00500--Adjectives and adverbs - Exercise 1



Adjectives and adverbs - exercise 1

Write a few, a little, much or many to complete these sentences. Do not use some, any, or a lot of.

1 There's some food, but not ...... drink.
2 ............people arrived before the party started, but not many.
3 There's not ....................food in the cupboard.
4 She hasn't got ............................ friends.
5 T'm sorry, I haven't got .............................. time.
6 The receptionist didn't give me ..........................  information.
7 I can lend you ............................... money until tomorrow.
8 1 asked him to put ................................. milk in my coffee.
9 I've seen her ................................ Times this year, but not very often.
10 We only have ....................... petrol left.
11 She started feeling ill only ............................ days before the exam.
12 Not ............................... people come here in the winter.
13 Did they pay you .................................... money for working there?
14 There aren't ....................................... towns in this part of England.
15 I didn't drink ...................................... wine at the party.
16 There are only ...........................  people at the beach.
17 1 didn't have ............................ opportunity to talk to him.
18 The bank only lent me ..........................  money.
19 Can I ask you ............................. questions?
20 The journey was a short one: it didn't take ..........................  time.
21 Only ........................... students are going to fail the exam.
22 I don't think .......................  people will come tonight.
23 1 haven't done ............................ work today.
24 I gave the cat ............................. milk.
25 1 don't think I've made .....................................  mistakes.

ANSWERS

1 much 
2 A few 
3 much 
4 many 
5 much 
6 much 
7 a little 
8 a little
9 a few 
10 a little 
11 a few 
12 many 
13 much 
14 many 
15 much
16 a few 
17 much 
18 a little 
19 a few 
20 much 
21 a few 
22 many

23 much 
24 a little 
25 many

CONFUSABLES

00499--The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia/ summary/ criticism/ Sir Philip Sidney/ ARCADIA





The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia

 INTRODUCTION and CRITICISM


The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia, also known simply as the Arcadia, is a  pastoral romance written by Sir Philip Sidney towards the end of the 16th century. It has an  important place in the history of English literature as  it is the first pastoral romance in English just as Spenser's The Shepherd's Calendar is the first verse pastoral romance.  Arcadia includes a number of lyrics and eclogues after the classical style though it is written mainly in prose.  


ARCADIA is the name of a mountainous district in the Peloponese, the domain of Pan, the god of shepherds.  The poem was written solely for the amusement of Sydney's sister, the Countess of Pembroke.  There was no intention of making money or literary fame from this creation.  Sydney started writing ARCADIA in 1580.  Not only did he not publish it but he also expressed his wish to destroy it while on his deathbed.  However it was published in 1586 posthumously, and it brought him great  fame.

Everything in ARCADIA is on the ideal plane.  Both the story and setting are far removed from reality.  David Daiches remarks, "Ideal love, ideal friendship, and the ideal ruler are, directly and indirectly, discussed, suggested and embodied."  According to Daiches the style of Arcadia is "highly conceited, full of elaborate analogies, balanced parenthetical asides, pathetic fallacies, symmetrically answering clauses, and other devices of an immature prose entering suddenly into the world of conscious literary device."   One of Sidney's constant devices is to take a word and toss it till its meaning is fully extracted with all its aesthetic beauty.  Sidney's reference to the cool wine which seems "to laugh for joy" as it nears a lady's lips is an example of the pathetic fallacy.  There are other examples like the water drops that slip down the bodies of dainty seem to weep for sorrow.  When the princesses put on their clothes, the clothes are described as 'gold'.  





00498--PREPOSITIONS - EXERCISE 4




PREPOSITIONS - EXERCISE 4

Use the most suitable prepositions to complete these sentences. Sometimes more than one answer is possible.

1. The dog ran ........... the tree five or six times.
2. We flew slowly .......... the suburbs of Paris.
3. I moved the baby ......... the fire.
4. The police ran ................... the crowd and arrested a young man.
5. If you put some money ............... here, the machine will start.
6. They had nowhere to stay so they slept .............. a bridge.
7. The town hall is .............. the library and the museum.
8. We watched the soldiers as they walked ................. our house on their way to the ship.
9. They ran out of the dressing-room .............. the football pitch.
10. London is ............... the south-east of England.
11. The dog stood .................... the door and waited.
12. They walked hand-in-hand ...................... the side of the canal.
13. I didn't want my mother to see her present, so 1 held it ............... my back.
14. The cat jumped .................... my arms and ran away.
15. I threw the stone ....................... the sea.
16. The bottles fell .................... the lorry and rolled ..................the hill.
17. It was too dark to see so he walked slowly, holding his arms ............... him.
18. I put a chair .................... the door to stop anyone coming in.
19. We crawled ....................... a hole in the fence.
20. What have you got ............. your hand?
21. The cat was sitting ............... the cupboard, looking down at me.
22. I was frightened. I could see him walking ................... me, with a very angry look on his face.
23. I tied the string ...................... my waist.
24. If you are feeling sick, you should sit a ............... chair and put your head ................... your knees.
25. The cat jumped out of the tree .................... the roof of my car.

ANSWERS

1. round 
 2. over 
 3. away from 
 4. into/through 
5. in 
6. under 
7. between
8. past 
9. onto 
10. in 
11. at 
12. along 
13. behind 
14. out of
15. into/in 
16. off... down 
17. in front of 
18. against/behind 
19. through

20. in 
21. on top of/on 
22. towards 
23. round 
24. on ... between 

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