Exercise 6. Arrange the attributes in their proper order.

1. Alongside, in the... water, weeds, like yellow snakes were writhing and nosing with the __ current, (green, deep) (Galsworthy) 2. The marqueterie cabinet was lined with __ plush, full of family relics, (red, dim) (Galsworthy) 3. In __ slippers and an — coat Keith Darrant sits asleep, (red, Turkish; old, velvet, brown) (Galsworthy) 4. He, alone, perhaps, of painters would have done justice to Annette in her __ dress, (lacy, black) (Galsworthy) 5. Ting-a-ling did not stir. "You take me for a __ dog, sir!" his silence seemed to say. (English, common) (Galsworthy) 6. This letter, with a __ border and seal, was accordingly dispatched by Sir Pitt Crawley to his brother the Colonel in London, (huge, black) (Thackeray) 7. Behrman in his __ shirt, took his seat as the hermit miner on an upturned kettle for a rock, (blue, old) (0. Henry) 8. The next day came the __ bull, drawing the cart to the office door, (red, little) (0. Henry) 9. He was naked and painted blue and yellow in stripes a __ chap, (jolly, little) (Galsworthy) 10. "You and I," the little dog seemed saying with his __ stare "object." (little, Chinese) (Galsworthy)

Exercise 6, Comment upon the position of Ihe adverbials. Say whetherthey can be placed differently.

1. She turned away and pulled off her overcoat with a sudden gesture and went to the side table where the drinks and the glasses stood. (Murdoch) 2. She flattered me and lavishly displayed for my pleasure all her charms and accomplishments. (Eliot) 3. I want to get away from home for a time for a certain reason. (Dreiser) 4. How long do you remain in town? (Wilde) 5. Once inside the prison yard, Zanders turned to the left into a small office. (Dreiser) 6. In the driving-seat, with his head fallen sideways so that he was almost toppling out on to the road, was Calvin Blick, (Murdoch) 7. He looked at her more than once, not stealthily or humbly, but with a movement of hardy, open observation. (Ch. Bronte) 8. Aileen blazed at once to a furious heat. (Dreiser) 9. She [SavinaJ had just arrived home. (Wilson) 10. Wearily he dropped off his horse, made his way to his workshop, saddlebag over his shoulder. (Stone) 11. Stanley, not once did you pull any wool over this boy's eyes. (Murdoch) 12. His face for the moment was flushed and swollen with anger. (Dreiser) 13. Only sometimes in dreams did I experience certain horrors, glimpses of a punishment which would perhaps yet find its hour. (Murdoch) 14. Every afternoon he discovered afresh that life was beastly. (Wells) 15. Then the heart of Polly leapt, and the world blazed up to wonder and splendour. (Wells) 16. And for all his attempts at self-reproach and self-discipline he felt at bottom guiltless. (Wells) 17. Johnson was off duty that morning, and devoted the time very generously to the admonitory discussion of Mr. Polly's worldly outlook. (Wells) 18. Never had she experienced such a profound satisfaction of anger and hatred. (Murdoch) 19. To know a man we must know his guts and blood. Never have I seen the inside of a man, (Stone)

Exercise 7. Put the verb in the proper place.

1. I could not eat anything nor I rest because of a dreadful aching and tingling in the limbs, (could) (Murdoch) 2. Blanche! How very right you. (are) (Tennessee Williams) 3. Very wonderful she, as she bade farewell, her ugly wide mouth smiling with pride and recognition... (was) (Lawrence) 4. Three years later the startling news that he had married a young English girl of good family, (came) (Lawrence) 5. At last, however, no longer there anything about the suicide appearing in the newspapers, (was) (Calkwell) 6. Outside the window and curtained away the end of the cold raw misty London afternoon now turned to an evening which still contained in a kind of faintly luminous haze what had never even at midday, really been daylight, (was) (Murdoch) 7. In the hotel where the young men took lunch two girls, (were) (Lawrence) 8. He lit a cigarette and lingered at the carriage door. On his face a happy smile, (was) (Maugham) 9. Somewhere hidden and secret (yet near by) a bird three notes, (sang) (Falkner) 10. By the factory walls the grimy weeds, (grew) (Priestley) 11. He did not write letters to his family, nor he letters from home, (receive) (Stone)