Compound nominal verbal aspect

PREDICATE

SIMPLE 2. ________

1. _______ nominal verbal 4._____

modal 3. ________

Step 2. Give your own example for each form of predicate.

TASK 8. Find and define the type of the predicate in the famous quotations given below. Translate the sentences into your mother tongue.

1. Vessels large may venture more, but little boats should keep near shore. (Benjamin Franklin)

2. Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed. – (Jonathan Swift)

3. In a mad world, only the mad are sane. (Akiro Kurosawa)

4. Necessity is the mother of invention. (Plato)

5. The course of true love never did run smooth. (William Shakespeare)

6. There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it. (George Bernard Shaw)

7. Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it. (George Bernard Shaw)

8. If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into and understanding of many things. (Van Gogh)

9. One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim. (Henry Brooks Adams)

10. Everything popular is wrong. (Oscar Wilde)

11. If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't.

12. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism. (Oscar Wilde)

13. All my life, I always wanted to be somebody. Now I see that I should have been more specific. (Jane Wagner)

14. Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again. (F. P. Jones)

15. Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't. (Erica Jong)

16. You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself. (Galileo)

17. Women are like tea bags. You never know how strong they are, until they are in hot water. (Eleanor Roosevelt)

18. The road to wisdom is always under construction. (Anonymous)

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