1. Specify on the ssm based on Compression.

1. «Give me an example», I said quietly. «Of something that means some­thing. In your opinion». (T. Capote)

2. «Не never tired of their (pictures) presence, they represented a substantial saving in death duties. (G. Greene)

3. Bicket did not answer his throat felt too dry. (J. Galsworthy)

4. «For all you know, you're making – I honestly think you're making a mountain» – (J. Salinger)

4. «Made me mad», he ended lamely. (Ph. Turner)

4. «I do think of her – bless her. If I didn't» – Stephen had laid his hand on Maggie's that rested on his arm, and they both felt it difficult to speak. (G. Eliot)

5. A black February day. Clouds hewn of ponderous timber weighing down on the earth... (S. Lewis)

6. His forehead was narrow, his face wide, his head large, and his nose all on one side. (Ch. Dickens)

2. Identify the ssm based on Recurrence.

1. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same, and Linton's is as different as a moonbeam from lightning, or frost from fire. (E. Bronte) ...

1. You don't understand. No one you have really loved has died. You just don't understand. (P. Woodford)

2. He went without any tie at all. He went without dinner on Fri­days. (W. Thackery)

3. I could have cried with exhaustion and anger and want of sleep. (Gr. Greene)

4. Then she would be wanted by the children. She would crawl under the bureau on her hands and knees to find a sock for Toby. She would lie flat on her belly and wiggle under the bed. (J. Cheever)

5. They drove on in silence; but it was a silence that reverberated like thunder in her brain. (E. Glasgow)

6. I wake up and I'm alone, and I walk round Warlley and I'm alone, and I talk with people and I'm alone. (J. Braine)

7. Tolstoy should have lived in a small country – not in Russia, which was a continent rather than a country. (Gr. Greene)

8. She wasn't a very observant girl, Sybil... (I. Shaw)

9. He who had met his love but yesterday, and won her but that morn­ing, and now saw all his hopes break in a moment like a piece of glass. (R. Stevenson)

3. Keep the conversation going using False Anadiplosis and the counterargu­ments to make the utterance complete.

Model: I'm glad you've heard the truth at last.

The truth? All I heard was your opinions. (P. Woodford)

1. She's after that bedroom suite. With you in the bed.

1. You don't care about your mother.

2. He'll expect you to marry him.

3. Where do we find towels?

4. I think you are exaggerating.

4. Read the sentences in which the ssm grouped under Inversion are used. Define the type of the inversions.

1. Misanthropes, we believed ourselves to be; but I have thought since that we were only sulky fellows. (R. Stevenson)

1. Soft, rigid, I lay. (P. Woodford)

2. I dropped the banana skin on the pavement,

I put my foot on it, and down I went. (L Hartley)

4. To change is to live, (...) to live is to change and not to change is to die. (T. Williams)

4. Written in ink, in German, in a small, hopelessly sincere handwriting were the words «Dear God, life is hell». (J. Salinger)

4. Only to the eyes of a Kennicot was it (Gopher Prairie) excep­tional. (S. Lewis)

7. Of all my old association, of all my old pursuits and hopes, of all the liv­ing and the dead world, this one poor soul alone comes natural to me. (Ch. Dickens)

8. On, on he wandered, night and day, beneath the blazing sun, and the cold pale moon. . . (Ch.. Dickens)

9. I have seen roses damask'd, red and white, ... (W. Shakespeare)

10. A lot of good may it do you. (G. Greene)

11. 1 know the world and the world knows me. (Ch. Dickens)