7. A) Classify the following italicized homonyms. Use Professor a.I. Smirnitsky's classification system.

1. a) He should give the ball in your honour as the bride, b) The boy was playing with a ball.

2. a) He wished he could explain about his left ear. b) He left the sentence unfinished.

3. a) I wish you could stop lying. b) The yellow mouse was still dead, lying as it had fallen in the crystal clear liquid.

4. a) This time, he turned on the light, b) He wore ft 300 suits with light ties and he was a man you would instinctively trust anywhere.

5. a) When he's at the door of her room, he sends the page ahead, b) Open your books at page 20.

6. a) Crockett's voice rose for the first time, b) I'll send you roses, one rose for each year of your life.

7. a) He was bound to keep the peace for six months, b) You should bound your desires by reason.

8. a) The pain was almost more than he could bear, b) Catch the bear before you sell his skin.

9. a) To can means to put up in airtight tins or jars for preservation, b) A man can die but once.

b) Explain homonyms which form the basis for the following jokes. Classify the types as in part a).

1. An observing man claims to have discovered the colour of the wind. He says he went out and found it blew.

2. Child: Mummy, what makes the Tower of Pisa lean?

Fat mother: I have no idea, dear, or I'd take some myself.

3. Advertisement: "Lion tamer wants tamer lion."

4. Father: Didn't I tell you not to pick any flowers without leave?

Child: Yes, daddy, but all these roses had leaves.

5. Diner: Waiter, the soup is spoiled.

Waiter: Who told you that?

Diner: A little swallow.

6. The difference between a cat and a comma is that a cat has its claws at the end of its paws, and a comma has its pause at the end of a clause.

7. A canner exceedingly canny

One morning remarked to his granny:

"A canner can can anything that he can.

But a canner can't can a can, can'e?"

8. Find perfect homonyms in the following sentences and translate them into Russian. State whether they are complete or partial, lexical or lexical-grammatical homonyms.

1. Colin managed to slighter on the bank.

He was worried by the perfect storm of wildcat money which was floating about and which was constantly coming to his bank.

2. They will sack you as soon as things slacken.

We're going to take a sack of coal.

I shall be obliged to get my breakfast and morning-draught of sack from the old Jacobite ladies.

3. His heart thudded so fast.

He who feasts till he is sick, must fast till he is well.

4. They took up a lot of small fry.

It’s a shame to fry an egg as fresh as that one.

5. You had to walk about fifty yards along the street in front.

They were playing in the back yard.

6. The little boy was still out.

Still waters have deep bottoms.

7. He went out again to the sink.

He saw the sun sink beyond the horizon.

8. Mabel began to find out what a mean old rogue he is.

What I mean is that he strikes me as a man who has gone to the bottom of things.

9. All agreed that to drink of the waters of the well was ominous to the descendants of that house.

All is well that ends well.

10. Here they found tea laid out for them.

He had always had a strong desire to found home.