Exercise 23. Follow the direction for Exercise 22.

1. At the top of the stairs she paused to wave to him. (Douglas) 2. Marcellus accepted this information without betraying his amazement. (Douglas) 3. Having knocked on his door, she firmly entered Grandpa's room. (Cronin) 4. After waiting for a few minutes, he marched up the steps, closely followed by Demetrius. (Douglas) 5. Why do you always look at things with such dreadfully practical eyes? (London) 6. David appeared in the open door, one hand clutching a sheaf of bills, under his other arm an account book. (Stone) 7. That night I could scarcely sleep for thinking of it. (Cronin) 8. She did feel silly holding Moon's hand like that. (Mansfield) 9. Then Gallio cleared his throat, and faced his son with troubled eyes. (Douglas) 10. We have some exceptionally fine roses this year. (Douglas) 11. Jonathan shook his head slowly, without looking up, his tongue bulging his cheek. (Douglas) 12. But it was of no use. Marcellus' melancholy was too heavy to be lifted. (Douglas) 13. She [Sally] never would have been able to make a success of the dining-room but for the kindness and assistance of the men. (Prichard) 14. On being informed of the old man's flight, his fury was unbounded. (Dickens) 15. To be a complete artist it is not enough to be a painter, sculptor or architect. (Stone) 16. Sally was furious with herself for having fainted. (Prichard) 17. With all her faults, she was candor herself. (Hardy) 18. The receiving overseer, Roger Kendall, though thin and clerical, was a rather capable man. (Dreiser)

Exercise 24. Point out all the adverbial modifiers expressed by Predicative Constructions. Translate into Russian.

1. Marcellus strode heavily to and fro before the entrance, his impatience mounting. (Douglas) 2. On her applying to them, reassured by this resemblance, for a direction to Miss Dorrit, they made way for her to enter a dark hall. (Dickens) 3. Well, women's faces have had too much power over me already for me not to fear them. (Hardy) 4. I almost doubt whether I ought not to go a step farther, and burn the letter at once, for fear of its falling into wrong hands. (Collins) 5. Michelangelo went to Jacopo's side, ran his hand carressingly over the sacrophagus, his fingers tracing out in its low relief the funeral procession of fighting men and horses. (Stone) 6. Michelangelo went into the yard and sat in the baking sun with his chin resting on his chest. (Stone) 7. That over, she sat back with a sigh and softly rubbed her knees. (Mansfield) 8. He opened the door for the Senator to precede him. (Douglas) 9. They were returning to Fogarty's; their hands full of flowers. (Prichard) 10. She pressed his hand mutely, her eyes dim. (London) 11. His being an older man, that made it all right. (Warren) 12. On the second of these days Granacci burst into the studio, his usually placid eyes blinking hard. (Stone) 13. He stood beside me in silence, his candle in his hand. (Conan Doyle) 14. In a room within the house, Cowperwood, his coat and vest off, was listening to Aileen's account of her troubles. (Dreiser) 15. There was room enough for me to sit between them, and no more. (Collins)

Exercise 25. Say what parts of the sentence are introduced by the preposition with or without.

I. Steger was beside himself with fear. (Dreiser) 2. Basil, let us have something iced to drink, something with strawberries in it. (Wilde) 3. She continued silent, leaning back, her smile now glowing with all its insolence. (Murdoch) 4. His friend Francesco Granacci was a nineteen year-old youth, a head taller than himself, with hay-colored hair and alert blue eyes. (Stone) 5. Without beauty of feature or elegance of form, she pleased. Without youth and its gay graces, she cheered. (Ch. Bronte) 6. The real bourgeois Ruth, with all the bourgeois failings and with the hopeless cramp of the bourgeois psychology in her mind, he had never loved. (London) 7. Mr. Godfrey's fine eyes filled with tears. (Collins) 8. The gravel paths were moist and the grass was wet with dew. (Hemingway) 9. There were villas with iron fences and big overgrown gardens and ditches with water flowing and green vegetable gardens with dust on the leaves. (Hemingway) 10. My Anna is worth two of her, with all her beauty and talent. (Eliot) 11. He was standing now with the waves breaking at his feet. (Lawrence)

Exercise 26. Point out all the independent elements and say by what they are expressed.

1. In the morning, however, there was a comforting excitement in leaving the train. (Kahler) 2. May be, after all, there was something in that wild idea of Albertine's. (Kahler) 3. They gave him, in fact, a pleasant feeling of vicarious fatherhood. (Kahler) 4. Nicholas, unfortunately, had passed an unquiet night. (Cronin) 5. Nevertheless, despite this reasoning there remained in the Consul's breast that strange sense of jealousy. (Cronin) o. now fortunate to have such a reliable couple in the house. Naturally, he counted on the Burtons as an official standby. (Cronin) 7. I am a human being, senor, and must take advantage of my opportunities. Frankly, I am accustomed to good wine. (Cronin) 8. He was surprised, evidently, to find Sally so much at home and bustling about like that. (Prichard) 9. She was quite unconcerned, as a matter of fact, about being left alone in the camp, (Prichard) 10. Perhaps her colonial upbringing had something to do with it. (Prichard) 11. It was still too early for his ride, but he did not go back to bed, he wasn't deeply worried, to be sure, but he knew that he wouldn't be able to sleep. (Kahter)

Exercise 27. Point out what parts are detached and by what they are expressed.

1. Now their laughter joined together, seized each other and held close, harmoniously, intertwined through each other's fabric and substance. (Stone) 2. Huckleberry Finn was there, with his dead cat. (Twain) 3. We reached the station, with only a minute or two to spare. (Collins) 4. Blind and almost senseless, like a bird caught in a snare, he still heard the sharp slam of the door. (Cronin) 5. As he strode along he was conscious, within himself, of a deep, pervading sense of power. (Cronin) 6. With his hands by his sides, he strolled very slowly and inconspicuously, down the border. * (Cronin) 7. One summer, during a brief vacation at Knocke, his visit had come to the notice of Harrington Brande. (Cronin) 8. We are very poor, senor, with many mouths to feed, and these fish would make a good meal for us. (Cronin) 9. Unbelievingly, his eyes fixed, lips tightly compressed, Brande stared at the advancing youth. (Cronin) 10. He remembered her brave and hardy, wjth a small-boned eager face, enriched with weather and living. (Sdnborn) 11. The girls had met and were strolling, arm in arm, through the rose arbor. (Douglas) 12. Stout, middle-aged, full of energy, clad in a grease-stained dark blue print dress... she bustled backwards and forwards from the kitchen to the dining-room. (Prichard) 13. She had become very drab and unattractive, with all the hard work, no doubt. (Prichard) 14. But, for all that, they had a very pleasant walk. (Dickens)