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Clauses

Antecedents

Every

As well as

Or-connectors

Neither Helen nor I (am / is / are) planning to attend the conference.

Not only all the teachers but even the director herself (was / were) shocked.

Mr.Henry, together with his wife and children, (plans / plan) to visit Crater Lake.

An engine with a number of cars (was / were) creeping up the hill.

Each of the answers (is / are) correct.

Either of the answers (is / are) correct.

It's necessary to involve every man, woman and child who (is / are) willing to help.

None of us (understands / understand) it.

All (was / were) in favor of the plan.

He is one of those boys who (is / are) always willing to take on another task.

Who (was / were) supposed to apply to her for permission?

Who (was / were) to be the subjects of their piracies?

Where you found him (does / do) not concern me.

What were once precious manuscripts (was / were) scattered all over the floor.

What I say and what I do (is / are) my own affair.

It (was / were) only English girls who could be trusted to travel alone.

It (is / are) they who (is / are) responsible for the delay.

Exercise 5.2. Use the appropriate form of the verb.

1. 1. My school-mate and my new fellow-student (has, have) met at my place lately.

2. 2. Our old teacher and friend (is, are) dangerously ill.

3. 3. Our old teacher and our young friend (is, are) dangerously ill.

4. 4. When (is, are) your grandson and your granddaughter coming to see you?

5. 5. The family (was, were) sitting round the table.

6. 6. A number of people (was, were) standing on the river bank.

7. 7. The number of books in my library (has, have) increased.

8. 8. "The two Gentlemen of Verona" (is, are) a comedy by Shakespeare.

9. 9. The red and green plaid (is, are) on the sofa.

10. 10. The gray and the black puppy (was, were) sleeping on the rug.

11. 11. The cattle (was, were) grazing in the field.

12. 12. Twenty rubles (is, are) not much for this nice coat.

13. 13. The wounded (was, were) transported to the hospital.

14. 14. The works (consists of, consist of) different shops.

Exercise 5.3. Replace the infinitives in brackets by the correct form of the verb. Sometimes, two variants are possible.

1. 1. Another three meters (to be) bought for the girl's dress.

2. 2. Each and every one of you (to be) good.

3. 3. Presently all (to be) quiet again.

4. 4. It (to be) I who (to be) on duty today.

5. 5. I (to be) afraid it (to be) you, Tom, who (to be) in the way.

6. 6. Three and a half dollars a day (to be) not a lot of money.

7. 7. Either of the books (to be) interesting.

8. 8. There (to be) lots of history and biography.

9. 9. There (to be) a lot in what you say.

10. 10. There (to be) a dozen people there.

11. 11. The police, of course, (to be) helpless.

12. 12. He thought, that the remainder of the crowd, who (to be) waiting downstairs, could not hear him.

13. 13. The French (to see) these things differently from us.

14. 14. How foolish the old (to be), thinking they can tell what the young (to feel).

15. 15. Have some bread and butter. The bread and butter (to be) on the counter.

16. 16. A box as well as a book (to be stolen).

17. 17. None of them (to be going) to get against me.

18. 18. The Himalayas (to be) the eastern end of a great series of folded mountains.

19. 19. The works (to be) to be closed.

20. 20. The ten years he had lived in the North (to have changed) him greatly.

21. 21. My brother as well as I (to be) ready to accompany you to the station.

22. 22. There's just one or two little things that (to be worrying) me, doctor.

23. 23. Every man, woman, and child in the city (to be) there.

24. 24. The majority of the people (to have) their minds made up.

Exercise 5.4. Use the appropriate form of the verb.

1. 1. Huckleberry's hard pantings _____his only reply. (was, were) (Twain)

2. 2. There _____ many a true word spoken in jest, Mr.Cokane. (is, are) (Show)

3. 3. On such meetings five minutes _____ the time allotted to each speaker. (was, were) (London)

4. 4. It was dark and quiet. Neither moon nor stars _____ visible. (was, were) (Collins)

5. 5. To be the busy wife of a busy man, to be the mother of many children _____, to his thinking, the highest lot of woman. (was, were) (Trollope)

6. 6. "Well," says my lady, "_____ the police coming?" (is, are) (Collins)

7. 7. She is supposed to have all the misfortunes and all the virtues to which humanity _____ subject, (is, are) (Trollope)

8. 8. Ratterer and Hegglund, as well as most of the others, _____satisfied that there was not another place in all Kansas City that was really as good. (was, were) (Dreiser)

9. 9. There _____ a great many ink bottles. (was, were) (Dickens)

10. 10. It was as if the regiment _____ half in khaki, half in scarlet and bearskins. (was, were) (Galsworthy)

11. 11. There _____ a number of men present. (was, were) (Walpole)

Exercise 5.5. Analyze the subject and the predicate.

1. 1. On her going to his house to thank him, he happened to see her through a window.

2. 2. To describe one's character is difficult and not necessarily illuminating.

3. 3. Nothing seemed to matter.

4. 4. To be wanted is always good.

5. 5. I came to know many Negroes, men and women.

6. 6. Elaine, this ill-advised behavior of yours is beginning to have results.

7. 7. They must have gone through the service doors into the kitchen quarters.

8. 8. It is no use trying to run away from them.

9. 9. No one got the better other, never, never.

10. 10. Lewis stopped dead at the corner, staring in blank astonishment after these two figures.

11. 11. We and all the people have been waiting patient for many an hour.

12. 12. One cannot help admiring the fellow.

13. 13. There all men could be equally valuable as human beings.

14. 14. We must begin here and now to show.

15. 15. But for the accident he would have got there all right.

16. 16. Would you come a little later?

17. 17. He simply would not answer.

18. 18. You will get out of here and you will stay out.

19. 19. Nothing will make me change my mind.

20. 20. It does not make sense.

21. 21. She wasn't born blind like the other children.

22. 22. It must have seemed natural to use the caves in the cliff for storing things at the time.

6. OBJECT

Exercise 6.1. Find objects in the following sentences and say what they are expressed by.

1. 1. I should insist on my husband improving me, or else we part.

2. 2. She pulled out a cigarette and held it between her lips.

3. 3. Could they prevent flying in war time?

4. 4. Haviland closed the door.

5. 5. He now held him responsible for his wife's death.

6. 6. I remember seeing you once.

7. 7. He found it impossible to utter the next word.

8. 8. Jane always championed the unfortunate.

9. 9. He found a number of persons in the Morse home.

10. 10. It cost me a pretty penny.

11. 11. He couldn't afford to buy it.

12. 12. He saw someone coming toward them.

13. 13. She made it clear from the beginning that she had come on purpose.

14. 14. You ought to know all about statues and things.

15. 15. He said hi several times but got no response.