Exercise 1

Date: 2015-10-07; view: 560.

Complex Sentences with Adverbial Clauses of Purpose

Analyse the moods of the verbs in bold type and answer the following questions:

1. What moods are used in adverbial clauses of purpose?

2. Is the sequence of tenses observed in adverbial clauses of purpose after the indicative and the oblique moods in the principal clause?

1. Mr. Fox and I hold an open house for all the members of the staff so that the new men can meet everyone else (Wilson)[9].

2. In the pantry every cup was hung on a hook, every wineglass was lightly wedged in a fitting so that it could dash itself against another wineglass (Bennet).

3. These committees investigate various areas of our national life so that they may gather proper information (Wilson).

4. He turned on the other side so that he might see the reality of the world (O'Henry).

5. I will not make a noise lest I should disturb you (Poutsma).

6. They drove with both windows closed so that the Vicar should not catch cold (Maugham).

7. She took to pronouncing words carefully, lest she say things like “goil” for “girl”…(Smith).[10]

8. It means that we all have to get on the ground floor so that everyone starts even (Wilson).

9. Moon kept jerking the table cloth so that it all hung down her side and Sun hadn't any and then she pretended she didn't do it on purpose (Mansfield).

10. I'm saving every cent I can out of your pay so that next year both of you will be back in school (Smith).

11. They climbed down the three flights of stairs and crossed the back yard on tiptoe so that the snow would not come up over their rubbers (Saxton).

12. I am coming back to England early this year and would like to meet the girl straight away so that I can marry before the end of the year (Daily Worker).

13. We'd better exhume the body and make our own measurements … so that it may not be so easy for Mason to make any use of the tripod now that he has it (Dreiser).

14. He would have liked to probe into his sole so that he might see in its nakedness the dreadful dismay of the unknown which he suspected (Maugham).