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Thursday, March 24, 2011

ATTRIBUTIVE ADJECTIVAL PHRASES USED BY CHARLES DICKENS - IN CHAPTERS 1 AND 2 OF HIS NOVEL OLIVER TWIST

Here is a list of attributive adjectival phrases used in Chapters 1 and 2 of Charles Dickens' novel Oliver Twist.
Here is a small quiz based on these phrases
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1. accurate perception
2. experimental philosopher
3. experimental philosophy
4. festive composition
5. gradual process
6. material influence
7. medical gentleman
8. oratorical powers
9. parental
superintendence
10. parochial generation
11. periodical pilgrimages
12. porochial business
13. supernatural exertions

Fill in the blanks with appropriate words from the choice box. Hover your mouse over the blank to see the suggested answer,,,,,,,,,,,,
1.
'And notwithstanding a offered reward of ten pound, which was
afterwards increased to twenty pound. Notwithstanding the most
superlative, and, I may say, ____ns on the part of this
parish,' said Bumble, 'we have never been able to discover who is his
father, or what was his mother's settlement, name, or condition.'

Mrs. Mann raised her hands in astonishment.
2.
'Do you think this respectful or proper conduct, Mrs. Mann,' inquired
Mr. Bumble, grasping his cane, 'to keep the parish officers a waiting
at your garden-gate, when they come here upon ____ss with
the porochial orphans?

Are you aweer, Mrs. Mann, that you are, as I
may say, a porochial delegate, and a stipendiary?'

'I'm sure Mr. Bumble, that I was only a telling one or two of the dear
children as is so fond of you, that it was you a coming,' replied Mrs.
3.
And she had a very ____n of what was good for herself.
4.
Mr. Bumble had a great idea of his ____nd his
importance. He had displayed the one, and vindicated the other. He
relaxed.
5.
Poor Oliver! He little thought, as he lay sleeping in happy
unconsciousness of all around him, that the board had that very day
arrived at a decision which would exercise the most ____all his future fortunes. But they had. And this was it.
6.
We'll stop it all, in no time.' So, they established the rule, that
all poor people should have the alternative (for they would compel
nobody, not they), of being starved by a ____use,
or by a quick one out of it. With this view, they contracted with the
water-works to lay on an unlimited supply of water.
7. Unfortunately for, the ____phy of the
female to whose protecting care Oliver Twist was delivered over, a
similar result usually attended the operation of
her system.
8. Besides, the board
made ____ges to the farm, and always sent the beadle the
day before, to say they were going.

The children were neat and clean to behold, when they went.
9. Everybody knows the story of another ____who had a
great theory about a horse being able to live without eating, and who
demonstrated it so well, that he had got his own horse down to a straw
a day, and would unquestionably have rendered him a very spirited and
rampacious animal on nothing at all, if he had not died,
four-and-twenty hours before he was to have had his first comfortable
bait of air.

Oliver's warden .
10. Out of which the master, dressed in an apron for the
purpose, and assisted by one or two women, ladled the gruel at
mealtimes. Of this ____ach boy had one porringer, and
no more.
11. The workhouse authorities replied with humility, that there was not. Upon this, the parish authorities
magnanimously and humanely resolved, that Oliver should be 'farmed,'
or, in other words, that he should be dispatched to a branch-workhouse
some three miles off, where twenty or thirty other juvenile offenders
against the poor-laws, rolled about the floor all day, without the
inconvenience of too much food or too much clothing, under the ____ndence of an elderly female, who received the culprits at and
for the consideration of sevenpence-halfpenny per small head per week.
12.GOod-night!'

The ____d away to dinner.
13.SO, she appropriated the greater part of the weekly stipend to her own
use, and consigned the rising ____ even a shorter
allowance than was originally provided for them.

Oliver's warden .

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