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.