6.5. Insert the appropriate article.

1. She’d been looking at herself, with … kind of easy acceptance with which she looked at most things, touching her thick, majestic fair plait which she wore pulled over one solid shoulder. 2. A baby would not have wanted to challenge or take over …. life that Nathalie and Ralph and Lynne had built up together. 3. Steve moved towards … staircase that led down from the studio. 4. The fronts are clapboards, weathered and white except for …. gaps which individual owners have painted green and barn-red and wheat-color. 5. He goes to the closet and takes out …. coat he hung up so neatly. 6. … reason why all this was to be done by him alone, was such as I have given above. 7. That is …. question which I hardly know how to answer. 8. He saw the busy shapes of …. men who did as they were told but did not know what they were doing. 9. If you please, miss, the gipsy declares that there is ….. young single lady in the room who has not been to her yet, and she swears she will not go till she has seen all. 10. … way that they looked was this: if I died, Matty would be put in a home somewhere. 11. … thing that’s wrong with you is that you spend so much time not saying what you want. 12. Lady Catherine seemed quite astonished at not receiving a direct answer; and Elizabeth suspected herself to be …. first creature who had ever dared to trifle with so much dignified impertinence. 13. I have a very poor opinion of … young men who live in Derbyshire; and their intimate friends who live in Hertfordshire are not much better. 14. He started making …. noises such as Frank had never heard before.

6.6. Complete the sentences by using a particularizing clause.

1. The boy …………………………………………… turned out to be his second cousin.

2. I could easily guess that the woman ……………………………………. was a spinster.

3. The bridesmaid ……………………. dropped her bow and kneeled down to pick it up.

4. The colleagues …………………………………… are in fact spouses.

5. I couldn’t believe that all the men ………….. were bachelors – in fact, eligible ones!

6. The prenuptial agreement ……………………………… was nowhere to be found.

7. He is the worst best man ………………………………………………...

8. The bouquet ……………………………was caught by the groom’s stepmother.

9. The newlyweds looked at the limousine ………………….with astonishment and amazement.

10. The bride didn’t like the pram and the cot …………………………..

6.7. Complete the sentences by using a classifying clause with the antecedent given in italics.

1. No one can be elected as President of the USA.

2. I wouldn’t buy a car.

3. Everybody can appeal to the higher court.

4. I’ve never talked to a man.

5. Most people disapprove of young men.

6. Any person will need to get their photo taken.

7. I never buy books.

8. A person can’t become the UK monarch.

9. Is there anything in the closet?

10. Women do not marry men.

11. Foreigners are extradited to the native countries.

12. You can ask a refund for goods.

6.8. Point out the relative non-restrictive clauses. Translate into Russian. Analyse the antecedent and the conjunction.

1. Silent, like sorrowing children, the birds have ceased their song, and only the moorhen’s plaintive cry and the harsh croak of the corncrake stirs the awed hush around the couch of waters, where the dying day breathes out her last. 2. For other breakfast things, George suggested eggs and bacon, which were easy to cook, cold meat, tea, bread and butter, and jam. 3. We were to learn in the days to come, when it was too late, that George was a miserable impostor, who could evidently have known nothing whatever about the matter. 4. Poor Errol, who was elderly and feeble, had needed a full five days to recover from the journey. 5. After a quick tour of the girls’ tent, which was slightly smaller than the boys’ one, Harry, Ron, and Hermione set off across the campsite with the kettle and saucepans. 6. He then climbed out of the portrait hole, finally arriving at the Owlery, which was situated at the top of West Tower.