Ex. XII, p. 22
a)
1. The weather seems quite warm though it's only 5 *C above
zero.
2. The
children look tired, but they seem greatly please with the trip, don't they? 3. The
host and the hostess
look a big old-fashioned, but they seem to be hospitable and
friendly. 4. She seems to be very light-minded, but she only looks it, in fact she is a
very serious and hard-working student. 5. My brother says that people usually look
what they are and I believe that people are very often quite different from what they
seem to be.
b)
1. The teacher tried to explain the rule in a different way and I understood it at
once. 2. The schoolboy returned the book he had read and asked for another book,
but of a different kind, he said, as he wanted to have a rest from detective stories. 3.
I asked for a pair of shoes of a different kind, but the shop-girl said that the rest of
the shoes were not my size.
c)
1. A small stream runs along the road. 2. These steppes stretch to the south for
miles and miles. 3. The path ran across the field for a mile and then was lost in the
forest. 4. No matter how hard I looked, I saw only a vast plain stretching before me.
5. The ugly scar ran right across the man's left cheek. 6. For how many kilometres
does this forest stretch?
d)
1. I
like to sleep on a camp-bed, I find it very comfortable. 2. I believe Friday the
only
convenient day for our meeting, we have only four lectures on that day. 3.
Though the flat was rather comfortable, warm, light and cosy, it was not convenient
for our work as it was rather small. 4. These shoes are very convenient for wear in
wet weather as they have rubber soles.
e)
1. The two streams join at the foot of the mountain. 2. United we stand, divided
we fall. 3. One by one the children joined in the game. 4. The partisans' detachment
joined the regular army and the enemy lost the battle against their joint/united
forces. 5. All peace-loving people should unite in their struggle against a new war.
6. Won't you join me in a walk?
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