"Сборник упражнений по грамматике английского языка" - читать интересную книгу автора (Каушанская В. Л.)

GRAMMATICAL HOMONYMS



Exercise 1. State whether the boldfaced word is an adverb, a modal word, or a particle.


1.

Miss Whitmore was


truly

taken by surprise. (Dreiser)2....the time had come in which she must speak to him


truly

. (Trollope)3. The hall looked


exactly

as it did when he used to dine there with Jack Herring. (Galsworthy)4. My mother knew so


exactly

how to dress. 5. You are coming


right

out into life — facing it all. (Wells)6. She would never persuade them that she had done


right

. (Wells)7. "You will be sure to come?" said Mr. Snodgrass. "Oh,


certainly

." (Dickens)8. Soames smiled.


Certainly

Uncle James had a way with him. (Galsworthy)9. Lammlein rose. "We have fulfilled our obligations," he said pompously, and yet not quite


certainly

. (Heym)10. Tom, you'll manage it and if you do I'll give you something


ever

so nice. (Twain)11. I don't think I shall ever be afraid of you again, Bessie. (Си. Bronte) 12. Fleur having declared that it was "


simply

too wonderful to stay indoors," they all went out. (Galsworthy)13.-She looked at him


simply

, directly... (Dreiser)14. They


just

came in. They are sitting in number 7 booth. (This is America)15. I'll


just

tap and ask them to come out. (Dreiser)16. I don't know


just

what to do. (Dreiser)17. What are they that they should judge us?


Yet

they do unhesitatingly. (Shaw)18. There was


yet

another source of difference between us. (Dickens)19. But the gentleman had not finished his requests


yet

. (Priestley) 20. "I had another reason for suspecting the deceased woman," he said, "which appears to me to have been stronger


still."

(Collins)21. He had no purpose in going about the room, but he was not


still

a moment. (Dickens)22....Charlie felt sure that she was


still

somewhere in London. (Priestley) 23. Old Mr. Ablewhite


never

made his appearance that night. (Collins)24. Mrs. Reed was blind and deaf on the subject. She


never

saw him strike or heard him abuse me. (Ch. Bronte)25. To be loved beautifully was


surely

the crown and climax of her being. (Wells)26. Slowly,


surely

, with the secret inner process that works the destruction of an old tree, the poison of the wounds to his happiness, his will, his pride, had corroded the comely edifice of his philosophy. (Galsworthy)27. In turn, each of these brothers was very different from the other, yet they,


too

, were alike. (Galsworthy) 28. They said of him that he was


too

serious. (This is America)



Exercise 2. State whether the boldfaced word is an adverb or a preposition.

1. Somebody


outside

pulled at the door. (Greene) 2.


Outside

it was getting dark. (Hemingway)3. It was a nice little place and he liked the high mountain hauling up


beyond

. (Hemingway)4.


Outside

, and


beyond

the road, lay the Park. (Murdoch)5. There, just


inside

the door, stood a wide, shallow tray full of pots of pink lilies. (Mansfield)6. It was dark


inside

. (Hemingway)7. He wandered


down

the street again. (Lindsay)8. He dressed for dinner early and was first


down

. (Galsworthy)9. I drove back


up

the narrow road. (Hemingway)10. They mounted


up

and


up

, through the musty smell of an old close house, little used, to a large garret bedroom. (Dickens)II. It was just that he had never really looked into a human face


before

. (Warren)12. The afternoon


before

the attack was spent in putting the boats ready.



Exercise 3. State whether the boldfaced word is an adverb, a conjunction, a preposition, or a postposition.

1. They were reluctant to interfere


in

their niece's private affairs. (Lindsay) 2. A cool March air came

in