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2. Analyze the sentences and state the semantic types of sentences they can be referred to: · I struck a match and examined the two massive doors. They were impenetrable (J. Fowles). · The walls were whitewashed and the ceilings were twelve or fourteen feet in height (P. Taylor). · The great turkey dance went on for nearly two hours. Wine and more wine, food and more food (R. J. Waller). · What a god-awful place. It smells (J. Fowles). · Oh, that is the light in which you view it (Ch. Bronte). · There was only one showing of the lion's claws (J. Fowles). · And for a moment he wanted to run, to ride the shadow somewhere, antwhere. Antwgere that had a warn sun and simple ways (R. J. Waller). · Adele is not answerable for either her mother's faults or yours (Ch. Bronte). · The voice had sounded familiar, but I knew it wasn't Caroline's (P. Taylor). · Apparently there had been few, if any, improvements or alterations since the time they were built (P. Taylor). 3. Analyze the sentences and comment on the relations between the syntactic and semantic structures in them: · Words are like gods. They are widely accepted as means of creation (C. Laird). · Speaking makes a ready man; writing makes a careful man (F. Bacon). · He did nothing but smile, a bitter, cunning, tell – you-nothing smile (T. Chamales). · His voice was full and manly. He told a story well. He was never dull (S.Maugham). · It's the silences that hurt (R. Kipling). · Once upon a time a whale was eating fishes (R. Kipling). · She watched him pale-facedly (J. Galsworthy). · As he did so there was a cry, an exclamation (J. Fowles). · A phone call to the Yard and two hours wait had taken care of the problem (E. George). · She knew she was marrying a loser (A. Hoffman). 2. State the structural type of the following sentences: · Mysteriously joyful, she went to open the door (A. Carter). · The spring came richly and the hills lay deep in grass (J. Steinbeck). · I see – Mr. Rochester sitting here, a book and a pencil in his hand; he is writing (Ch. Bronte). · She looked first at me, then at the painted lady (Amy Tan). · Soames waited breathless at the top of the stairs (J. Galsworthy). · Who and what he was Martin never learned (J. London). · Stella had been brought up in an orphanage, which my mother seemed to feel was somehow her own fault (A. Miller). · One might write a book concerning our flight from the chicken farm into town (Sh. Anderson). · They probably try to imagine what it's like living on a barge in the middle of a city (E. George). · When I am on trial, I will frequently arrive home at 11 p.m. to find Barnara waiting for me in her housecoat, my dinner warm (S. Turow). · With my tuition deducted from a starting teacher's salary, we approached the bureacratic standards for recognized poverty (S. Turow). · I found it for the present inexplicable (Ch. Bronte). 3. Point out grammatical and ungrammatical sentences and complete the ungrammatical sentences in accordance with the valency of the verb: · I waited. · He paused. · He bought. · Tulips are grown. · My mother took. · The doctor treated. · The teacher treated. · She arrived. · The dishes clank. · She envied. 4. Point out the syntactic processes that underlie the following sentences: · Emma reached Wreck Island and sat on it, shivering and worrying about Robbie (M. Atwood). · A week later I am visited by a very stylishly dressed young woman (W. Saroyan). · No one complimented her on her feat of daring (M. Atwood). · I went to a small restaurant for dinner. Alone (I. Shaw). · I must keep to my post, however (Ch. Bronte). · It wasn't snowing in the morning but clear, blue and cold (I. Shaw). · And then the weather breaks. In the past it always has (S. Turow). · That is no answer, it is very irritating because it is a very evasive one (Ch. Bronte). · “How's work?” – “No leads and no results” (S. Turow). · I went directly to her office, eleven o'clock one morning (S. Turow). · Rauy Pearson arose and stood staring (Sh. Anserson). · How sweet I roamed, or, rather, used to roam (A. Carter).