Ex 11. Replace the of-phrase

1. The knife of our.

2 The order of the commander-in-chiefs

3. The house of mister Fox.

4.The novels of Dickens.

5 The ball of the boys.

6. The life of a bachelor.

7. The works of Marx

8. The dress of a lady

9. A meeting of students

10. The flat of my mother-in-law

11. The light of women

1. A distance of two miles

2. The crew of the ship

3. The theatres of Hanoi

4. An interval of three hours

5. The oil deposits of the world

6. The rays of the sun

7. The population of England

8. The joys of life

9. For the sake of convenience.

I. The mother of Mary and Ann

2. The fathers of Peter and John

3. The poems of Byron and Shelley

4 The children of my sister Irene.

5. The speech of the Minister of Foreign affairs

6. The times of Peter the Great.

Ex.12. Comment on the use of the possessive case in the following sentences:

1 Agnes was at her wit's end.

2 Since his illness, however, he had abandoned this attempt to get twenty-four hours' work out of each day.

3 The Radicals' real supporters were the urban classes.

Ex.13 Replace the prepositional groups by the possessive case where possible.

1 The teacher drew the attention of the students to the peculiarity of the style of the author.

2 Before I could say a word, the sound of carriage wheels was heard

3 The girl was nicely dreamed for the ceremony of the evening.

4 He did want to hurt the feeling of the girl.

5 There was a spot of ink on the table cloth.

Assignment “The Verb”

Points for discussion.

1. What is the verb?

2. Aspect and character of the verb.

3. The problem of English tenses.

4. Mood and tense.

5. Hierarchy of verbal categories.

6. Verbals: tense and correlation.

Ex.1 Identifying tense and modal verbs

1. A number of men wanted to marry her because she could hunt.

2. I have my portable telephone on my bed all the time.

3. He wondered when it would stop.

4. This machine doesn’t take nickels.

5. I brought some beer home because he likes beer.

6. We have as head of the country a very ill old man who should go out in peace.

7. The judge may be mistaken in his judgment of what the legislature would have chosen.

Ex.2 Identifying perfect and progressive aspect

1. The guards had found a note.

2. For nearly a year , the Zarian president has been living just down the road.

3. I think now I might be going to San Diego this weekend.

4. Vecco’s family has lived since 1969 in the spacious apartment that has become the ultimate room with a view.

5. Well you could have used the meat pot.

6. Carla had decided to major in psychology and had been giving all of us frequent free analysis.

7. I think it was hotter today – I was sweating all day.

8. At that point, Ritchie had been sitting in one of the 8-feet-by-8-feet rooms foe about five hours.

9. He is young enough to be in his prime and old enough to have acquired the necessary experience at both baseball and life.

10. But he was just saying that he doesn’t want a reward.

Ex.3 Identifying active and passive voice.

1. They said the Lincoln Bedroom was used only sporadically for family members and close friends.

2. In Burma these days, wild elephants are captured and used for forced labor.

3. As is shown in Figure 15, a considerable amount of waste crosses State lines.

4. I flew from New York to Uganda, where I settled among black people with the same assumptions of welcome and kindness I had taken for Granted in Georgia. I was taken on rides down the Nile as a matter of course, and accepted all invitations to dinner, where the best local dishes were superbly prepared in my honor. I became, in fact, a lost relative of the people, whose ancestors had foolishly strayed, long ago, to America.

5. Currently, assistance can only be resumed when the president certifies that the country has returned to a democratically elected government.

Ex.4 Tense, aspect and voice combinations.

A statue depicting three suffragists is to be placed in the Capitol Rotunda shortly, a move that was supposed to end years of controversy. But just as the statue was to be moved, the controversy heated up. Now a group of black women leaders are opposed to the move because the statue does not include Sojourner Truth a leading black abolitionist and 19^th-century feminist. The statue, titled “Portrait Monument” , was donated to Congress in 1921 by the National Women’s Party, the party that won women’s right to vote. After it briefly was displayed in the Rotunda, the statue was banished to a storeroom. Lately, it has been housed in the Capitol Crypt, one floor below the Rotunda. Two years ago female members of Congress pushed to relocate the statue to the Rotunda. After several unsuccessful tries, Congress voted last September to make the move.