1. Group the following words on the grounds of:

1. similarity of general lexico-grammatical meaning,

2. similarity of implicit grammatical meaning,

3. similarity of categorical meaning:

despair, police, reader’s, readers, water, industrial, go, letter, late, pains, sand, went, informed, friendly, amicable, third, colours, sands, took, spectacles, readers’, gentlemen’s, examines, deer, woolen, feet, interesting, eating, meeting, feeling.

2. Name the Parts of Speech:

1). Then, as the road mounted along the ridge, I saw a third range of mountains, higher snow mountains, that looked chalky white and furrowed, with strange planes, and then there were mountains far off beyond all these that you could hardly tell if you really saw.

2). In my room at the hospital I undressed, put on pajamas, pulled down the curtains on the door and went to sleep.

2). The sun is slanting, an hour above the horizon now, above the swift coming of the summer night.

3). Presently, utterly humble, he began to have some notion of apologizing to the girl.

4) He stopped slightly, so that his head had a forward thrust. Andrew reached forward.

5) But most of them did not even go that far.

6) A man who had been sleeping behind a switch-beard at the far end woke up.

3. Explain the meaning of the Genitive:

a mile’s trip, a friend of Tom’s, an hour’s detention, the town’s MP, the union’s declaration, Britain’s government’ a week’s holiday’ the event’s aim.

4. Analyze the Subjects and the Predicates in the following:

a) It was slushy under feet, and only streams and patches of snow lay white on the roofs.

b) The lamps were still burning red in the murky air and, across the river, the palace of the Four Courts stood out menacingly against the heavy sky.

4. Analyze the Functional Sentence Perspective:

The boy had nothing to do but watch the sheep, and think. The shepherd had gone off to the farm, behind the birch corpse, over the hillside. The loneliness, however, did not oppress him.

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