FSP-exercises
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- His left foot.
7 He’s dead now, isn’t he?
- Yes, he died in 1976.
8 I’d like to see some of Bruce Pearson’s work.
- Peardon, not Pearson.
9 How awful to have an accident after leaving the Navy.
- No, he was still in the Navy.
10 And he’s now an accomplished portrait painter?
- I think he’s mainly a landscape artist.
Exercise 186 Fronting
Decide whether the marked fronted elements are object, complement, adverbial or predicate. Then rewrite the sentences in unmarked word order.
Example: Immature and over-enthusiastic they said I was.
Answer: [Complement] They said I was immature and over-enthusiastic.
1 That sort of remark I can do without.
2 Objective it is not.
3 Unkind I call it.
4 They ´d said they weren’t going to criticize, but criticize they did.
5 To them I must have seemed a child.
6 Three or four cars these people would bring in at a time for servicing.
7 (an then) about some £10 item on the bill they’d grumble and grumble.
8 Always grumbling they were.
9 Millionaires they probably were,
10 (but) generous they were not.
11 This particular law nobody can defend.
12 About the need for a libel law nobody is arguing.
13 We can accept that needed it is.
14 In its present state the law cannot be seriously defended.
15 Still, unsatisfactory though it may be, we could end up with something worse.
Exercise 103 Emphasizing negation
We sometimes emphasize a negative meaning by putting a negative adverbial at the very front of the sentence. This usually requires inversion of the subject and operator if the negative negates the whole clause.
Rewrite the following sentences with the negative or near-negative word or phrase at the front.
Example: I never imagined that anything like that would happen to me
Answer: NEVER DID I IMAGINE that anything like that would happen to me. (inversion)
Example: I found that, not for the first time, I was wrong.
Answer: NOT FOR THE FIRST TIME, I found that I was wrong. (no inversion)
1 I flew to Egypt not long ago.
2 Nowadays people no longer go by sea
3 I haven’t been so impressed since I went to Mexico.
4 You won’t find a more amazing building than that pyramid anywhere.
5 Unfortunately I lost my wallet – not for the first time.
6 You little realize sometimes the trouble you can cause other people.
7 I have seldom heard such an extraordinary explanation.
8 You rarely discover the whole truth in these matters.
9 The guide didn’t once complain.
10 You hardly ever find such honesty.