EXERCISE 24. Instructions as above

crackle squeak swish

squeal crash whine

roar crack drip

patter

the high-pitched sound of a factory machine

rain on the roof

wood burning on the fire

a tap that can’t be turned right off

a whip or a bone breaking

curtains in a draught

little pigs or again tyres after braking

lions or a powerful engine

mice or the chair leg moving on the floor

a car going into a wall

EXERCISE 25. Define the type of word-building by which the italicized words were made.

1. Three teams of celebs battle it out to become champion spellers and win a jackpot for charity.

2. Bent over a magazine, my Dad was busy with circling the lonely-hearts ads.

3. George Best, the footballing legend, who had turned into a drunk, was given a liver transplant. After the $80,000 op, Best vowed that he had put the booze behind him.

4. May I take the lib of saying something to you?

5. This enterprise is a cert if you have a bit of capital.

6. “You’ve had that phone 20 minutes and not said a word!” – “Sir, I’m talking to my wife”.

7. Any pro will tell you that the worst thing possible is to overrehearse.

8. Alarms erupted overhead at earsplitting decibel levels.

9. The hallway seemed never-ending.

10. Palming the soap, she peered out of the shattered window at the eighteen-wheeler idling below.

11. ‘Hold on,’ said a young woman in the front row. “I’m a bio major and I’ve never seen this Divine Proportion in nature.’

12. He had forgotten that the seemingly innocuous request of all European hotels to see a passport at check-in was more than a quaint formality – it was the law.

13. The dreamlike quality of the evening was settling around him again.

14. His dark hair was slicked back with oil, accentuating an arrow-like widow’s peak that divided his jutting brow and preceeded him like the prow of a battleship.

15. Discretion was apparently not part of the vocabulary of a 15-euro-per-hour watchman.

16. Sir Leigh Teabing had suffered from polio as a child and now wore leg braces and walked with crutches.

17. I can’t go into the specifics on the phone, but we have a situation here that could potentially be extremely unfortunate for the bank.

18. ‘To this day, most churchgoers attend services on Sunday morning with no idea that they are there on account of the pagan sun god’s weekly tribute – Sunday. ’

19. Aringarosa had a chartered turbo prop awaiting him here for the short flight to France.

20. This wooded valley was probably crisscrossed by dozens of unmapped roads.

21. He sounded apprehensive, like a father about to give the birds-and-the-bees lecture to his children.

22. He turned his eyes now to the dimly lit front recesses of the spacious interior. ‘Everyone comfy?’

23. Stepping across the threshold into Westminster Abbey, Langdon felt the outside world evaporate with a sudden hush. No rumble of traffic. No hiss of rain. Just a deafening silence, which seemed to reverberate back and forth as if the building were whispering to itself.

24. The creaking of a heavy door behind them made them turn.

25. Leigh Teabing did not feel his finger pull the trigger, but the Medusa discharged with a thundering crash.

26. Statuesque Brooke Shields has the last word on that spat with Tom Cruise, who criticised her for treating her postnatal depression with antidepressants.

27. Your son is hypersensitiv e to light, the dermatologist explained.

28. After all, although a lot of people pooh-poohed it, it’s what brought Patrick and me together.

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