Базовый курс английского языка - Эккерсли К.Э.
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1 But this could be expressed more neatly by saying "Hob's unwillingness in coming ... and his speed in going away..."
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"Oh, Priestley," he said, "you're the very man I wanted to see ... About that book of yours... you know, Spoken English or something ...
I forget the exact name ... did you-er-go over it carefully before it went to the printers?" So of course I said, "Good heavens, Grey, yes. You don't suppose I'd let them publish anything with my name to it without knowing whether they'd done it properly?"
So then he said:
"Well, look here-er-I don't want to hurt your feelings but, well, to put it bluntly, there are a lot of mistakes in it."
So I said:
"Really? That's interesting. Can you mention one off-hand?"
So he said:
"Well, you've got two in one sentence."
I guessed what was coming as a matter of fact. But I kept quiet about it. I pretended to think he was referring to some misprints I hadn't noticed, you see. So I just said:
"Hm! That's rather serious. I'm sorry about that. I went through it very carefully indeed before it was printed."
So he went on:
"Well, one of the mistakes may be a misprint. But the other can't be. You've put a preposition at the end of a sentence. And you put who for whom. You've put "Who's it by?" on the first page, and a little later you say, "It depends who you're speaking to". Everyone'll see it directly they pick the book up. They'll say, "That's a fine person to learn English from! Why, he can't talk it properly himself. Who does he expect to buy a book like that? And both you and your publishers will be laughed at."
So of course I said:
"Well, if anyone says that to me, I shall just say, 'Well, what's good enough for a Professor of Ancient Languages is good enough for me'." He said, " Professor of Ancient Languages? Who do you mean?" So of course I said: "You. You've just made the very mistakes you accuse me of. First you said, "That's a fine person to learn English from" (that's a preposition at the end of a sentence). Then you went on by
saying "Who does he expect to buy a book like that?" (that's who instead of whom). You said I and my publishers would be laughed at (a preposition at the end of the sentence), and you've just finished by saying "Who do you mean?" (that's another who instead of whom).
Of course he denied he said so. People like Grey never do admit they talk that way. Still, he knew all the time he had said it, so he began to say, "Oh, well, I was only saying what other people would say. Very likely they wouldn't speak correctly."
So I said, "You know perfectly well that you-and ninety-nine out of every hundred educated Englishmen-always talk like that."
So he said: "You don't know what you're talking about." You see? He'd put a preposition at the end of the sentence again!
Then he saw what he'd done and began correcting himself. Of course I couldn't help laughing, and that put him in a bad temper. He's not spoken to me since.
¦I УПРАЖНЕНИЯ
1. Объясните, почему в следующих предложениях употреблено слово whom, а не who:
1.1 met a boy whom you know.
2. Do you know the boy to whom I am referring?
3. Yes, I know the boy whom you mean.
4. He is the brother of a boy whom I taught.
5. There is the man whom I wrote the letter to.
Перепишите эти предложения в "разговорной форме".
2. Заполните пропуски местоимениями:
1 . is that boy?
2. That is the boy won the race.
3 . car is that new one?
4. To__did you give my best hammer?
5 . shall we ask about a new television set?
6 . goes there?
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7.1 don't know_____work this is.
8 . are you looking for? (of a person)
9. He is a person_I trust.
10. Solomon was a king to___the Queen of Sheba gave many gifts.
3. Придумайте предложения со следующими словосочетаниями:
laugh at; laugh about; speak of; speak to; wait for; wait at; put up with; put up; talk about; talk to; look for; look at; look after; remind ... to; remind... of; call in; call out; call for; pass down; pass by
4. Вставьте предлоги:
1. Lilian and Andrew live__Scotland.
2. Sir Winston Churchill thinks a preposition is sometimes a good
word to end a sentence______.
3. What did you do that____?
4. Five planes flew low the field which the men were working.
5. Come here____once!
6.1 am writing a pen my hand, I am sitting a chair a
table.
7. It is shady the trees the river.
8. The army marched______the bridge.
9. Professor Grey was not the sort____man______whom you could
argue.
10. He was never wrong______anything.
Сочинение
1. Подготовьте рассказ (письменно или устно) о мистере Пристли и профессоре Грее.
2. Расскажите о вашем знакомом, который никогда не ошибается.
QPOK 18
Some Strange, but Very Important Verbs. "The Specials" (1)
MR. PRIESTLEY: I wonder if you've noticed in our study of English grammar the strange behaviour of a group of verbs that we might call the "Peculiars" or the "Specials". They are a little band of rebels that insist on going their own way, refusing to be influenced by the behaviour of all the other verbs. Practically all of them are the verbs most frequently used in the language. You already know them all. There are only twelve of them. One or two of the group are not quite whole-hearted rebels-they are inclined sometimes, as you will see, to go over to the side of the majority-but the others are real out-and-out rebels. Here they all are with the related forms in brackets: be (am, is, are, was, were); have (has, had); can (could); do (does, did); shall (should); will (would); may (might); must; ought; need; dare; used to.
