Time correlation

I. Comment on the verb forms in italics and their categorial meanings (Tense, Time Correlation, Aspect):

I.1. Susan opened her mouth to say something, but before she could speak Lady Camilla had walked from the room. 2. I had not been pulling for more than a minute or so, when George noticed something black floating on the water.... 3. I had a severe cold last week but I've got over it now. 4. Hi¹ was staying at Bertram's, and had reserved his room for four days. 5. This expedition was just starting when Hubert got to Lima. 6. It was a complete cut. Dinny has never spoken of it since, but I'm afraid she'// never forget. 7. Then she took up a book which had been lying beside her on the bench, and began to read it. 8. It was a glorious night. The moon had sunk and left the quiet earth alone with the stars. 9. Every­body is talking about Mrs. Cheveley. 10. He stepped off the track, dumped his cases on the ground, and stretched himself full length on the grass. 11. When will they be coming home? 12. I have been looking forward to meeting you ever since Arthur told us. 13. "You know, Bevy," he said. "I have been thinking of your London idea, and it appeals to me very much." 14. He had been looking two minutes at the fire, and I had been looking the same length of time at him, when, turn­ing suddenly, he caught my gaze.... 15. When two young people have been nearly three weeks together _on board a ship, they do not know each other half so well as they think they do! 16. Still, as I say, I've seen something of this kind of thing and it frightens me. 17. You wanted to see me, I hear. 18. I remember once at Bath, years ago, losing in the Pump Room an exceedingly handsome cameo bracelet that Sir John had given me. 19. I'm on my way there. I'm catching a plane this evening. 20. Aren't you coming in, Robert? 21. Bob looked round him, at the suitcases and zip bags. He was faced with a problem. He wouldn't be able to see Joan before flying Ali out. There wouldn't be time to get to the dam and back.

II. Give the categorial meaning of the verb forms in italics. Say which particular grammatical meaning they express. Motivate your answers:

1. And as I entered the room she turned and looked at me. 2. One man after another took off his hat as she passed. 3. He stood there, swaying unsteadily on his thin legs. 4. Elvira Blake looked up at the sky, noted that it was a fine morning and went into a telephone box. 5. When she opened the door of the room, he stood upon the threshold and looked about him in amazement. 6. He thought of the old stag while he wandered around. 7. The June grass, amongst which I stood, was taller than I was, and I wept. 8. And then he proceeded to find his place in the church service. When the music began, he stood up and looked across at his mother, smiling. 9. Lanny stretched himself and waited. Lanny picked up his cases and walked along the sandy track. 10. A pang _of fear gripped fanny's heart but he kept on. 11. He proposed to me last night in the music-room. 12. Tommy has proposed to me again. 13. I have come back sane, I have been sane for three months now. 14. Lady Chiltern, I have sometimes thought that... perhaps you are a little hard in some of your views on life. 16. I don't think I’ve spoken to anybody else since you've been away, except one small boy and the cook. 16. Ever since I saw her there... I have been able to think of nothing else. 17. Nothing has happened and nothing is going to happen. 13- He has been asleep most of the day and seems less exhausted. 19. I have always felt rather guilty when I came to see your aunt, for I take no interest at all in the East End. 20. Julia climbed the trees with ease, she had climbed trees all her life. 21. Unfortunately, however, I made no inquiries of any kind till after I had been actually married four or five months. 22. We had insisted at all the shops we had been to that the things should be sent with us then and there. 23.'Here was a woman she had never seen till the day before, though she had seen plenty of newspaper photographs of her. Yesterday, for the first time she had seen her in the flesh. 24. And when June's mother died, six years ago, Jo had married that woman, and they had two children now.... 25. The dog-cart is waiting, sir. 26. Oh, Gertrude, do you know who is coming to see you? 27. We are starting for India at the end of the month. 28. Rob­ert and I are dining at home by ourselves to-night. 29. Cannon Pennyfather passed out through the door while his friend, looking after him, was just saying: "But my dear chap, to-day is the 19-th, isn't it?" 30. He was always either running to keep up with the rest of us or sitting alone in the mud. 31. But then, I had no idea of what he was hearing. No two listeners hear the same piece of music. 32. She was always saying things which made him uncomfortable. 33. You will remember what I said to you, won't you? 34. This old man will be leaving soon, but you will stay on. 35. As I wandered through Kennington, all that had happened to me there seemed like a dream, and what had happened to me in the States was the reality.

