Exercise 4 Analyse the following composite sentences.

1. Bernard and I did not tell Alice what had happened to her husband, who was supposed to take full charge of the children after she died, but she found out about it anyway.

2.1 tried to think about Gatsby then for a moment, but he was already too far away, and I could only remember without resentment, that Daisy hadn't sent a message or a flower.

3. She could say the words now without tasting any of the bitterness they'd once held, but she could remember the shock, the pain she'd felt when she'd read that short letter from her father informing her of Bannon's marriage.

4.I was conscious of my ignorance, and if she was a well-known writer I thought it as well to ascertain the fact before I spoke to her.

5. It's quite clear now that when I thought Charles was at his club he was with her.

6. When I shook hands with Mrs. Strickland I told her that if I could be of any use to her I should be very glad.

7. But because I have learnt that man is incalculable, I should not at this time of day be so surprised by the news that reached me when in the early autumn I returned to London.

8. I remembered from my previous meeting with him that he had a foolish face, and was proud of the fact that for the ten years before he left the army he had played polo three days a week.

9. But when she returned to the house, she discovered she didn't feel like unpacking or doing one of the thousand things she'd just told John she needed to do.

10. With the entire afternoon ahead of her Kit decided that after she called Maggie to check on her mother, she'd go through all the papers in his desk.

Exercise 5. State the types of the following sentences: simple, compound, complex, compound-complex, complex-compound.

1. At dinner I ate very quickly and left for the villa where the British had their hospital.

2. It was really very large and beautiful and there were fine trees in the grounds.

3. When I got home it was too late and I did not see Miss Barkley until the next evening.

4.1 set on a chair and held my cap.

5.1 wore a real one and felt like a gunman until I practised firing it.

6. Is there anything you'd like to talk about?

7. Then Harris and I, having finished up the few things left on the table, carted out our luggage onto the doorstep, and waited for a cab.

8. He came up to a dead stop, and, leaning against the railings and selecting a straw to chew, fixed us with his eye.

9. By that time, quite a small crowd had collected, and people were asking each other what was the matter.

10. It was the first time I had ever heard her laugh.

11.1 thought I'd stop by your office on Monday and pick up the ranch keys. 12. She inquired how long my parents had been dead, then how old I was, what was my name, whether I could read, write and sew a little.

Exercise 6. Distinguish between the predicative constructions and subordinate clauses in the following sentences. State the syntactic functions of the predicative constructions and the types of the subordinate clauses.

1. It's a pity you aren't shooting your movie now instead of waiting for winter.

2. It's not easy for me to crouch down for long. 3.1 felt his breath come toward me.

4. He said he felt he was advancing in the Army.

5. It being Saturday, Arabella was at home, the strings of her record player coming from the drawing room.

6. That evening, Sarah being on hospital duty, I persuaded Virginia to go with me to the cinema.

7. But that thought recalled other memories that still hurt.

8. It was a role she'd ultimately won.

9. Kit realised she was lying on the sofa, a pillow propping her head up.

10. I've given Leith a pill for you to take.

11. It makes you forget all the bad.

12. He told me he never expected a theatre to be run on such business-like lines.

13. In fact, it'll be a good time for us to go over some paperwork.

14. Looking at him, she was struck again by the illusory feeling that she'd known John all her life.

15.1 felt something dripping.

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