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Grammar Tasks

1. Put the verbs in brackets into the correct form.

  1. He __________(can not) _________(to tell) Mrs. Mallow – or at least he ___________(to suppose), excellent man, he _________(can not) – that she __________(to be) the one beautiful reason he _________ never ________(to marry).

  2. The Mallows, at Carrara Lodge, __________(to be) within ten minutes, and the studio there _________(to be) on their little land, to which they ________(to add), in their happy faith, for building it.

  3. His one worry __________(to be) that Lance – to which they _________(to shorten) his godson – was, in spite of a public school, perhaps a shade too Italian.

  4. The Master’s sole regret that he ___________(not to bear) rather to the brush than to the chisel sprang from his wish that he might _________(to contribute) to that collection.

  5. “Do you think he___________(to go) _________(to be) another Master?”

  6. Lance, who ____________(to remain) on the sofa with his legs out and his hands in his pockets, __________(to watch) him with eyes that __________(to show) suspicion.

  7. There __________(to be) so much too many things in this question ___________(to answer) at once that they practically ___________(to check) the discussion.

  8. Peter, when this lady _________(to look) at him with accusatory affection – a grace on her part not infrequent – __________(can) never ________ (to find) a word; but the Master, who _________(to be) always all amenity and tact, _________(to help) him out now as he ________often ________(to help) him before.

  9. The room in which they _________(to sit) _________(to be) adorned with sundry specimens of the Master’s genius.

  10. The occasion __________(to be) one of those he _______ long ago _______(to learn) _________(to know) and _________(to name) – short flickers of the faint flame, soft gusts of a kinder air.

2. Choose the correct pronoun.

  1. Such a triumph had its honour even for a man of other triumphs – a man who had reached fifty, who had escaped marriage, who had lived without his / him means, who had been in love with Mrs. Mallow for years without breathing it, and who, last but not least, had judged him / himself once for all.

  2. His victory, however, as I have intimated, in regard to these productions, was not simply in his not having let it out that he deplored them; it was, remarkably, in his / he not having kept it in by anything else.

  3. He had of course before long to meet the boy him / himself on it and to hear that practically everything was settled.

  4. Lance would have been like his / him father, to his friend’s sense, had he had less humour, and like his / her mother had he had more beauty.

  5. “Then you want mine / I / me to stay at home?”

  6. The room in which they sat was adorned with sundry specimens of the Master’s genius, which had the merit of being, as Mrs. Mallow her / herself / sheself frequently suggested, of an unusually convenient size.

  7. They [statues] formed, like the Mallows themselves / themself / theirselves, poor Brench’s own family – having at least to such a degree the note of familiarity.

  8. Twice a year regularly the Master believed in his / him fortune, in addition to believing all the year round in himself / his genius.

  9. “We’ll drink to the health of the absent, but we must hope he’s preparing herself / himself / him for a happiness much less like this of ours / our/ us this evening.”

  10. “The comfort,” the Master explained, leaning back in the pleasant lamplight and firelight, holding up his glass and looking round at his marble family, quartered more or less, a monstrous brood, in every room – “the comfort of art in it / itself / himself!”