1. For four months, since in the canteen she saw Jons tired smile, he had been one long thought in her mind. 2. Agnes was at her wits-end. 3. Since his illness, however, he had reluctantly abandoned this attempt to get twenty-four hours work out of each day. 4....the Radicals real supporters were the urban classes.
5. To Elizabeth it seemed that the lines with which fear had falsely aged his face were smoothed away, and it was a boys face which watched her with a boys enthusiasm. 6. For his honors sake Tom has got to commit suicide. 7. They were to leave the house without an instants delay and go at once to the rivers edge and go aboard a steamer that would be waiting there for them. 8. And he lifted his strange lowering eyes to Dereks. 9. I was encouraged when, after Roger had proposed the guest of honors health, Lufkin got up to reply. 10. Where are the children? I sent them to mothers. 11. Philip heard a mans voice talking quickly, but soothingly, over the phone. 12. Presently Rex was on his two miles walk to Offendene. 13. That early morning he had already done a good two hours work. 14. Bowen sat on the veranda of Buckmasters house. 15. Crime is the product of a countrys social order. 16. I spotted the brides fathers uncles silk hat on the seat of a straight chair across the room. 17. I spent Christmas at my aunt Emilys. 18. We took some bread and cheese with us and got some goats milk up there on the pasture. 19. He was still thinking of next mornings papers. 20. Why, for Gods sake, why must we go through all this hell? 21. A man stepped out from a tobacconists and waved to them, and the car slid to the kerb and stopped. 22. A womans love is not worth anything until it has been cleaned of all romanticism.
23. Her skin was as dry as a childs with fever.
Ex. 10. Read and state the kind of the genitive case used in the following sentences:
1. He did not want to impose his sorrow on his friends' pleasure. 2. Wormwood Shrubs is a first offenders' prison. 3. The estate where they were to spend the week-end belonged to a cousin of Andrews. 4. Otto turned up at Arthurs about a week later. 5. It was Robins turn now to be annoyed with what he felt to be the boys stubbornness. 6. Annie turned great frightened dolls eyes upon him.
7. In stressing her mother-in-laws peasant origin she found it easier to disregard her. 8. Professors life is little better than a high-grade clerks nowadays.
9. She did not ask him anything because she knew a sisters place. 10. The street had not changed. There was the bakers at the corner, and there was the butchers with the gilt ox head on the signboard. 11. Im sure you know far more than they do about their countrys history. 12. The suns rays refracted in an intense glare from the chalk- white cliffs. 13. He looked expectantly at Maria, but she dilated her camels nostrils slightly and said: I dont give blank cheques. 14. It was a habit of Johns not to tell you things and then assume that you knew all about them.
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