Exercise 1. Point out the particles and define the group each belongs to.

1. It is just because I want to save my soul that I am marrying for money. (Shaw) 2. Rosa feared this power, but she enjoyed it too. (Murdoch) 3. Oh, doctor, do you think there is any chance? Can she possibly survive this last terrible complication? (Shaw) 4, We merely want to see the girl and take her away. (Dreiser) 5. I shall also try to be there at ten. (Wells) 6. Don't come any nearer. You're at just the right distance. (Bennett) 7. He had taken up with it solely because he was starving. (London) 8. Soames was but following in the footsteps of his father. (Galsworthy) 9. I am interested only in man. Life I love and before death I am humble. (Saroyan) 10. Just then the telephone rang. (Snow) 11. Tom, you'll manage it and if you do I'll give you something ever so nice. (Twain) 12. He needed the peculiar sympathy that a woman alone can give. (Locke) 13. She ought to have written at once and told htm exactly what had happened. (Wells) 14. I think, he's been a simply perfect father, so long as I can remember. (Galsworthy) 15. They did not even look at him. (Faulkner) 16. Not a career for a man of his ability. (Galsworthy) 17. We followed him along the corridor... He never looked back, he never hesitated. (Collins)

GRAMMATICAL HOMONYMS

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

1.Miss Whitmore was trulytaken 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? Yetthey 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 stilla moment. (Dickens) 22....Charlie felt sure that she was stillsomewhere 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 neversaw 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 through the revolving door whenever the page-boy passed the guests in or out. (Baum) 3. She came back with a package and got in and we drove on. (Hemingway) 4. Bertine and I are just on our way home, truly. (Dreiser) 5. After dinner they sat about and smoked. (Aldington) 6. After she had left me I brooded on my situation. (Clark) 7. A little before midnight the thick fog that had been falling over the city became rain. (Saroyan) 8. She thought for a moment before she replied. (Trollope) 9. You have never worked at anything like this before, have you? (Dreiser) 10. I was born there, but have never been there since I was a baby. (Trollope) 11. I knew him well, but it was some years since, and I valued him as a man of singular probity and spirit. (Trollope) 12. On one point they were in agreement — George had degenerated terribly since joining the army. (Aldington) 13. At other times he was working in his vineyard from dawn till the heat drove him to rest and then again, when it was a trifle cooler till dusk. (Maugham) 14. After tea she fulfilled that promise to herself and took Jon up the hill. (Galworthy) 15. Rinaldi picked up the candle, lit it and went on reading. (Hemingway) 16. He glanced up reproachfully, caught the comic lift of her eyebrow just like their father's, laughed and felt better. (Galsworthy) 17. Lady Anna stood at the open window, looking across at the broad field and the river bank beyond... (Trollope) 18....there was a little hill and beyond a stone wail, an apple orchard. (Hemingway) 19. What, after all, did an extra five minutes matter? But he would pretend to himself that they mattered beyond measure. (Mansfield) 20. But he missed Fleur, who came down last. (Galsworthy) 21. The sun was going down and the day was cooling off. (Hemingway)