3. Fill in the correct word derived from the words in bold.

1. Now he was … (die) and everything was gone to the dogs, there was nothing but debt and threatening.

2. She had suffered badly during the period of … (poor).

3. It was a grey, wintry day, with saddened, dark green fields and an atmosphere … (black) by the smoke of foundries not far off.

4. She took minute pains went through the park in a state bordering on pure … (happy) as if in performing this task she came into a subtle, intimate connection with her mother.

5. Fergusson, being a mere hired …(assist), was slave to the country-side.

6. Now he had died and left them all … (hope) in debt.

7. There remained distinct in his … (conscious), like a vision, the memory of her face, lifted from the tombstone in the churchyard, and looking at him with slow, large, portentous eyes.

8. He stood on the bank, breathing … (heavy).

9. And the bottom was so deeply soft and … (certain) he was afraid of pitching with his mouth underneath.

10. It seemed … (think) long way, and his burden so heavy he felt he would never get to the house.

Grammar Tasks

1. Choose the correct word.

1. At the back was a small bricked house-yard, and beyond that a big square, gravelled/ gravelling fine and red, and having stables on two sides.

2. For month, Mabel had been servantless in the big house, keeping/ kept the home together in penury for her ineffectual brothers.

3. She need not pass any more darkly along the main street of the small town, avoiding/ avoided every eye.

4. He slowed down as he walked, watching/ watched her as if spell-bound.

5. She lifted her eyes, feeling/ felt him looking.

6. She need not demean herself any more, going/ gone into the shops and buying/ bought the cheapest food.

7. He finished his duties at the surgery as quickly as might be, hastily filling/ filled up the bottle of the waiting/ waited people with cheap drugs.

8. He hastily climbed the hill and turned across the dark green fields, following/ followed the black cinder-track.

9. In the distance, across a shallow dip in the country, the small town was clustered like smouldering/ smouldered ash, a tower, a spire, a heap of low, raw, extinct houses.

10. His nerves were exciting/ excited and gratifying/ gratified.

11. But as a matter of fact it excited him, the contact with the rough, strongly-feeling people was a stimulant applying/ applied direct to his nerves.

12. He could just make sure of the small black figure moving/ moved in the hollow of the failing day.

13. Roving across the landscape, the doctor’s quick eye detected a figure in black passing/ passed through the gate of the field, down towards the pond.

14. He stood motionless as the small black figure walked slowly and deliberately towards the centre of the pond, very slowly, gradually moving/ moved deeper into the motionless water, and still moving forward as the water got up to her breast.

2. Complete the sentences with the appropriate pronoun.

   anybody	1. Now he was dead and … was gone to the dogs, there was nothing but debt and threatening.
   nobody	2. Then however brutal and coarse … was, the sense of money had kept her proud, confident.
   everything	3. … , however, could shake the curious sullen, animal pride that dominated each member of the family.
   everything	4. Why should she answer … ?
   nothing	5. She thought of … , not even of herself.
   nothing	6. … but work, drudgery, constant hastening from dwelling to dwelling among the colliers and the iron-workers.
   nothing	7. He stood on the bank, breathing heavily. He could see … .
   something	8. She was breathing regularly, her eyes were wide open and as if conscious, but there seemed … missing in her look.

3. Choose the right pronoun:

   1. For months, Mabel had been servantless in the big house, keeping the home together in penury for her/ herself ineffectual brothers.

   2. But so long as there was money, the girl felt her/ herself established, and brutally proud, reserved.

   3. Mabel had no associates of her/ herself own sex, after her sister went away.

   4. She had loved her/ herself father, too, in a different way, depending upon him, and feeling secure in him/ himself, until at the age of fifty-four he married again.

   5. She would always hold the keys of her/ herself own situation.

   6. She need not demean her/ herself any more, going into the shops and buying the cheapest food.

   7. Some mystical element was touched in him/ himself.

   8. He could see the stables and the outbuildings distinctly, as they lay towards him/ himself on the slope.

   9. He felt, if he looked away from her, in the thick, ugly falling dusk, he would lose her/ herself altogether.

   10. She was conscious in her/ herself, but unconscious of her surroundings.