Functional styles

1. I … take thee … to my wedded wife / husband/ to have and to hold from this day and forward, for better for worse, for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish and to obey, till death us do depart, according to God’s holy ordinance; and thereto I plight thee my troth.

2. Mr. M.J. Fothergill-Smythe and Miss p.L. Howard-Thomson.

The engagement is announced between Malcolm James, youngest son of Captain C.G.E. Fothergill-Smythe and the late Mrs. Laura Fothergill-Smythe, of Fothergill Hall, Buntingford, Hertfordshire, and Penelope Lesley, younger daughter of Major H.C. Howard-Thomson and the late Mrs. Rosemary Howard-Thomson, of Dunromin, the Water Mill, Little Chalfont, Buckinghamshire.

3. If the first homo sapiens was very remote in time, the process by which DNA suffers random mutation would have left the men with distinct differences. Previous studies of DNA, which passes down the material line, suggest that this ancestor was alive somewhere about 100, 000 years ago. Now the male data points to the same conclusion. The DNA on the Y-chromosome shows no variation on and puts a limit of 270, 000 years on the African Adam.

4. I opened the packet and extracted the cards. They were on the order of tarots, with their wands, pentacles, cups, and swords, but the Greater Trumps were quite different. I replaced both drawers, being careful not to lock the smaller one, before I continued my inspection. They were almost lifelike in appearance, the Greater Trumps ready to step right out through those glistening surfaces. The cards seemed quite cold to my touch, and it gave me a distinct pleasure to handle them. I had once had a packet like this myself, I suddenly knew. I began spreading them on the blotter before me. The one bore a wily-looking little man, with a sharp nose and a laughing mouth and a shock of straw-colored hair. He was dressed in something like a Renaissance costume of orange, red and brown. He wore long hose and a tight-fitting embroidered doublet. And I knew him. His name was Random.

Next, there was the passive countenance of Julian, dark hair hanging long, blue eyes containing neither passion nor compassion. He was dressed completely in scaled white armor, not silver or metallic-colored, but looking as if it had been enameled. I knew, though, that it was terribly tough and shock-resistant, despite its decorative and festive appearance. He was the man I had beaten at his favorite game, for which he had thrown a glass of wine at me. I knew him and I hated him.

5. AU REVOIR STELLA?

By EVELYN NUSSENBAUM

Paris is buzzing with rumors that designer Stella McCartney is unhappy at Chloe and may go to a competitor, according to a published report. The 28-year-old daughter of ex-Beatle Paul McCartney has injected new life into the aging French couture house with her sexy, feminine designs. Her silk-screened animal T-shirts and signature sunglasses are a favorite of fashion magazines editors. Her easy manner has also made her popular with the fashion press. And she has brought in all-important celebrity clientele, including Madonna, Kate Moss and Cameron Diaz. Earlier this year Chloe said it had increased new accounts by 32 percent since McCartney came aboard in 1997, and that old accounts were buying more merchandise, resulting in double-digit sales growth. It did not give specific figures. McCartney was on vacation and could not be reached for comment. But Chloe Chairman and CEO Ralph Toledano told Women’s Wear Daily that “I do not believe for a moment that Stella McCartney will leave the house of Chloe.” Toledano was named the head of Chloe in May. At that time he praised McCartney’s collections, and said he planned to develop “many other products around her style and who she is.” Her contract is reportedly up next March; but she must inform management at Chloe and parent company Vendome by next month whether or not she will renew it. Several fashion houses, eyeing the rapid sales growth at Chloe, are supposedly looking to lure her away. At least one, said the report, is looking to copy the house of Yves St. Laurent – hiring an older designer for couture and a young, hip one for ready to wear. Private backers have reportedly contacted her about setting up her own label as well. McCartney produced two collections under her own name before coming to Chloe.

6. Sri Lanka – Parliament is likely to hold a session in Colombo to vote on a draft constitution that aims to end the country’s separatist war by giving autonomy – but not independence to the minority Tamils.

