Exercise 5.

notional

introductory

1. It was dusky in the dining-room and quite chilly. (Mansfield) 2 The bell rang. It
was lean, pale Eddie Warren in a state of acute distress. (Mansfield) 3. Oh! Ohl Oh!
It was a little house. It was a little pink house. (Mansfield) 4. But in her bosom there
was still that bright glowing place. It was almost unbearable. (Mansfield) 5. She sat
up, but she felt quite dizzy, quite drunk. It must have been the spring. (Mansfield) 6.
It was marvelous to be made to love like that. (Prichard) 7. It is the moon that makes
you talk to yourself in that silly way. (Shaw) 8. It is very distressing to me, Sir, to give
this information. (Dickens) 9. He took the path through the fields: it was pleasanter
than the road. (Huxley) 10. If this is liberty, it isn't going to mean a thing.

Exercise 6.

1. Presently she grew tired of that and looked across at her sister. (compound
nominal, simple) (Galsworthy) 2. You shall have as many dances as you like. I
shan't dance with anyone except you End Maxim. (simple, compound verbal) (Du
Maurier) 3. Well, d'you feel any better now? (compound verbal) (Priestley) 4. Harry
was enjoying his dinner. (simple) (Mansfield) 5. Alice went on, he ought to stop
doing nothing and criticising everybody. (simple, compound verbal) (Lindsay) 6.
Everything is being taken down and used against you. (compound verbal)
(Lindsay) 7. The story will only get repeated and exaggerated. (compound
nominal) (Du Maurier) 8. But I've got to have a word with him. We got to do
something about it. (compound verbal) (Pnchard) 9. She became bitter and
unapproachable. (compound nominal) (Thorne) 10. Her marriage was more or
less fixed for the twenty-eighth of the month. They were to sail for India on
September the fifth. (simple, compound verbal) (Lawrence) 11. Leila's partner
gave a little gasping laugh. (simple) (Mansfield) 12. You are to go straight to your
room. You are to say nothing of this to anyone. (compound verbal) (De la Roche)
13. He was a country doctor. He died young. (compound nominal, simple)
(Sanborn) 14. I began to stammer my apologies. He would not listen to me.
(compound verbal) (Du Maurier). 15. To walk in this way behind him seemed to
Annette already a sufficient marvel. (simple) (Murdoch) 16. A ship — the Vestris —
is reported to be arriving at Joppa. (compound verbal) (Douglas) 17. Led was
having a little new sort of weeping fit daily or every other day. (simple) (Wescott)
18. Even now he was able to find a thin excuse for that young idiot. (compound
verbal) (Kahler) 19. Do not delay, there is'no time. Teacher Williams lies dead
already. (compound nominal, simple) (Buck) 20. The grey house had ceased to
be a home for family life. (compound verbal) (Buck) 21. Kit had. been told to do
nothing in particular. (compound verbal) (Lindsay) 22. Lately he'd made efforts to
bring the matter up with Brian or Colin. (simple) (Lindsay) 23. The sky shone pale.
(compound nominal) (Mansfield) 24. These days are finished. They are blotted
out. I must begin living all over again. (simple, compound verbal) (Du Maurier)
25. Next day, by noon, I was up and dressed, and sat wrapped in a shawl by the
nursery hearth. (simple) (Ch. Bronte) 26. And all the while he felt the presence of
Pat and had to keep on resisting the impulse to turn round. (simple, verbal
compound) (Lindsay) 27. But Abramovici remained quiet. (compound nominal)
(Heym) 28. Morning broke quiet and hushed, subdued as if holding its breath.
(compound nominal) (Abrahams) 29. There were a number of people out this
afternoon. And the band sounded louder and gayer. (compound nominal)
(Mansfield) 30. This has proved surprisingly difficult. (compound nominal)
(Murdoch)

Exercise 7.

