Exercise 28. Point out homogeneous parts, define them and say by what they are expressed.

1. He had lived with this block for several months now, studied it in every light, from every angle, in every degree of heat and cold. (Stone) 2. He felt discouraged, strangely empty. (Cronin) 3. There were tangerines and apples stained with strawberry pink.  (Mansfield) 4. He came in slowly, hesitated, took up a toothpick from a dish on the top of the piano, and went out again. (Mansfield) 5. But I was exceedingly nice, a trifle diffident, appropriately reverential. (Mansfield) 6. From the edge of the sea came a ripple and whisper. (Wells) 7. They went side by side, hand in hand, silently toward the hedge. (Galsworthy) 8. The light oiltside had chilled, and threw a chalky whiteness on the river. (Galsworthy) 9. Thousands of sheets must be printed, dried, cut. (Heym) 10. Opening the drawer he took from the sachet a handkerchief and the framed photograph of Fleur. (Galsworthy) II. The Captain was mostly concerned about himself, his own comfort, his own safety. (Heym) 12. Her mother was speaking in her low, pleasing, slightly metallic voice. (Galsvuorthy) 13. And suddenly she burst into tears of disappointment, shame and overstrain. (Galsworthy) 14. She extended a slender hand and smiled pleasantly and naturally. (Wales) 15. Then, without a word of warning, without the shadow of a provocation, he bit that poodle's near foreleg. (Jerome /C- Jerome) 16. It could be smashed by violence but never forced to fulfil. (Stone) 17. Never before had the friar had such power and never had his voice rung out with such a clap of doom. (Stone)

Exercise 29. Analyse the following sentences.

1. His heart felt swollen in his chest. (Stone) 2. The girl [Aileen] was really, beautiful and much above the average intelligence and force. (Dreiser) 3. Footsore and downhearted, they were making their way back to Coolgardie doing a bit of prospecting. (Prichard) 4. The idleness made him cranky. (Stone) 5. The prior's hearty, warm-cheeked face went dark at the mention of Savanarola's name. (Stone) 6. Ah, to be a soldier, Michelangelo, to fight in mortal combat, to kill the enemy with sword and lance, conquer new lands and all their women? That is the life! (Stone) 7. He said it in a very mature, man-to-man tone. (Warren) 8. Evidently George and the sheriff were getting along in a very friendly way, for all the former's bitter troubles and lack of means. (Dreiser) 9. Together they sketched the apostles, the one bald-headed, the other supporting the weeping John. (Stone) 10. With all his brightness and cleverness and general good qualities, Mr. Franklin's chance of topping Mr. Godfrey in our young lady's estimation was, in my opinion, a very poor chance indeed. (Collins) 11. Suddenly all the differences between life and death became apparent. (Stone) 12. Michelangelo began to see pictures in his mind: of struggles between men, of the rescue of women, of the wounded, the dying. (Stone) 13. I am a thousand times cleverer and more charming than that creature, for all her wealth. (Thackeray) 14.1'mnot accustomed to having more than one drink. (Tennessee Williams) 15. Bertoldo, I feel the need to be solitary, to work beyond all eyes, even yours. (Stone) 16. Miss Fulton laid her moonbeam fingers on his cheeks and smiled her sleepy smile. (Mansfield) 17. Sally found it difficult to visit anybody herself. (Prichard) 18. And surely, no man in his senses wants the disastrous consequences of this rush to go any further. (Prichard) 19. To draw one does not need big muscles. (Stone) 20. And yet, as though overcome, she flung down on a couch and pressed her hands to her eyes. (Mansfield) 21. It was a simple face and could have been handsome, in spite of its saffron colouring, but for the soft, full mouth. (Cronin) 22. The Lieutenant, without cap, sword or gloves, and much improved in temper and spirits by his meal, chooses the lady's side of the room, and waits, much at his ease, for Napoleon to begin. (Shaw) 23. With his strange, hawking cry and the jangle of the cans the milk-boy went his rounds. (Mansfield) 24. The man and daughter, the mother being dead, brought their letter from a church in West Tennessee and were accepted forthwith into fellowship. (Warren) 25. He could not bring himself to face Stanek. (Heym) 26. There was a two-storey new wing, with a smart bathroom between each two bedrooms and almost up-to-date fittings.. (Lawrence) 27. Her [Aileen's] eyes gleamed almost pleadingly for all her hauteur, like a spirited collie's, and her even teeth showed beautifully. (Dreiser) 28. In the afternoon, leaning from my window, I saw him pass down the street, walking tremulously and carrying the bag. (Lawrence) 29. Amazed and amused, they watched white men scurrying about the ridge, digging and burrowing into the earth like great rats. (Prichard) 30. He sat down by the oak tree, in the sun, his fur coat thrown open, his hat roofing with its flat top the pale square of his face. (Galsworthy) 31. She was remaining upstairs to give Mary full pleasure of being hostess at her own party. (Murdoch) 32. It was pleasant to travel this way, all expenses paid by "the Firm". (Warren) 33. One of them even opened the car door for him, with the awkward deference ritually paid in Johntown to the crippled or sick. (Warren) 34. She was sitting there very quietly, her legs bent back under her, her yellow skirt evenly spread to make a circle on the green grass, her hands lying supine, slightly curled, and empty on her lap, in a sweet humility, her waist rising very straight and small from the spread circle of the skirt, her back very straight but her neck gently inclining to one side. (Warren)

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