7. We, the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

Article I

Section 1. All legislative powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and a House of Representatives.

8. It goes without saying that many adjectives and participles convey the meanings of various states irrespective of their analogy with statives.

Second, turning to the combinability characteristics of statives, we see that, though differing from those of the common adjectives in one point negatively, they basically coincide with them in the other points.

Third, analysing the functions of the statives correspondingly to its combinability patterns, we see that essentially they do not differ from the functions of the common adjective.

Fourth, from point of view, it would be quite consistent with the actual lingual data to place the stative strictly out of the category of comparison. As we have shown above, the category of comparison is connected with the functional division of adjectives into evaluative and specificative.

As we see, our final conclusion about lexico-grammatical nature of statives appears to have returned them into the lexemic domain in which they were placed by traditional grammar and from which they were alienated in the course of subsequent linguistic investigations. A question then arises, whether these investigations, as well as the discussions accompanying them, have served any rational purpose at all.

The answer to this question, though, can only be given in the energetic affirmative.

9. Spring had come early that year, with warm quick rains and sudden frothing of pink peach blossoms and dogwood dappling with white stars the dark river swamp and far-off hills. Already the plowing was nearly finished, and the bloody glory of the sunset colored the fresh-cut furrows of red Georgia clay to even redder hues. The moist hungry earth, waiting upturned for the cotton seeds, showed pinkish on the sandy tops of furrows, vermilion and scarlet and maroon where shadows lay along the sides of the trenches. The whitewashed brick plantation house seemed an island set in a wild red sea, a sea of spiraling, curving, crescent billows petrified suddenly at the moment when the pink-tipped waves were breaking into surf. For here were no long, straight furrows, such as could be seen in the yellow clay fields of the flat middle Georgia country or in the lush black earth of the coastal plantations. The rolling foothill country of north Georgia was plowed in a million curves to keep the rich earth from washing down into the river bottoms.

It was a savagely red land, blood-colored after rains, brick dust in droughts, the best cotton land in the world. It was a pleasant land of white houses, peaceful plowed fields and sluggish yellow rivers, but a land of contrasts, of brightest sun glare and densest shade. The plantation clearings and miles of cotton fields smiled up to a warm sun, placid, complacent. At their edges rose the virgin forests, dark and cool even in the hottest noons, mysterious, a little sinister, the soughing pines seeming to wait with an age-old patience, to threaten with soft sighs: "Be careful! Be careful! We had you once. We can take you back again."

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11. FIRST ACT

SCENE

Morning room of Lord Windermere’s house in Carlton House Terrace. Doors C. And R. Bureau with books and papers R. Sofa with small tea table L. Window opening on to terrace L. Table R.

LADY WINDERMERE is at table R., arranging roses in a blue bowl.

Enter PARKER.

Parker: Is your ladyship at home this afternoon?

Lady Windermere: Yes – who has called?

Parker: Lord Darlington, my lady.

Lady Windermere(hesitates for a moment): show him up – and I’m at home to any one who calls.

Parker: Yes, my lady. (Exit C.)

Lady Windermere: It’s best for me to see him before to-night. I’m glad he’s come.

12.

University of Westminster

18 Euston Centre

London NW1 3 ET

United Kingdom

August 3, 2003

Dear Professor Stone,

Our laboratory intends to embark on research into X-ray structural analysis of different biological substances. We wish to investigate the influence of particle additions on the polypeptide crystal structure. Meanwhile, we have started collecting literature along these lines. With this purpose in view we are writing to inquire whether you are able to supply us with a list of references or with any information you have on hand.

Perhaps you can also mention some other prominent researchers engaged in the same experiment to whom I may turn with the same inquiry.

We trust you will likewise be interested in such contacts. Please accept my apologies for the inconveniences I have occasioned you. Looking forward to hearing from you and with best regards,

Sincerely yours,

Alfred P. Parker

Chief of the Sander’s Laboratories

13. Low self-esteem ‘shrinks brain’

By Pallab Ghosh

BBC Science correspondent

People with a low sense of self worth are more likely to suffer from memory loss as they get older, say researchers.

