and so natural.

1 haven’t seen him yet. 5. We met him on the stairs.

shall do anything in the world for you. 7. I never saw such a lot of people. 8. Luke was a man of action. 9. I have still had no word from them. 10. I shall be all right when I've had something to eat. 11. She’s only been here two days. 12. She doesn’t remember anything about it.

Exercise 4. Apply the following statements to the same subject.

Model: I’m sure you want to help us to get at the truth. — So I do.

I have no right to ask you anything. — No more you have.

I thought he was a very nice dentist, 2. You never thought of meeting him again. 3. You don’t want to play with me. 4. My father always used to say he was the ablest man in the party. 5. I hope you had a pleasant journey down from London. 6.1 think he might have done that. 7. You’ll be leaving us soon, I suppose. 8. I think he is a very serious person. 9. You don’t care what he thinks. 10. You might have said that before. 11. You must do exactly what you think fit. 12. I’m afraid you didn’t eat a thing.

Exercise 5. Make the sentences emphatic by using full or partial inver­sion if possible.

1. He walked round so slowly that it was clear he was seriously ill. 2. He talked so quickly that nobody could un­derstand him. 3. The radio was turned on so softly that we couldn’t hear anything. 4. He spoke to her so coolly that she got offended. 5. He plays so badly and he looks so wretched.

1. Philip was so irritated that I decided to leave him alone. 2. He felt so tired that he had to stop a taxi. 3. His voice was so sad that she felt sorry for him. 4. I’m so fright­fully nervous that I can’t do anything now, 5. She sounded so furious that Rowan looked quite startled.

1, As he was brave, as he was full of life, he was not stoical. 2. As June looked soft, there must be strength in her somewhere. 3. As Scarlett was weak, she was going home to Tara. 4. She has more sense than June, though she was a child; more wisdom. 5. The journey next day, though it was short, and the visit to his lawyer’s, tired him. 6. Ralph moaned faintly. Though he was tired, he could not relax.

1. Miss Smith was small and slight and angry. 2. He looked very ill. 3. Everyone looked so young. 4, He felt ex­traordinarily helpless. 5. She looked different and smoother, thought Nicola instantly. 6. She seemed happy, almost breath­less. 7. At the sides and back of his head his hair was thick and grey. 8. Nora felt indignant at the suggestion that she needed a nurse. 9. He looked terribly ill, I thought. 10. Aunt Ann turned her old eyes from one to the other. Her look was indulgent and severe.

1. It had never occurred to her before that she needed Melanie. 2. He had never felt George's presence without the

* Пр*»тщ»ум 10J sense of being laughed at. 3. Fleur had never been so “fine”, Holly so watchful, Val so stable-secretive, Jon so silent and disturbed. 4. She would glance up not once at the small hill where his house looked over the ocean. 5. He met June at the Smiths’ not once. 6. She did not speak until that was done.

He did not discover that he had only eighteen pence till he reached Piccadilly. 8. I could not find a pattern that indicat­ed his course of action anywhere in any of the information.

Eliza could be sure of herself only here, alone on the hill.

1. Well, I wouldn’t tell them anything if I were you.

Even if I had known the incident, it would not have occurred to me as important to mention. 3. She would have been retired if it had not been for her children. 4. If she should take him seriously, she would be forced to quarrel with him. 5. I had scarcely left home when it began to snow heavily. 6.1 had no sooner read a few pages then she called me again. 7. I had hardly entered the room when the phone rang. 8. If I saw Jack much oftener I could help him. 9- If Carlos wanted us to see him he would send a telegram.