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Discussion questions and exercise tasks: I. Consider your answers to the following:

1. 
   Dwell upon the nature of complex sentences in English and Ukrainian.
   
2. 
   Describe the subject subordinate clause in both contrasted
   

languages.
3. Are there any difficulties in singling out predicative
subordinate clauses in English and Ukrainian?

4. 
   Compare the means of joining object clauses to the matrix clause in contrasted languages.
   
5. 
   Is there any difference between English and Ukrainian descriptive attributive clauses and descriptive attributive clauses?
   

6. Describe the peculiarities of adverbial clauses in both
contrasted languages. Provide examples of the main types of adverbial
clauses in English and Ukrainian.
II. Identify complex sentences in the passages below. Dwell upon the types of clauses in these sentences; describe the means of connection of subordinate clauses to the matrix clause.

1. 
   Temple is guilty of outright cowardice, as was National I'ublic Radio when, in 19994, it decided not to air a series of Abu-.lamal commentaries on prison life. Some folks have speculated that both Temple and NPR knuckled under to pressure from the Fraternal Older of Police (FOP). That the FOP wouldn't want a convicted cop killers views on the air is understandable. But I feel some voices need l о be heard, (newspaper writing)
   
2. 
   There are many players who might win the Masters, many who could. But the feeling about Faldo is that if he is at the top of his game, he could win it. That he is ranked only No 4 in the world at the moment is due to the eccentricity of the system. His first Masters win has now slipped from his ranking points, (newspaper writing)
   
3. 
   Republican presidential nominee Bob Dole has said, "If World War III were declared, the media would still ask me about
   

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abortion." That the media are fixated upon the differences within thfl GOP regarding abortion no longer is in doubt. That they don't just us enthusiastically dissect the differences within the Democratic Party regarding abortion and same-sex marriages is a troubling example of poor journalism, (newspaper writing)
*The material is taken from "Longman Student Grammar of Spoken and Written English Workbook" by Susan Conrad, Douglas Biber, Geoffrey Leech, Pearson Education Limited, 2003. - P. 75.