The study, presented at a conference at the Royal Society in London, also found that the brains of these people were more likely to shrink compared with those who have a high sense of self esteem.

Dr Sonia Lupien, of McGill University in Montreal surveyed 92 senior citizens over 15 years and studied their brain scans.

She found that the brains of those with low self-worth were op to a fifth smaller than those who felt good about themselves.

These people also performed worse in memory and learning texts.

14. Ferry firms step up car searches

COMPULSORY vehicle checks for illegal immigrants are to be started in Zeebrugge within the next few weeks, following the success of the P&O Stena crackdown on ferry stowaways in Calais.

It is expected that private security staff, paid for by P&O Stena, will begin searching lorries and cars waiting to board its Dover-bound ferries. The company fears illegal immigrants are now aware of the crackdown in Calais and are diverting to other ports. Discussion with port authorities are already under hand.

15. That was in May. In November a cold, unseen stranger, whom the doctors called Pneumonia, stalked about the colony, touching one here and there with his icy fingers. Over on the east side this ravager strode boldly, smiting his victims by scores, but his feet trod slowly through the maze of the narrow and moss-grown “places”.

16.

‘ – ’lo?’

‘Jeff mate, it’s me, Scott. How ya doing?’

‘ ’m OK.’

‘Fancy a pint tonight?’

‘All right.’

‘See you in the Coach & and Horses in twenty minutes?’

‘All right.’

17. «Whenever, Wherever»

Lucky you were born that far away so

So we could both make fun of distance

Lucky that I love a foreign land for

The lucky fact of your existence

Baby I would climb the Andes solely

To count the freckles on your body

Never could imagine there were only

Too many ways to love somebody

Lo ro lo le lo le

Lo ro lo le lo le

Can't you see...I'm at your feet

Whenever, wherever

We'll learn to be together

I'll be there and you'll be near

And that's the deal my dear

They're over, you're under

You'll never have to wonder

We can always play by ear

But that's the deal my dear

Lucky that my lips not only mumble

They spill kisses like a fountain

Lucky that my breasts are small and humble

So you don't confuse them with mountains

Lucky I have strong legs like my mother

To run for cover when I need it

And these two eyes are for no other

The day you leave we'll cry a river

Lo ro lo le lo le

Lo ro lo le lo le

At your feet...I'm at your feet

Whenever, Wherever

We're meant to be together

I'll be there and you'll be near

And that's the deal my dear

They're over, you're under

You'll never have to wonder

We can always play by ear

But that's the deal my dear

Lo ro lo le lo le

Lo ro lo le lo le

sink or fly, say it again

Lo ro lo le lo le lo le

Tell me one more time

That you'll live

Lost in my eyes

Whenever, wherever

We'll learn to be together

I'll be there and you'll be near

And that's the deal my dear

They're over, you're under

You've got me head over heels

There's nothing left to fear

If you really feel the way I feel

Whenever, wherever

We're meant to be together

I'll be there and you'll be near

And that's the deal my dear

They're over, you're under

You've got me head over heels

There's nothing left to fear

If you really feel the way I feel

18. LONDON, SE & CENT S EGLAND, E ANGLIA, MIDLANDS, CENT N & NE ENGLAND, E ENGLAND: Rather cold but bright with sunny spells and just isolated showers. A brisk south-west wind. Max temp 6-9C (43-48F).

19. 1. THE MAIN PROBLEM – A SATISFACTORY DEFINITION OF TRUTH.

Our discussion will be centered around the notion⁴ of truth. The main problem is that of giving a satisfactory definition of this notion, i.e., a definition which is materially adequate and formally correct. But such a formulation of the problem, because of its generality, cannot be considered unequivocal, and requires some further comments.

