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Introduction
PRACTICE 2
(to be uploaded in swad deadline Thursday, 4th Oct.)
Leech et al (1982: 17) THIS CAN BE ADAPTED
1. Try to justify why the following statements are true or false:
(a)
(b)
I can recommend this candidate for the post for which he applies
with complete confidence.
(r)
I aint going nowhere tonight.
(s)
We need more comprehensive schools.
(t)
To was or not to was, that be the ask.
(u)
There lives the dearest freshness deep down things.
(v)
How are you, it has a long time that we dont have heard from you
again.
Gramtica Inglesa I
Introduction
(w)
I gave him the present that I had bought in the shop in which I had
met the man to whose house I went yesterday.
(x)
Him and me are going to the beach today.
(y)
Eggs should be stamped with the date when they are laid by the
farmer.
(z)
This is the sort of English up with which I will not put.
3. (Fiesta by Hemingway) Grammatical tests
Using substitution, expansion and reduction convert the selected phrases in the
following text into longer or shorter units as necessary. Optionally, You can also
try to transform some of them (transformation) if you feel this is possible.
(At the hotel) (I) paid (the driver) and gave (him) (a tip). (The car) was (full of
dust). (I) rubbed (the trunk) (through the dust). (It) seemed (the last thing that
connected me with Spain) and (the Fiesta). (The driver) started (the car) and
went (down the street). (I) watched (it) turn off to take (the road to Spain). (I)
went (into the hotel) and (they) gave (me) (a room). (It) was (the same room).( I)
had slept in when Bill and Cohn and I were in Bayonne.