Additional exercises:

1. Choose the correct word:

1. My (sole, soul) is dark — Oh! Quickly string

The harp! (eye, I) yet can brook (too, to, two) (here, hear);

And let thy gentle fingers fling

Its melting murmurs (o'er, oar, or) mine ear.

If in this (heart, hart) a hope (bee, be) (deer, dear),

That sound shall charm it forth again;

If in these eyes (their, there) lurk a (tier, tear),

'Twill (flow, floe), and cease to burn my brain.

2. I bring fresh showers (four, fore, for) the thirsting (flours, flowers),

From the (seas, seize) and the streams;

I (bare, bear) light shade from leaves when (laid, lade)

In their noonday dreams.

3. A wind came up out of the (see, sea)

And said, "O mists, make room for me,"

It (haled, hailed) the ships, and cried: " (Sale, sail) on,

Ye mariners, the (knight, night) is gone."

4. Oh, why don't you (prey, pray)

To the Good Lord for (bred, bread)?

How can I (pray, prey)

To a God that is dead!

5. In a (week, weak) another order followed — (no, know) (won, one) was (aloud, allowed) to walk down the (main, mane) (isle, aisle) coming to or from work. (St.)

2. State the meaning and origin of the perfect homonyms. Translate them into Russian.

1. Date, long, perch, mean, school, full, band, carp, mess, policy, tense, skate, pulse, launch, exact, compound, boot, bat, miss, pupil, mood.

2. Can, repair, may, pool, gin, wake, count, staple, rash, like, angle, blow, host.

3. Bark, beetle, bill, dock, hide, lay, down, fast, duck, fit, moor, march, race, rail, rock, spell.

4. Bound, pile, port, litter, sound, tick.

3. Transcribe the following homographs. State their different meanings and use them in sentences of your own.

Lead, compact, slough, row, lower, invalid, buffet, polish, bass, desert.

4. Find homophones in the following sentences. State to what parts of speech they belong.

1. The advancing tide rolled nearer than usual to the foot of the crags. In the same way his other articles were tied up with the other leading San Francisco paper.

2. About life and the book he knew more than they. Alice and Pat were rather like new acquaintances

3. We used to have street parties and banners across the road. He rode up to the little wicket of Alice’s garden.

4. The dogs stood aloof and bayed loudly. He bade them all farewell.

5. At school he'd won first prize. The only way they can beat us is by making us turn on one another.

6. The scene was worthy of an artist’s pencil. There was laughter in the heart of Sam Du Plessis and it was to be seen in his eyes

7. Ravenswood answered this observation with a cold and distant assent. They divided into two groups so as to move with more rapidity and make the ascent on the hill by dusk.

8. The funeral rites were always considered as a period of festival to the living. The Marchioness writes in this fashion.

9. Mrs. Grawley made an expedition into England, leaving behind her little son upon the Continent, under the care of the French maid.

10. You will hardly see them in any public place without a shabby companion with a dyed silk, sitting somewhere in the shade close behind them. But no Forsyte had as yet died; they took precautions against it.

11. All night long he paced the room. They were not actual diamonds. They were the very brightest paste and shone prodigiously.