Контрольная «Parts of the sentence the predicate »,
Английская грамматика в Екатеринбурге

PARTS OF THE SENTENCE The Predicate Number1. 1. State the type of the predicate. 1. The place looked even more peaceful now than it used to look. 2. Be a sensible girl! All I am doing is trying to protect you. 3. She felt so ashamed because those were things that should not be boasted of. 4. No one, as is well known, has ever been able to describe beauty. 5. She decided that this time it must be a real affair. She would go crazy if something didn't happen to her soon. 6. The function of drama is to purify the spectators. 7. I was rather literary in college, and now I am going to become again the most limited of all specialists. 8. What a blessing it is to find someone who can be frank! 9. These young people must have been getting tired of seeing their own kind round them, but they wouldn't admit it. 10. Now and then I would see a sign that said "home-made sausage", and I would stop and lay in supplies. The sausage would be sweet and sharp. 11. And he is already beginning to feel glad to have me. 12. You can't go home because home has ceased to exist. 13. The only thing Old Jack Frost did for us was put a thin skin of ice on the water. 4. Define the type of predicate according to the different uses of "will, would, should, shall". 1. They were talking of the Universe, as young men will. 2. I wonder if you will do what you promised. 3. If you will wait a little, we could go together. 4. If you take a cab, you will get there on time. 5. Who would have believed you in such a situation! 6. He said he would wait just another five minutes. 7. And you, evidently, will be his notorious brother? 8. Sometimes he would return early and go to bed at once. 9. I won't go if you won't come with me. 10. He certainly told a lie, but who wouldn't, in his position? 11. Jesus said, thou shall do no murder, Thou shall not steal. 12. Shall I open the window? Number 5.State the type of the verb "be". 1. What colour is her hair? 2. When is the wedding to be? 3. What were you told there? 4. When is your birthday? 5. There were six of us in the room. 6. The important thing is to get there on time. 7. There is no changing the past. 8. He is the greatest crook that ever was! 9. Unfortunately he is not in now. 10. The book was nowhere to be found. 11. Not all people believe that God is. 7. Point out a double predicate and translate the sentences into Russian. 1. She turned away from such troubles to Judy, who was sitting so neat and quiet in her first black evening dress. 2. His book lay open just as he had left it. 3. Crome awoke stiff and unconscious of where he was. 4. The sunlight sifted golden and heavy through the pines. 5. The poplar tops showed sharp and dense against the sky. 6. The baby was born very small and weak.