Exercise 1

Date: 2015-10-07; view: 506.

Complex Sentences with Adverbial Clauses of Concession

Analyse the moods of the verbs in bold type and point out the modal verbs used in adverbial clauses of concession.

1. I don't believe in children being slaves of habit, however small they are (Bennet).

2. The sun was hot now although the breeze was rising (Hemingway).

3. But even if that day never comes,Cora and I still had what you can't destroy (Wilson).

4. However numerous they may bethey are all to be seen (Dickens).

5. Whatever Charlie Potts may have beenhe certainly was unsuccessful (Joseph).

6. Really, his family remained hopelessly provincial, however much of London they might possessbetween them (Galsworthy).

7. For years he had been sure that though the inevitable might happento others it could not happen to him (Dreiser).

8. He did not propose to lose her whatever she might think (Dreiser).

9. He had done a foolish and a contemptible thing which was not warranted however bad her actions might have been(Dreiser).

10. Though she could not standwithout support, she managed by clinging to the bed to reach a chair (Bennet).

11. Nevertheless Sophia had been determined whatever should happento complete an honest fumigation of the entire flat (Bennet).[17]

12. Even if Bart should be held upat the last moment as he was last Sunday, she wouldn't let it upset her (Cusack).

13. Erik carried the books silently down to he office, picked up his hat and coat as though he werein a daze and left the building (Wilson).

14. How find out why without appearing to take interest? And suddenly she thought: “Even if I could I wouldn't. Anything that matters he must tell me himself”(Galsworthy).

15. Whatever happenedshe would return to the five towns (Bennet).

16. Even if I had not seenthis magnificent canvas I should have known you anywhere as an artist (Cronin).

17. I always understood you did so as a form of expiation, even though you had askedDinny to marry you (Galsworthy).