Exercise 1. Find the cases of peculiar linkage, colloquial constructions and stylistic use of structural meaning
SYNTACTICAL DEVICES
1. Mark had always disliked redheaded males, with their white eyelashes, and puffy faces and thyroid eyes, and absurd self-confident mouths.
2. They pounded across new grass, circled tombstones, galloped along cinder paths, slid down grassy inclines, broke through hedges, trampled flower beds, tore past countless tombs.
3. "Your dress is fine," Judi reassured her and she honestly thought the other girl looked terrific. Scared, but very pretty.
4. "You don't know where she gone?" - "London, I'm sure. Shops and theatres."
5. She looked not at all unlike a girl appropriate to a big college weekend.
6. On the hall table were a couple of letters addressed to her. One was the bill. The other ...
7. Couldn't she see that it was not the paltry sum which was at stake but the whole principle of justice?
8. She was brought home on holidays and "grilled" as she had described it to Brad, about what she had leaded, how was her French, and would she please explain the reason for her most recent math grade.
9. These days he was smoking far too heavily but what else was there to do? He dared not to think.
10. He stood at the window. The wind was in the north; it was cold, clear, very blue sky, heavy ragged white clouds chasing across; the river blue, too, through the screen of goldening trees; the woods all rich with colour, glowing, burnished - an early autumn.
11. What was the good of discontented people who fitted in nowhere?
12. But I didn't want to do that again. I wanted time for me, for study, for work, for friends, for men.
13. All at once, electrically, a terminal vibrated in his brain... Why didn't the swelling put on pressure? Because - now it was his heart that jumped! - because it was not true oedema, but myx-oedema. He had it, by God, he had it. No, no, he must not rush. He must go cautiously, slowly, be sure.
14. "I just work here," he said softly. "If I didn't -" he let the rest hang in the air, and kept on smiling.
15. "Look what you did to Thanksgiving for everyone," Gayle said accusingly, and she wasn't wrong but without knowing it, they provoked it.
16. It (the hut) was all tidy, the corn put in the bin, the blankets folded on the shelf. The hurricane lamp on a nail.
17. -I'm going away for a while next month.
-You are! Where to?
-Venice.
-Venice! With Sir Clifford? For how long?
-For a month or so.
18. "Instead of asking themselves what is causing the headache or anaemia –" He broke off sharply. "Oh! I'm sorry! I'm boring you."
19. "Well, they'll get a chance now to show -" Hastily: "I don't mean - But let's forget that." (O'N.)
20. And Mrs. Bolton would come to Wragby at once, if Dr. Shardlow would let her off. She had another fortnight's parish nursing to do, by rights, but they might get a substitute, you know.
21. Oh, the more angel she, and you the blacker devil.
22. She had given up all her dreams. Andwhat was there to look forward to now? Nothing. All she ever wanted were children...but she had also wanted Andy.
23. It would have been more difficult if they had a child, not impossible, but harder to arrange.
24. What kind of doctor was he, to form at the very outset of his career, an attachment, which must hamper her future and was even now seriously interfering with his work?
25. Only you can hear and see, behind the eyes of the sleepers, the movements, and countries, and mazes, and colours, and dismays, and rainbows, and times, and wishes, and flight, and fall, and despair, and big seas of their dreams.
26. Rosita sniffed and in her well-bottom voice declared that yes, it was better that they stay out of the sun, as it seemed to be affecting Ottilie’s head.
27. How are they going to believe in abstinence if those who preach don't have their facts straight?
28. “But, John, you know I’m not going to the doctor. I’ve told you.” – “You’re going – or else.”
29. He drew his sword and stood face to face with Aragorn, surveying him keenly, and not without wonder.
30. No breakfast had she many a morning. No dinner many a noon.
31. But how was I to know then? What did I know of morphine? It was years before I discovered what was wrong. I thought she'd never got over her sickness, that's all. Why didn't I send her to a cure, you say? Haven't I? I've spent thousands upon thousands in cures! A waste. What good have they done for her?
32. Her attorney had told him, in no uncertain terms, that Mrs. Douglas was through with the marriage.
33. But there were no distractions now, only love and hope. And an avalanche of feelings, as she stood in the living room with her father.
34. They had come a long way in less than two years and most of the trip hadn't been unpleasant. It just didn't feel like much of a marriage, but Charlie felt sure that would change now.
35. Can she have a normal life if her entire existence has been flaunted like a media doll?
36. It suddenly felt as though they had something to celebrate, which was strange. But in a way they did. They had found each other again, and that was no small thing.
37. What sort of mother was she, she thought bitterly, to isolate one child in a sort of colour ghetto, to deny him the companionship of his own brother?