Exercise 5. Translate the following sentences.

Exercise 1. Use full inversion to lay a logical stress on the subject.

1. Then across the evening stillness, a blood-curdling yelp broke, and Montmorency left the boat. 2. And that dog was here again, carrying something in its mouth. 3. Every time one of the Hydra’s heads was cut off, two more heads grew in its place. 4. About a mile off, in a quiet, substantial-looking street, an old redbrick house stood with three steps before the door. 5. In this shelf of snow a human being lay fighting death. 6. An owl could be heard hunting nearby, and coyotes barking. 7. Kindness was in his voice - something of which White Fang had no experience whatever. 8. A neat laurel hedge stretched along the bank. 9. Helen’s fame was sung from city to city, from isle to isle.

Exercise 2. Change the pronoun in the sentences given bellow for the noun given in brackets.

1. And now here they were at the Savoy devouring olives. (the travellers) 2. Look! There it goes! (our bus) 3. Here they are. (your documents) 4. There it is. (your money)

Exercise 3.

A) Emphasise the adverbial particles by using inversion.

1. Suddenly the landlady bounced in. 2. There’s something in this for me! And the girl went down there again. 3. Mr. Pickwick's head went out again. 4. So Hudson trots out along the driveways, deep in thought. 5. When somebody came into the store, the waiter was up, offering service. 6. When it was safe to go out, the couple climbed down to the beach and sat on their clothes. 7. The dog took up the paper bag in his teeth, and gently shook it.

B) Replace the nouns in the emphatic variants above by pronouns.

Full inversion is used to emphasise the predicative: “Great was my surprise at hearing that”.

Exercise 4. Emphasise the predicative.

1. The night is tender. 2. Mr.Weller’s indignation was violent as he was borne along the street. 3. That night was so cold that I put on underwear over the pyjamas. 4. The attack was too sudden for us to have time to escape. 5. Her efforts were quick and neat indeed, and soon she had her stockings on. 6. His strength was such that he could bend iron bars. 7. The vision was so beautiful that I was caught, dazzled by the colour and clarity of the light. 8. His perceptions are so sharp and delicate that he seems to me a real mind-reader. 9. He is blessed who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.

!!! Inversion is partial when the predicative is emphasised (placed at the beginning) in clauses of cause and concession: “Tired as I was, I fell asleep at once”; “Tired as (though) he was, he did not fell asleep at once”; “Youth that he was (=although he was a youth), they could never nerve themlves to question him”. Note the absence of article with the noun-predicative in the last case, and also the possibility of other variants of word order: “Tired as was the boy or “Tired as the boy was...”

Exercise 5. Translate the following sentences.

1. Great as its influence upon individual souls was, the new religion did not seriously affect the current of life. 2. Slender as was Jude Fawley’s frame, he bore the two brimming house-buckets of water to the cottage without resting. 3. Asleep as they were, they could definitely neither agree nor object. 4. The surprise of Mr. Tupman, great as it was, was immeasurably exceeded by the astonishment of the doctor. 5. Coward that he was, he could sometimes be unreasonably stubborn.

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