Exercise 3. Choose an expression from the list below to show what each sentence really refers to. (You will need to use some expressions more than once).

a product made by a company like a branch of a copy of

a particular ‘version’ of a person like a work by

1. The London of the 21^st century is very different. ………….. London

2. Well, mine’s a Hitachi. ………….. Hitachi

3. They’ve discovered a new Van Gogh. ………….. Van Gogh

4. They’re opening a new McDonald’s today. ………….. McDonald’s

5. They are calling him the new Elvis. ………….. Elvis

6. I’ve just bought a Honda. ………….. Honda

7. The Paris of my youth no longer exists. ………….. Paris

8. We plan to be the IBM of the next century. ………….. IBM

9. It was not the still quiet Manderley I knew. (D. du Maurier) ………….. Manderley

10. Lena was a Luly Castellar for him. ………….. Luly Castellar

11. Abe educated her, and now she’s married to a Buddha. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald) ………….. Buddha

12. “You’ve got a Titian, haven’t you?” (W.S. Maugham) ………….. Titian

13. He turned to Baby, with the expression of an exasperated Christ. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald) ………….. Christ

14. In the proper land and century he might have been a Richelieu. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald) ………….. Richelieu

15. He perceived all the maturity of an older America. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald) ………….. America

Exercise 4. Insert articles where necessary. Pay attention to the use of proper nouns converted into common nouns.

1. “Take Salzburg. By no means the chief city of Austria, but __ Jerusalem to any music lover.” (S. Fry)

2. That was the condition in which __ Raphaels, __ Rembrandts, __ Van Dycks, __ Titians and other priceless works of art were found. (J. Dudley)

3. Not even __ Rembrandt has the right to ruin someone else’s life. (J. Fowles)

4. “You’re not a political guy. You could never have been __ director. You could never have been __ Eisenhower, Jack, or __ Omar Bradley.” (Th. Harris)

5. He wouldn’t know __ Titian if he saw one. (W.S. Maugham)

6. Yes, there it was, __ Manderley I had expected, __ Manderley of my picture postcard long ago. (D. du Maurier)

7. I remember __ Monet of people rowing on a river, __ Pissaro of a quay and a bridge on __ Seine, __ Tahitian landscape by Gauguin, and __ charming Renoir of a young girl in profile with long yellow hair hanging down her back. (W.S. Maugham)

8. She was watching __ very ancient Ford turn a perilous corner and rattle and groan to a jolting stop at the end of the walk. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)

9. It was Dick’s car, __ Renault so dwarfish that they all stuck out of it except the children. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)

10. I might be a really great dictator or writer or religious or political leader – and now even __ Leonardo da Vinci or Lorenzo de Medici couldn’t be a real old-fashioned bolt in the world. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)

11. But we no sooner get a popular reformer or politician or soldier or writer or philosopher – __ Roosevelt, __ Tolstoy, __ Wood, __ Shaw, __ Nietzsche, than the cross-currents of criticism wash him away. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)

12. You, Tom d’Invilliers, __ blighted Shelley, changing, shifting, clever, unscrupulous, represent the critical consciousness of the race. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)

13. The pawnbroker picked up the watch and studied it. “__Piaget. Nice watch.” (S. Sheldon)

14. This was not __ Paris that Elliot had accepted thirty years before as his spiritual home. This was not __ Paris that good Americans went to when they died. (W.S. Maugham)

15. There’s __ McDonald’s at the top of Oxford Street. I can’t remember the last time I had __ McDonald’s. (M. Gayle)

16. Where Simonetta had the slender, sweet body of a young woman sculpted by Manzù, Donatella had the sensuous, ripe body of __ Rubens. (S. Sheldon)

17. Suakin, __ Venice of __ Red Sea. A crumbling coral city, __ greatest Red Sea port of the sixteenth century. (H. Fielding)

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