1. Two young girls in red came by. (simple) (Mansfield) 2. Demetrius came alive and
pressed a flock of inquiries. (simples) (Douglas) 3. And in many ways along lines
you'd more or less approve, I am coming to feel the mill apart of myself. (compound
verbal and nominal) (Lindsay) 4. He tried to be both firm and friendly. I've felt
dependent on him. (compound nominal, compound verbal) (Lindsay) 5. He now
felt only a confused ache of memory and a growing desire to be home. (simple)
(Lindsay) 6. No one was there to meet Dick. He felt a twinge of disappointment.
(compound nominal, simple) (Lindsay) 7. There was a silence but not an
uncomfortable one. (compound nominal) (Braine) 8. He was vaguely aware of his
father standing by kitchen-range with his coat off. (simple) (Lindsay) 9. The day of
our wedding came. He was to cal( for me to choose the furniture. (simple,
compound verbal) (Mansfield) 10. A good reliable husband he'd make. And our
Alice is a great one for wanting a place of her own. (compound verbal, compound
nominal) (Lindsay) 11. That made all the difference. The room came alive at once.
(simples) (Mansfield) 12. "She sounds serious," Albertine insisted. "She keeps
talking about it." (compound nominal, simple, compound verbal) (Kahler) 13. Not
even her own children had seen Ma break down. She'd keep a proud face always.
(simple, compound verbal) (Mansfield) 14. My lady keeps a list of the names in a
little red book (simple) (Mansfield) 15. Charlie kept quiet. (compound nominal)
(Priestley) 16. Cedric Thompson stood a good three inches above me. (simple)
(Braine) 17. For a moment I stood aghast, peering after her shadowy figure, and
wondering what had taken her. (compound nominal) (Weyman) 18. And then they
sat silent for a few moments together. (simple) (Trollope) 19. I sat writing letters on a
piece of paper with a pencil. (simple) (Haggard) 20. And for some time he lay
gasping on a little flock mattress, rather unequally posed between this world and the
next. (simple) (Dickens) 21. After many adventures I and a little girl lay senseless in
the Bad Lands. (compound nominal) (Haggard) 22. He seemed glad to see me.
(compound verbal) (Du Maurier) 23. At that moment everything in her life seemed
to be a source of desperate anxiety. (compound verbal) (Murdoch) 24. You can
smile away till you split your cheek, but you still got to do a day's work to earn a
day's wages. Apples don't grow on monkey-trees. (compound verbal, simple and
compound verbal, simple) (Lindsay) 25. She grew to know the two elderly men
better than any other member of Eden's family. (compound verbal) (London) 26.
Yates grew impatient. (compound nominal) (Heym) 27. She turned once more to
Mr. Godfrey. (simple) (Collins) 28. Gwendolen turned pink and pale during this
speech. (simple) (Eliot) 29. Mr. Bruff remained to dinner, and stayed through the
evening. (simple) (Collins) 30. Michelangelo remained silent. (compound nominal)
(Stone) 31. I gave up the attempt and went upstairs to unpack. (simple) (Braine) 32.
Michelangelo's knees went weak. He sat down on his bed. (simples) (Stone) 33. I
looked at the photograph above the mantelpiece and saw my own lace for the first
time. (simple) (Braine) 34. Giovanni looked crestfallen. (compound nominal)
(Stone) 35. He was beginning to sound really angry. (compound verbal) (Murdoch)

Exercise 9.

1. Annette was completely dazed. (participle II) (Murdoch) 2. Their highest concept
of right conduct, in his case, was to get a job. (infinitive phrase) (London) 3. I'm five
foot eleven in my socks. (numeral) (Braine) 4. Sally, herself, was quite content for
a while to enjoy becoming acquainted with her son, washing and feeding him, taking
him for walks in thej bush, singing him to sleep. (adjective) (Prichard) 5. Mr. de Morfe
was as; generous and hail-fellow-well-met with them as ever.' (comparison
phrase) (Prichard)\ 6. I am cold. And I always was such a one for being warm.»
(adjective, pronoun) (Mansfield) 7. Your resemblance to your mother is very
striking.] (gerund) (Murdoch) 8. He did not answer. I was aware again of that
feeling] of discomfort. (verbs) (Du Maurier) 9. I hated myself. My question had been
degrading, shameful. (verb, adjective) (Du Maurier) 10. Their interests were' hers
as well as the interests of everybody. (pronoun) (Prichard) 11. He's a good chap. He
makes you feel it's worth while being alive. I(noun, infinitive construction, adjective)
(Lindsay) 12. Arrived here, his first act was to kneel down on a| large stone beside
the row of vessels, and to drink a copious draught from one of them. (infinitive)
(Lindsay) 13. Either course seemed unthinkable, without any connection with
himself. (adjective) (Lindsay) 14. The nightmare of my life has come true. We are in
danger of our lives. We are white people in a Chinese city. (verb, nouns) (Buck) 15.
The best thing is for you to move in with me and let the young lady stay with your
mother. (infinitive construction) (Abrahams) 16. But she was herself again, brushing
her tears away. (pronoun) (Lindsay) 17. The rest of the time was yours. (pronoun)
(Douglas) 18. How do you feel physically? (verb) (Ch. Bronte] 19. Who are you?
(pronoun) (Shaw) 20. The Irish are a philosophic as well as a practical race. Their
first and strongest impulse is to make the best of a bad situation. (phrase
comparison, infinitive) (Dreiser)