English Grammar: a resource Book for Students
D (1) ‘Third of May 1958’, I replied. E
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English Grammar- A Resource Book for Students
D (1) ‘Third of May 1958’, I replied.
E (1) There was a long pause. (2) ‘That’s not what I have here,’ she intoned with an unexpected hint of menace. F (1) ‘I don’t know what to tell you,’ I stammered, ‘that is my birthday. (2) Has been since, well since, since 1958. (3) I’m 52,’ I added, even though she worked for a bank and so presumably had some basic arithmetic skills. (4) ‘What do you have as my birthday?’ I inquired. G (1) ‘I can’t tell you that,’ she said, ‘it’s a security question.’ H (1) ‘Right. (2) So I can’t pass security because I don’t know when you think my birthday might be which isn’t when I thought it was?’ C11 E X P L O R I N G T E X T S ( 3 ) : P U T T I N G I T A L L T O G E T H E R 177 I (1) I have reached a stage where I have so many different passwords in varying formats for such a range of activities that I began to wonder if I had in fact forgotten my birthday. (2) The upshot is that, having been with the same bank since I was 14, I now find myself having to prove to them who I am. (3) How absurd. (4) They must know who I am. (5) I spend quite a lot of time in a property that strictly speaking belongs to them. J (1) Proving who you are is a curious notion and should be reserved for people like Ötzi the Iceman. (2) It was today in 1991 that two German tourists (Helmut and Erika Simon, if you must know), were sauntering about a glacier on the Austrian– Italian border when they came across what they thought was someone who had recently spoiled a nice day out by dying. K (1) In fact, they had discovered Europe’s oldest natural human mummy. (2) Ötzi lived about 5,300 years ago, yet we know quite a lot about him. (3) He was roughly 5ft 5in, 107 pounds when he popped his bear skin, grass lined shoes. L (1) It’s remarkable really, but by poking around his tooth enamel archaeologists have worked out what village he came from, that his last venison supper was eaten in a ‘midaltitude conifer forest’, he probably worked in coppersmelting, often went for long walks and was poorly three times in the months before he died, for which he may well have had acupuncture. (2) All of this information gathered without him saying a thing or having a password. M (1) I don’t feel I need such rigorous analysis and think it would be nice if the bank could just believe me when I declare I know when I was born. (2) They weren’t even interested when I offered to get my mother to call and say she was there at the time. N (1) For a brief moment I understood what Betty and Barney Hill went through. (2) It was today in 1961 that something extraordinary happened to this rather ordinary American couple – they were abducted by aliens. (3) Not for long. (4) They were home the next day. Betty and Barney lived in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, where he worked for the Post Office and she was a social worker. O (1) Driving home from holiday they saw a bright light in the sky. (2) Soon an object with multicoloured lights was flashing above the place. (3) Naturally the road was entirely deserted as everyone knows there is nothing extraterrestrials hate more than a crowd. (4) When the thing began hovering over their 1957 Chevy, Barney did the only sensible thing – he got a gun which, like any selfrespecting American, he kept in the boot for bears, and went to have a closer look. P (1) He could see ‘about 8 to 11 humanoid figures’ looking at him through the space craft windows and decided now was a good time to depart. (2) The aliens, though, proved faster than a Chevy and nabbed them. Q (1) By the time the Hills got home they had torn clothing and a slight ringing in the ears. (2) They phoned the Air Force who helpfully decided the whole matter was clearly a misidentification of the planet Jupiter. (3) This failed to explain the Hills’ recollection of being aboard a discshaped craft where small men with big eyes poked at their teeth and genitals in a clumsy alien attempt at making intergalactic friends. (4) Needless to say no one believed the poor couple. R (1) Bankers seem like aliens to me. (2) Maybe I should let them have a poke at my teeth. (3) Of course, if they decide to have a go at my nether parts as well, I shan’t be the least bit surprised. 178 E X P L O R AT I O N Some difficult vocabulary laundering (money) turning money obtained through crime into ‘respectable’ money mummy a preserved dead body popped his . . . shoes ‘died’ poorly ill acupuncture a form of treatment for illness using needles extraterrestrials aliens, creatures from another planet 1957 Chevy a Chevrolet car built in 1957 humanoid resembling humans but not the same nabbed caught intergalactic from different galaxies nether parts genitals Tense (B6) Most of the article uses the past tense. However, there are places where the present tense (including present perfect) is used as well – paragraphs A, B and I, for example. Why is this so? (Ignore the tenses in direct speech.) Identifying and using the passive (A6, A11) There are six places in the text where an -ed word is preceded by a form of be; they are shown below. Some of these represent passives but others are combinations of the verb be (as opposed to auxiliary be) and an -ed adjective. Distinguish them and say why the passive is used in each case. B(1) I was asked . . . C(1) The operator was not satisfied . . . M(2) They weren’t even interested . . . L(1) his last venison supper was eaten . . . N(2) they were abducted . . . O(3) the road was entirely deserted . . . Complex sentences and subordinate clauses (A9, A10) a) Look at sentences H(2) and M(1). How many finite verb phrases (and therefore finite clauses) are there in each? b) How are they joined (i.e. what conjunction or subordinator is used)? c) How can we explain that some of the subordinate clauses have no explicit link? How could we make the links explicit? Download 1.74 Mb. Do'stlaringiz bilan baham: |
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