Unit I. Appearance and character grammar: complex object. Adverbial clauses of time

Ex. 76. How many of these words can form opposites with the suffix
-less? Can you think of words which mean the opposite of the other words (the ones without -less)?

painful, wonderful, useful, careful, beautiful, tactful, awful, thoughtful

Ex. 77. Think of three adjectives which could describe each of these people or things. (You can use the same adjective more than once).

1. 
   the weather
   
2. 
   someone who is a very bad driver
   
3. 
   Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
   
4. 
   a large city
   
5. 
   Albert Einstein
   
6. 
   a new car
   
7. 
   a speech
   
8. 
   yourself
   

ARTICLE with the names of parts of the body

The use of articles with the names of parts of the body is similar to the use of articles with ordinary class nouns, e.g.

She has a weak heart.
The heart of the patient needs an operation.
When the heart stops, the man dies.

However, there many prepositional set expressions connected with parts of the body that have some abstract adverbial meaning marked by the zero article, such as: by hand, at hand, on foot, from head to foot, head over heels, from top to toe, off-hand, eye to eye, by heart, at heart, on foot, etc. For example:

Don’t take the news close to heart.
He sees eye to eye with his boss.
She is head over heels in love with him.
Yet, in other set expressions, you will find both the indefinite and definite article with these nouns that can never be changed and should be memorized because they are part of phraseological units, e.g.
He likes to have a finger in every pie. ( = have interest in everything)
He doesn’t have the heart to propose to her. ( = have enough courage)