terminate
buy
get
purchase
Note also that such abbreviations as I'm, I've, I'll, you'd, you're, etc. are characteristic of
colloquial style. Therefore, students will be well advised to avoid them in their compositions, essays,
precis, etc.
B. The term style may be also used with reference to the manner of writing of some
particular author. E. g. Hemingway's style is characterized by laconism and lack of detail. The syntax
of his sentences is very simple, the dialogues are almost monosyllabic and seemingly unemotional.
Yet, through the austere form the author manages sometimes to create a narration of great tension.
ESSENTIAL VOCABULARY (I)
Words
ache υ, n
flue n
painful adj
avoid υ
foot n
pneumonia n
bare adj
medical adj
prescribe υ
barefoot adj predic, adv
medicine n
prescription n
bare-headed adj
miserable adj
shiver υ
condition n
naked adj
tremble υ
epidemic n
pain n
vacant adj
fever n
Word Combinations
to have (got) a headache
to give smth. up
to take one's (or smb.'s)
to make a note (notes) of smth.
temperature
so far
to bring down the fever
at the foot (head) of the bed
to be in (a) good (bad)
to read to oneself (aloud)
condition
to go to sleep (cf.: to fall asleep)
to live (work) under good
to stay (be) awake
(bad) condition (s)
flushed by the fever (anger,
to be in no condition to do smth.
excitement, etc.)
on condition that
to flush with
to write (put) smth. down
to take smth. easy
EXERCISES
1. Read the text and the Notes on Lexicology and Style and talk on the
following points (A. Grammar, B.Word usage, C. Style):
A. 1. Why does the author use or drop the definite article before the word bed in the
sentences: "We were still in bed." "You'd better go back to bed," "I sat at the foot of the bed."
2. Why is the Infinitive used with or without the particle to in the sentences: "Do you want
me to read to you?" "I heard him say a hundred and two."
3. In the sentence "It's nothing to worry about" ft is a personal pronoun. What noun does it
stand for? (Note: The English for «Нечего беспокоиться.» would be "There is nothing to worry
about.")
4. Tick off the sentences with the Infinitive used as an attribute.
5. Tick off all the complex sentences with clauses joined without the conjunction that, е.g. "I
know (that) he is ill."
B. 1. What did the father mean when he said "You'd better go back to bed"? (Add some
words to show the implication.)
2. Paraphrase the sentences: "I'd rather stay awake" and "just take it easy."
3. What is the difference between the boy's words "...if it bothers you" and "...if it's going to