9. Provide homonyms for the italicized words in the following jokes and extracts and classify them according to Professor a.I. Smirnitsky's classification system.

1. Teacher: Here is a map. Who can show us America? Nick goes to the map and finds America on it. Teacher: Now, tell me, boys, who found America? Boys: Nick.

2. Father: I promised to buy you a car if you passed your examination, and you have failed. What were you doing last term?

Son: 1 was learning to drive a car.

3. "What time do you get up in summer?"

"As soon as the first ray of the sun comes into my window."

"Isn't that rather early?" "No, my room faces west."

4. "Here, waiter, it seems to me that this fish is not so fresh as the fish you served us last Sunday."

"Pardon, sir, it is the very same fish."

5. Old Gentleman: Is it a board school you go to my dear?

Child: No, sir. I believe it be a brick one!

6. Stanton: I think telling the truth is about as healthy as skidding round a corner at sixty.

Freda: And life's got a lot of dangerous corners — hasn't it, Charles?

Stanton: It can have — if you don't choose your route well. To lie or not to lie — what do you think, Olwen?

10. Explain how the following italicized words became homonyms.

1. a) Eliduc's overlord was the king of Brittany, who was very fond of the knight, b) "I haven't slept a wink all night, my eyes just wouldn't shut."

2. a) The tiger did not spring, and so I am still alive, b) It was in a saloon in Savannah, on a hot night in spring.

3. a) She left her fan at home. b) John is a football fan.

4. a) "My lady, ... send him a belt or a ribbon — or a ring. So see if it pleases him." b) Eliduc rode to the sea.

5. a) The Thames in London is now only beautiful from certain viewpoints — from Waterloo Bridge at dawn and at night from Cardinal's Wharf on the South Bank. b) Perhaps the most wide-spread pleasure is the spectacle of the City itself, its people, the bank messengers in their pink frock coats and top hats.

6. a) The young page gave her good advice: no need to give up hope so soon, b) The verb to knead means to mix and make into a mass, with the hands or by machinery, especially, mix flour and water into dough for making bread.

7. a) Ads in America are ubiquitous. They fill the newspapers and cover the walls, they are on menu cards and in your daily post, b) "Is that enough?" asked Fortune. "Just a few more, add a few more," said the man.

8. a) The teacher told her pupils to write a composition about the last football match, b) Give me a match, please.

9. a) I can answer that question b) He had no answer.

10. a) Does he really love me? b) Never trust a great man's love.

11. a) Board and lodging, £ 2 a week. b) The proficiency of students is tested by the Examining Board.

12. a) A rite is a form in which a ceremony or observance is carried out. b) I would write letters to people, c) He put the belt on himself, and was rather careful to get it right.