3. Find cases of conversion in the following examples.

1) The clerk was eyeing him expectantly. 2) Under the cover of that protective din he was able to toy with a steaming dish which his waiter had brought. 3) An aggressive man battled his way to Stout’s side. 4) What are you doing here? – I’m tidying your room. 5) How on earth do you remember to milk the cows and give pigs their dinner? 6) “Then it’s practically impossible to steal any diamonds?” asked Mrs. Blair with as keen an air of disappointment as though she had been journeying there for the express purpose.

4. Find compounds in the following jokes and extracts and write them out into three columns: a. Neutral compounds. B. Morphological compounds. C. Syntactic compounds.

1. Pat and Jack were in London for the first time. During a tour of the shops in the West End they came to an expensive-looking barber’s. “Razors!” exclaimed Pat. “You want one, don’t you? There’s a beauty there for twenty-five bob (a shilling (pl. bob)), and there’s another for thirty bob. Which would you sooner have?” “A beard,” said Jack, walking off.

2. The children were in the midst of a free-for-all (a fight without rules in which any number of people join or become involved). “Richard, who started this?” asked the father as he came into the room. “Well, it all started when David hit me back.”

3. That night, as they cold-suppered together, Barmy cleared his throat and looked across at Pongo with a sad sweet smile. “I mean to say, it’s no good worrying and trying to look ahead and plan and scheme and weigh every action, because you never can tell when doing such-and-such won’t make so-and-so happen – while, on the other hand, if you do so-and-so it may just as easily lead to such-and-such.”

5. Find shortenings in the jokes and extracts given below and specify the method of their formation.

1) Brown: But, Doc, I got bad eyes!

Doctor: Don’t worry. We’ll put you up front (1) мы пошлем вас на передовую; 2) Мы посадим вас в первый ряд (игра слов)).

2) “How was your guard duty yesterday, Tom?”

“O.K. I was remarkably vigilant.”

“Were you?”

“Oh, yes. I was so vigilant that I heard at once the relief sergeant approaching my post though I was fast asleep.”