In order to avoid any ambiguity, we must first specify the conditions under which the definition of truth will be considered adequate from the material point of view. The desired definition does not aim to specify the meaning of a familiar word used to denote a novel notion; on the contrary, it aims to catch hold of the actual meaning of an old notion. We must then characterize this notion precisely enough to enable anyone to determine whether the definition actually fulfills its task.

Secondly, we must determine on what the formal correctness of the definition depends. Thus, we must specify the words or concepts which we wish to use in defining the notion of truth; and we must also give the formal rules to which the definition should conform. Speaking more generally, we must describe the formal structure of the language in which the definition will be given.

The discussion of these points will occupy a considerable portion of the first part of the paper.

20. My fellow citizens!

I am sorry to interrupt you in the middle of a pleasant day when you are relaxing after a busy week of work. It is beautiful here in Washington today, and I understand it is pretty much the same all across the country – really the first day of summer for all of us. So I am grateful to you for taking a few minutes to listen to me.

I would not take your time for anything less than a question of grave concern to every American. For some of us in the White House that has been a week of heave trial, and in some respects of heartbreak and deep disappointment. There are three matters on which I felt it was my duty to report to you without delay(…)

(…) Somewhere, this afternoon, there are listening men who will one day occupy this office. I would betray my obligation to them and to their generation of Americans, as well as my duty to the past and to all of you today, if I failed to act as I have. Good-bye, and God bless you all.

21. Message Jones

You appear to have forgotten your skirt. As

I think is made perfectly clear in your

contract of employment, staff are expected

to be fully dressed at all times.

Cleave

Hah! Undeniably flirtatious. Thought for a little while whilst pretending to study tedious-beyond-belief manu­script from lunatic. Have never messaged Daniel Cleaver before but brilliant thing about messaging system is you can be really quite cheeky and informal, even to your boss. Also can spend ages practising. This is what sent.

Message Cleave

Sir, am appalled by message. Whilst skirt

could reasonably be described as a little

on the skimpy side (thrift being ever our

watchword in editorial), consider it gross

misrepresentation to describe said skirt as

absent, and considering contacting union.

Jones

22.

Patent Specification 1264345

DRAWINGS ATTACHED

Application № 39469/ 69

Filed 6 August 1969

Complete Specification filed 28 July 1970

Complete Specification published 23 Feb. 1972

International Classification F:22 D 1/ 02

Index at Acceptance F 4A 8C G17

Inventors

Gabriel Francis Foldes

Peter William Neve

Improvements in and relating to steam boilers

23. – Jeat jet?

• What?

• Jeat lunch yet?

• I’ll eat when I get home. My mother always has lunch ready for me when I get home.

• I got a half chicken sandwich in my room. Ya want it? I didn’t touch it or anything.

• No, thank you. Really.

• You just played tennis for Chrissike. Aren’tcha hungry?

24. It was a day any bride would wish for – brilliant sunshine, everything went clockwork and there were no embarrassing mishaps.

The wedding of Prince Charles to Camilla Parker Bowles attracted thousands of onlookers on to the streets of Windsor, keen to catch a glimpse of the couple before and after the civil ceremony at the Guildhall.

A frosty start did little to dampen the spirits of the couple of hundred fans who took up the best positions opposite the venue, hours before the couple were due.

One family of six had camped in two tents on the concrete footpaths since midnight.

With a gas stove for heating water for their hot water bottles, they looked well-settled and happy with their position as the crowds gathered around them.

“We got woken at 3 a.m. by the press people setting up and I heard police dogs at 4 a.m.,” said Gwen Murray, from Norfolk.

“It was cold and noisy.”

Surrounded by her daughters and two granddaughters, she said: “It’s so easy just to sit and watch it on TV, but we wanted to be parted of it.”

A veteran of royal events, she had camped for three nights for Charles and Diana’s wedding – “it was summer then and a lot warmer” – Princess Anne’s and the Duke York’s as well as the Queen’s Mother’s 101^st birthday.