Exercise 2. Point out all the coordinating conjunctions and define the group each belongs to
1. The stranger had not gone far, so he made after him to ask the name. (Dickens) 2. Be quick, or it may be too late. (Dickens) 3....real accuracy and purity she neither possessed, nor in any number of years would acquire. (Ch. Bronte) 4....Mrs. Septimus Small let fall no word, neither did she question June about him. (Galsworthy) 5. The river was not high, so there was not more than a two or three mile current. (Twain) 6. It seemed to him that he could contrive to secure for her the full benefit of both his life insurance and his fire insurance... (Wells) 7. Karl is solid and extremely certain of himself, while Joseph on the other hand, though no less certain of himself, is a good deal less solid. (Saroyan) 8. He could see no one, and he began to believe that either his instinct had deceived him, or else that the shadowing was over. (Greene) 9. But for a long time we did not see any lights, nor did we see the shore, but rowed steadily in the dark riding with the waves. (Hemingway)
Exercise 3. Point out all the subordinating conjunctions and say what kind of subordinate clauses they introduce.
1. She stood quite silent while Butler appealed to her. (Dreiser) 2. Since Miss Wilfer rejected me, I have never again urged my suit. (Dickens) 3. Whenever I looked at Susan she gave me a frank full-hearted smile. (Braine) 4. So the tiny woman closed the shutter of the cottage window and fastened the door, and trembling from head to root for fear that any one should suspect her, opened a very secret place, and showed the Princess a shadow. (Dickens) 5. And yet tired though he was after his three long days, Soames dreaded the moment when the car should stop. (Galsworthy) 6. I extinguished my taper, locked my bureau, and left her, since she would not leave me. (Ch. Bronte) 7. Once they reached the open country the car leapt forward like a mad thing. (Murdoch) 8. He was a tall fellow with a very wide mouth and prematurely bald in front, so that he appeared to have a colossal forehead. (Priestley) 9. The reference was as plain as it was unexpected. (Clark) 10. Early as he was, another man was there before him. (Dreiser) 11. We're as we're made. (Maugham) 12. They were all smiling wid'ely at me as I came toward them. (/. Shaw)13. He was a fattish, worried, untidy man, always looking as if he had slept in the expensive clothes he wore. (Priestley) 14. Mr. Pancks has come down into the Yard to-night, on purpose that you should hear him. (Dickens) 15. The most I can say now is that it is very cold in San Francisco, and I am freezing. (Saroyan) 16. Give me your promise that this shall be done. (Priestley) 17. In that small room he seemed even bigger than I remembered him. (Maugham) 18. Whatever I intend to do I'll do without advice from the outside. (Dreiser) 19. Breakfast was not yet over before the men came to put up the marquee. (Mansfield) 20. He prized the pencil, because it had been a gift from his mother. (Warren) 21. As soon as he had gone, I looked at the clock. (Snow) 22. After a sleepless night, he [Cowperwood] wrote his resignation to the chairman of the board of directors, in order that he should be prepared to hand it to him at once. (Dreiser)
THE PARTICLE
Exercise 1. Point out the particles and define the group each belongs to.
1. It is just because I want to save my soul that I am marrying for money. (Shaw) 2. Rosa feared this power, but she enjoyed it too. (Murdoch) 3. Oh, doctor, do you think there is any chance? Can she possibly survive this last terrible complication? (Shaw) 4, We merely want to see the girl and take her away. (Dreiser) 5. I shall also try to be there at ten. (Wells) 6. Don't come any nearer. You're at just the right distance. (Bennett) 7. He had taken up with it solely because he was starving. (London) 8. Soames was but following in the footsteps of his father. (Galsworthy) 9. I am interested only in man. Life I love and before death I am humble. (Saroyan) 10. Just then the telephone rang. (Snow) 11. Tom, you'll manage it and if you do I'll give you something ever so nice. (Twain) 12. He needed the peculiar sympathy that a woman alone can give. (Locke) 13. She ought to have written at once and told htm exactly what had happened. (Wells) 14. I think, he's been a simply perfect father, so long as I can remember. (Galsworthy) 15. They did not even look at him. (Faulkner) 16. Not a career for a man of his ability. (Galsworthy) 17. We followed him along the corridor... He never looked back, he never hesitated. (Collins)
GRAMMATICAL HOMONYMS
Exercise 1. State whether the boldfaced word is an adverb, a modal word, or a particle.
1.
Miss Whitmore was
Truly
taken by surprise. (Dreiser) 2....the time had come in which she must speak to him
Truly
. (Trollope) 3. The hall looked
Exactly
as it did when he used to dine there with Jack Herring. (Galsworthy) 4. My mother knew so
Exactly
how to dress. 5. You are coming
Right
out into life — facing it all. (Wells) 6. She would never persuade them that she had done
Right
. (Wells) 7. "You will be sure to come?" said Mr. Snodgrass. "Oh,
Certainly
." (Dickens) 8. Soames smiled.
Certainly
Uncle James had a way with him. (Galsworthy) 9. Lammlein rose. "We have fulfilled our obligations," he said pompously, and yet not quite
Certainly
. (Heym) 10. Tom, you'll manage it and if you do I'll give you something
Ever
so nice. (Twain) 11. I don't think I shall ever be afraid of you again, Bessie. (Си. Bronte) 12. Fleur having declared that it was "
Simply
too wonderful to stay indoors," they all went out. (Galsworthy) 13.-She looked at him
Simply
, directly... (Dreiser) 14. They
Just
came in. They are sitting in number 7 booth. (This is America) 15. I'll
Just
tap and ask them to come out. (Dreiser) 16. I don't know
Just
what to do. (Dreiser) 17. What are they that they should judge us?
Yet
they do unhesitatingly. (Shaw) 18. There was
Yet
another source of difference between us. (Dickens) 19. But the gentleman had not finished his requests
Yet
. (Priestley) 20. "I had another reason for suspecting the deceased woman," he said, "which appears to me to have been stronger
still."
(Collins) 21. He had no purpose in going about the room, but he was not
Still
a moment. (Dickens) 22....Charlie felt sure that she was
Still
somewhere in London. (Priestley) 23. Old Mr. Ablewhite
Never
made his appearance that night. (Collins) 24. Mrs. Reed was blind and deaf on the subject. She
Never
saw him strike or heard him abuse me. (Ch. Bronte) 25. To be loved beautifully was
Surely
the crown and climax of her being. (Wells) 26. Slowly,
Surely
, with the secret inner process that works the destruction of an old tree, the poison of the wounds to his happiness, his will, his pride, had corroded the comely edifice of his philosophy. (Galsworthy) 27. In turn, each of these brothers was very different from the other, yet they,
Too
, were alike. (Galsworthy) 28. They said of him that he was
Too
serious. (This is America)