Exercise 16. Use the appropriate iorm of the verb.
1. Huckleberry's hard pantings __ his only reply, (was, were) (Twain) 2. There __ many a true word spoken in jest, Mr. Cokane. (is, are) (Shaw) 3. Each of us __ afraid of the sound of his name, (was, were) (Bennett) 4. On such meetings five minutes __ the time allotted to each speaker, (was, were) (London) 5. Neither his father nor his mother __ like other people... (was, were) (Dreiser) 6. It was dark and quiet. Neither moon nor stars __ visible. (was, were) (Collins) 7. Plenty of girls __ taken to me like daughters and cried at leaving me... (has, have) (Shaw) 8. He and I __ nothing in common, (has, have) (Galsworthy) 9. But I wonder no wealthy nobleman or gentleman __ taken a fancy to her: Mr. Rochester, for instance, (has, have) (Ch. Bronte) 10. To be the busy wife of a busy man, to be the mother of many children ... __, to his thinking, the highest lot of woman, (was, were) (Trollope) 11. Her family __ of a delicate constitution, (was, were) (E. Вгопte) 12. Hers __ a large family, (was, were) 13. "Well," says my lady, " __ the police coming?" (is, are) (Collins) 14. Nobody __ I am here, (knows, know) (London) 15. But after all, who __ the right to cast a stone against one who __ suffered? (has, have; has, have) (Wilde) 16. There are men who __ dominion from the nature of their disposition, and who __ so from their youth upwards, without knowing... that any power of dominion belongs to them, (exercises, exercise; does, do) (Trollope) 17. Plain United States __ good enough for me. (is, are) (London) 18. He half started as he became aware that someone near at hand __ gazing at him. (was, were) ((Aldington) 19. Fatting cattle __ from 5 to 10 gallons of water a head daily, (consume, consumes) (Black) 20. She is supposed to have all the misfortunes and all the virtues to which humanity __ subject, (is, are) (Trollope) 21. It was a market-day, and the country people __ all assembled with their baskets of poultry, eggs and such things... (was, were) (Thackeray) 22. The precept as well as the practice of the Primitive Church __ distinctly against matrimony, (was, were) (Wilde) 23....Ratterer and Hegglund..., as well as most of the others, __ satisfied that there was not another place in all Kansas City that was really as good, (was, were) (Dreiser) 24. Twelve years __ a long time, (is, are) (Galsworthy) 25. There __ a great many ink bottles, (was, were) (Dickens) 26. May and I — just friends, (is, are) (Keating) 27. The bread and butter __ for Gwendolen, (is, are) (Wilde) 28. I am afraid it is quite clear, Cecily, that neither of us __ engaged to be married to anyone, (is, are) (Wilde) 29. It __ they that should honour you. (is, are) (Trollope) 30. Great Expectations by Dickens __ published in I860, (was, were) 31. The family party __ seated round the table in the dark wainscoted parlour... (was, were) (Eliot) 32. Everybody __ clever nowadays, (is, are) (Wilde) 33. There __ a number of things, Martin, that you don't understand, (is, are) (Wilde) 34. The number of scientific research institutes in our country __ very large. (is, are) 35. Her hair, which __ fine and of medium brown shade, __ brushed smoothly across the top of her head and then curled a little at each side, (was, were; was, were) (Priestley) 36. After some apologies, which __ perhaps too soft and sweet... the great man thus opened the case, (was, were) (Trollope) 37. It was as if the regiment __ half in khaki, half in scarlet and bearskins: (was, were) (Galsworthy) 38. Youth and Age __ a weekly, and it had published two-thirds of hjs twenty-one-thousand-word serial when it went out of business, (was, were) (London) 39. There __ a number of men present, (was, were) (Walpole) 40....the flowers came in such profusion and such quick succession that there __ neither time nor space to arrange them, (was, were) (Heytn)
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Exercise 17. Point out the kind of object and say by what it is expressed. Translate into Russian.
I. What have you got there? (Cronin) 2. She pretended not to heart (Mansfield) 3. Marcellus found the luggage packed and strapped for the journey. (Douglas) 4. I know all about it, my son. (Douglas) 5. I have to show Dr. French his. room. (Shaw) 6. I never heard you express that opinion before, sir. (Douglas) 7. Halting, he waited for the Roman to speak first. (Douglas) 8. He was with you at the banquet. (Douglas) 9. They don't want anything from us — not even our respect. (Douglas) 10. I beg your pardon for calling you by your name. (Shaw) 11. I found myself pitying the Baron. (Mansfield) 12. I've got it framed up with Gilly to drive him anywhere. (Kahler) 13. He smiled upon the young men a smile at once personal and presidential. (Kahler) 14. Gallio didn't know how to talk with Marcellus about it. (Douglas) 15. Laura helped her mother with the good-byes. (Mansfield) 16. Why did you not want him to come back and see me to-day? (Mansfield) 17. Mr. Jinks, not exactly knowing what to do, smiled a dependant's smile. (Dickens) 18. He found it impossible to utter the next word. (Kahler) 19. Marcellus issued crisp orders and insisted upon absolute obedience. (Douglas) 20. He's going to live his own life and stop letting his mother boss him around like a baby. (Kahler) 21. I will suffer no priest to interfere in my business. (Shaw) 22. Papa will never consent to my being absolutely dependent on you. (Shaw) 23. Do you know anything more about this dreadful place? (Douglas) 24. She hated Frisco and hated herself for having yielded to his kisses. (Prichard) 25. They had been very hard to please. Harry would demand the impossible. (Mansfield) 26. His part in the conversation consisted chiefly of yesses and noes. (Kahler) 27. Michelangelo could not remember having seen a painting or sculpture of the simplest nature in a Buanarrotti house. (Stone)
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