III. Mark the cases of oppositional neutralization ‘Continuous:: Non-Continuous’ and comment on each of them:

1. "Have you been here long?" she asked. "A couple of hours." 2. For ever since he had been among them, he had been trying to appear as much of a man of the world as they were. 3. They had not gone far before they could smell the terrifying smell. 4. Lady Chiltern goes to the top of the staircase and looks down at them as they descend. Б. My dear Racrlei, you have had him to yourself for over twenty years. Why not let me have him for a little now? 6. For the fraction of an instant only, while all these things in him now spoke, he hesitated.... 7. There was rain in my shoes, and mother had disappeared. 8. As they neared the gate, a man who stood with his hat in his hand made a step forward. 9. Then came the

sudden and dramatic news that Japan had attacked Pearl Harbor. 10. The man had been there for years, and is well-known to the manager of the hotel. 11. While she tossed and muttered, he sat by and waited. 12. She fastened at her throat a small turquoise brooch that had been her mother's.

IV. Mark the cases of oppositional neutralization ‘Perfect:: Non-Perfect’:

1. No sooner was he outside than she rang the bell again. 2. She said your son Bevis married her six years ago in London. 3. I've heard of him ever since I was born, and he was known I long before that. 4. It arrived with the second bus, about j three minutes after I arrived. 5. By the time, the story was finished he looked quite serious. 6. And after the store was I closed that evening, they sat in the back room and talked to­gether until midnight. 7....It was already dark-before I got into Lymstock. 8. Lord Warbeck was lying on a sofa drawn up close to the fire. He had been dozing, but started into life at the sound of the opening door. A flush.came to his pale cheeks and he sat up as he realized who the newcomer was. 10. Good-bye. I 'm very glad I met you. 11. The old woman I fell into his arms and clung to him. 12. A bell rang and he made a leap away before Cedric had time to speak. 13. The Earl I leaned back in his chair and stared. 14. "I was just talking to my sister," said Nick. "We were discussing our childhood."

V. Say which of the word-combinations with shall/will can be analytical forms and which should be interpreted as free modal word-combinations:

1. What this man has been, he is now, and will be always. 2. Robert and I are dining at home by ourselves to-night, and I don't think I shall go anywhere afterwards. Robert, of course, will have to be in the House. 3. "This is very strange," he said. "He will be very angry. He won't understand it." — "I think he will understand it after he thinks it over," she said. 4. I must go. They'll be waiting. 5. He will no doubt be expecting his son to come and see him during the morning. 6. You don't think it will rain, Lord Darlington, do you? 7. No one would take me for love, and I will not be regarded in the light of a mere money-speculation. 8. Arthur, if that woman comes here, I shall insult her. 9. You will never be in the best society unless you can stand on your heads. 10...if she comes here once she will have a chance of a happier, a surer life than she has had. She will make no further effort to know you. 11. Then I will say nothing, and you shall judge for yourself. 12. Oh, let's get something straight, Dr. Foster. If you do not co-operate, you will go to jail directly. You will not see a lawyer, you will not be charged, you will not have a trial. You will simply stay in jail. 13. I said I wasn't going to drink much to-night, and I'm not. I think a glass of Rhine wine and seltzer will be about my speed. 14. I shall be coming down before tea-time. 15. Curiosity is an occupational danger with scientists. I've watched it work. One of them will be moving quietly along on a problem, then curiosity leads him up a strange creek. 16. It's a rath­er complicated story but when you hear it, you'll want to help. 17. I will attire my Jane in satin and lace and she shall have roses in her hair; and I will cover the head I love best with a priceless veil. 18. "I hope everything will be all right," said Mrs. Potterly, feeling helplessly certain that everything would not be.... 19. Do you think, Mrs. Allonby, I shall ever, meet the Ideal Man? 20. I am very sorry you are leaving Eng­land so soon. Pray call on us when you come back. My wife and I will be charmed to see you! 21. "You certainly shall not go till you have told me all!" I said.