4. Insert: a) there, b) it

1. … are two sides to every question.

2. … is no place like home.

3. Is … a lamp on the table?

4. … is three kilometers to the city.

5. … was only yesterday that he came home.

6. … were many people in the room, … was stuffy.

7. … high time to begin our work.

8. At that moment … came a knock at the door.

9. I’m afraid … is no preventing it.

10. I’m sure … is a rule for it and … is not rule for you.

5. Insert: a) there, b) it

1. We must go to meet the bus. Wouldn’t do to miss … ?

2. … he that makes you talk to yourself in that silly way.

3. … was an eagerness and excitement in the faces of them.

4. … no use our wasting time talking about it.

5. … is a telephone on your table?

6. Will … be a concert tonight?

7. … must be some butter in the fridge.

8. While … is life … hope.

9. … lies a big dog there.

10. Have … been many apples this year?

6. Mark the type of the predicate in the sentences.

1. The girl looked tired but pretty.

2. It’s time we were making a move.

3. Ronald, jealous!

4. She stopped talking to him.

5. I had to bite my lips to prevent myself from laughing.

6. You are going to attend the college at Harvard, they tell me.

7. She couldn’t be happy.

8. During his lessons the students would sit and talk all the time.

9. It was the crying of a baby.

10. Mr. White made up his mind to visit Europe.

7. Mark the type of the predicate in the sentences.

1. Such an old lady to laugh so loudly.

2. When did life begin on earth?

3. Mr. White began to be rather ashamed.

4. They lit a fire on the edge of a wood.

5. It was a soft spring night.

6. She keeps interrupting me to talk over her impressions of this morning.

7. We used not to nod one another.

8. You ought to be more attentive.

9. Me trying to meet him again!

10. Repairs were being made right here in the friend.

8. Mark the type of the predicate in the sentences.

1. It was the crying of a baby.

2. Nell awakened in the near dark.

3. He is going on doing nothing in winter.

4. Rosa, good-looking!

5. Someone should call the police.

6. Ann started listening to the tape.

7. Mr. White made up his mind to visit Safari.

8. He thought of him with distance.

9. The playwright left.

10. He had fallen into a deep thought.

9. State what the underlined secondary part of the sentence is:

a) object; b) attribute; c) adverbial modifier

1. I saw the man on the steps of his house.

2. My father sent Collins a telegram.

3. It paint him to think of it.

4. It was a question of great importance.

5. The other day I met Mr. Nesfield, a promising poet.

6. He found himself in a lonely street.

7. He was afraid of dogs.

8. He sat still like a statue.

9. He said he would do it if necessary.

10. He is not a man to rely upon.

10. State what the underlined secondary part of the sentence is:

a) object b) attribute c) adverbial modifier

1. Suddenly touched she came over to his chair and kissed him.

2. Though tired, he agreed to accompany us.

3. It is very romantic to take a stroll by moonlight.

4. They heard him mention it.

5. It was foolish to speak like that.

6. But she died a dreadful death.

7. Even aunt Anna was there.

8. Mr. Winch, my tutor, was a classmate of my father.

9. We’ll try it tomorrow.

10. Their conversation was conducted with icy formality.