Exercise 8
Analyse the subordinate and coordinate clauses joined asyndetically and answer the following questions:
1. Which subordinate clauses can be joined asyndetically? 2. In which subordinate clauses joined asyndetically should the word order be inverted? 3. What are the semantic relations between the coordinate clauses joined asyndetically?
1. It's time we were all sent to a boarding-school (Doyle).
The fact was he did not understand them (Galsworthy).
I don't wonder that May the eleventh is becoming such a popular date all over America and I am sure the idea will spread to England too (Leacock). 4. So we decided that we'd make it a great day, a holiday for all the family, and do everything we could to make Mother happy (Leacock). 5. "You really did act very well indeed," he said in a low voice, " and you are quite right; I would not have clapped so heartily had I not thought so." (Molesworth). 6. Now she was so tired she could not drag herself upstairs to dress (Mansfield). 7. I thought it was time we had a little meeting (Wilson). 8. Even had Hurstwood returned in his original beauty and glory, he could not now have allured her (Dreiser). 9 Another thing was they had nurse Andrews staying on with them that week (Mansfield). 10. I think Reardon will talk, once he's convinced there's connection between the letter and the murder (Strange). 11. The first time I met her we had played bridge together (Maugham). 12. He might indeed, were he coming on foot, be making his way by any one of three different paths, and his driving was never to be counted upon (Molesworth). 13. For that reason, it seemed he took up with those queer girls (G. Greene). 14. I fear
we may have to wait a few moments for Sir Imney... (Sayers). 15. It ought to have been a city, and it would have been a city had not the only available cathedral been just inside an annoying little snob of a borough that kept itself to itself just outside the boundaries of the real and proper town (Cop-pard). 16. So he put down the sail he was sewing, and got up from the table (G. Greene). 17. This feeling had long been in Soames' breast, he had never put it into words (Galsworthy).
I had a feeling you'd left the door unlocked (G. Greene).
It is a pity your leg is hurting you (Galsworthy). 20. It's only by accident we've heard of it (Mansfield). 21. The fact was he did not understand them (Galsworthy). 22. You're an architect; you ought to know all about statues and things (Galsworthy). 23. A fly settled on his hair, his breathing sounded heavy in the drowsy silence, his upper lip under the white moustache puffed in and out (Galsworthy). 24. Old Jolyon told him to put his dress out; he was going to dine at the Club (Galsworthy). 25. Some elements in sentences have practical meaning; some have only grammatical meaning (Whitehall).
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