III. Practical task. Task I. Point out the coordinate clauses and comment on the way they are joined

Task I. Point out the coordinate clauses and comment on the way they are joined.

1. It was high summer, and the hay harvest was almost over. 2. All the rooms were brightly lighted, but there seemed to be complete silence in the house. 3. One small group was playing cards, another sat around the table and drank, or, tiring of that, adjourned to a large room to dance to music of the victrola or player piano. 4. His eyes were blood-shot and heavy, his face a deadly white, and his body bent as if with age. 5. He only smiled, however, and there was comfort in his hearty rejoinder, for there seemed to be a whole sensible world behind it. 6. You’ll either sail this boat correctly or you’ll never go out with me again. 7. Time passed, and she came to no conclusion, nor did any opportunities come her way for making a closer study of Mischa. 8. She often enjoyed Annette’s company, yet the child made her nervous. 9. She ran through another set of rooms, breathless, her feet scarcely touching the surface of the soft carpets; then a final doorway suddenly and unexpectedly let her out into the street. 10. It was early afternoon, but very dark outside, and the lamps had already turned on.

Task II. Define the types of subordinate clauses (subject, object and predicative clauses). Translate them into Ukrainian.

1. Miss Casement stopped what she was doing and stared at Rainsborough. 2. What you saw tonight was an ending. 3. The trouble with you, Martin, is that you are always looking for a master. 4. Suddenly realizing what had happened, she sprang to her feet. 5. “It looks as if spring will never come”, she remarked. 6. I want you to sit here beside me and listen to what I have to say. 7. Who and what he was, Martin never learned.

Task III. Define the type of attributive clauses.

1. “Everybody who makes the kind of blunder I did should apologize,” he remarked with a pronounced nodding of his head. 2. Rachel had become aware of the fact that she was talking loudly. 3. He took after his blond father, who had been a painter. Rosa took after her dark-haired mother, who had been a Fabian. 4. What we are interested in, as author and reader, is the fact that publishing in England is now an integral part of big business. 5. The invalid whose strength was now sufficiently restored, threw off his coat, and rushed towards the sea, with the intention of plunging in, and dragging the drowning man ashore. 6. He was suddenly reminded of the crumpled money he had snatched from the table and burned in the sink. 7. Georgie, who is now twenty-six, had been an undergraduate at Cambridge, where she had taken a degree in economics. 8. He would speak for hours about them to Harry Esmond; and, indeed, he could have chosen few subjects more likely to interest the unhappy young man, whose heart was now as always devoted to these ladies; and who was thankful to all who loved them, or praised them, or wished them well. 9. I hardly know why I came to the conclusion that you don’t consider it an altogether fortunate attachment.

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