FLE 133 CONTEXTUAL GRAMMAR EXERCISES ON PARALLELISM
First Task;
Our
beagle loves to hunt. When someone opens
the back door for her, she barrels down porch steps into the yard. Then she
runs back and forth across the lawn in ecstasy. Her nose cruises the wet grass for smells;
smells of cats, of rabbits, and of humans to detect them. She sniffs and spins
her tail in quick circles. First it spins clockwise, then it spins
counterclockwise. These two activities,
sniffing and spinning, always occur together. They seem to propel her along.
Second Task;
The
Government Printing Office in Washington D.C., is a source of useful
information. Unfortunately, only a few people know about it. It is the official publishing house for the
federal government, which publishes pamphlets and books on a vast number of
subjects. These range from the dangers
of X-rays, from home TV sets to the identification of mushrooms. About 27,000 publications are offered through
the Superintendent of Documents. Many of
them are inexpensive and some of them aren’t even charged!
Third Task;
The
man who reaped America’s first fortune was John Jacob Astor. He was a German
immigrant, who made his initial money through trading Indian furs. Although
Astor was lowborn, uneducated and never learned to speak English properly, he
carried on his business to the end in an accent. His accent was redolent of the
Hamburg gutters.
