Ex. 9. Read and explain the use of the genitive case.
1. For four months, since in the canteen she saw Jon’s tired smile, he had been one long thought in her mind. 2. Agnes was at her wit’s-end. 3. Since his illness, however, he had reluctantly abandoned this attempt to get twenty-four hours’ work out of each day. 4. ...the Radicals’ real supporters were the urban classes.
5. To Elizabeth it seemed that the lines with which fear had falsely aged his face were smoothed away, and it was a boy’s face which watched her with a boy’s enthusiasm. 6. For his honor’s sake Tom has got to commit suicide. 7. They were to leave the house without an instant’s delay and go at once to the river’s edge and go aboard a steamer that would be waiting there for them. 8. And he lifted his strange lowering eyes to Derek’s. 9. I was encouraged when, after Roger had proposed the guest of honor’s health, Lufkin got up to reply. 10. “Where are the children?” “I sent them to mother’s.’” 11. Philip heard a man’s voice talking quickly, but soothingly, over the phone. 12. Presently Rex was on his two miles’ walk to Offendene. 13. That early morning he had already done a good two hours’ work. 14. Bowen sat on the veranda of Buckmaster’s house. 15. Crime is the product of a country’s social order. 16. I spotted the bride’s father’s uncle’s silk hat on the seat of a straight chair across the room. 17. I spent Christmas at my aunt Emily’s. 18. We took some bread and cheese with us and got some goat’s milk up there on the pasture. 19. He was still thinking of next morning’s papers. 20. Why, for God’s sake, why must we go through all this hell? 21. A man stepped out from a tobacconist’s and waved to them, and the car slid to the kerb and stopped. 22. A woman’s love is not worth anything until it has been cleaned of all romanticism.
23. Her skin was as dry as a child’s with fever.
Ex. 10. Read and state the kind of the genitive case used in the following sentences:
1. He did not want to impose his sorrow on his friends' pleasure. 2. Wormwood Shrubs is a first offenders' prison. 3. The estate where they were to spend the week-end belonged to a cousin of Andrew’s. 4. Otto turned up at Arthur’s about a week later. 5. It was Robin’s turn now to be annoyed with what he felt to be the boy’s stubbornness. 6. Annie turned great frightened doll’s eyes upon him.
7. In stressing her mother-in-law’s peasant origin she found it easier to disregard her. 8. Professor’s life is little better than a high-grade clerk’s nowadays.
9. She did not ask him anything because she knew a sister’s place. 10. The street had not changed. There was the baker’s at the corner, and there was the butcher’s with the gilt ox head on the signboard. 11. I’m sure you know far more than they do about their country’s history. 12. The sun’s rays refracted in an intense glare from the chalk- white cliffs. 13. He looked expectantly at Maria, but she dilated her camel’s nostrils slightly and said: “I don’t give blank cheques.” 14. It was a habit of John’s not to tell you things and then assume that you knew all about them.
Ex. 11. Translate the following into English choosing between a noun in the genitive case and an of-phrase:
1. Ее кукольное личико выражало раздражение.
2. Он прошел через комнату секретарши, не глядя на нее.
3. Я провел неделю в гостях у друга моей матери, который живет в Лондоне.
4. Женский голос позади меня тихо произнес мое имя.
5. Это было решение опытного человека.
6. В сегодняшней вечерней газете есть длинная статья Питера на эту тему.
7. Джеральд поднял брови. «У тебя очень странные взгляды на обязанности отца», – сказал он.
8. На следующее утро я дала ребенку его первую бутылочку коровьего молока.
9. «Я не буду есть рыбу», – сказал Роберт с важностью старшего ребенка в семье.
10. Боюсь, что мы опоздаем к Джону.
11. Наступило минутное молчание.
12. Он имел обыкновение говорить о своей профессии как и собачьей жизни.
13. После университета в течение года или двух она преподавала им в хорошей женской школе на севере Англии.
14. Он никогда не забудет доброты своего друга.
15. Это был дом местного доктора, который был активным членом клуба.
16. До его работы было только несколько минут ходьбы.
17. Он пошел в аптеку.
18. Ее удивил ответ молодого человека на ее вопрос о его отцовских обязанностях.
19. Хозяин дома не живет в нем, но он иногда приезжает сюда на день или два.
20. Что может быть более естественно, чем желание матери узнать что-нибудь о молодом человеке, с которым встречается ее дочь?
21. Интерес больного к этому журналу легко объяснить.
22. У него было знание города, присущее таксисту.
23. Следующая встреча актрисы с режиссером произошла дни недели спустя.
24. Я не смог узнать, как зовут человека, который принес это письмо.