PLEASE study the following phrases and the manner in which we have filled-in the sentences with the phrases.
SOURCE OF THE SENTENCES : Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and his Sherlock Holmes. His work: ' THE SIGN OF THE FOUR'.
| PHRASES LIST |
|---|
| 1<> am delighted |
| 2<> am ashamed |
| 3<> am compelled |
| 4<> am surprised |
| 5<> are disguised |
| 6<> are suspicious |
| 7<> shall be suspected |
| 8<> should be treated |
| 9<> was informed |
| 10<> was movement |
| 11<> was annoyed |
| 12<> was caused |
| 13<> was cleaned |
| 14<> was concerned |
| 15<> was conscious |
| 16<> was consulted |
| 17<> was content |
| 18<> was despondent |
| 19<> was hanged |
| 20<> was irritated |
| 21<> was muffled |
| 22<> were anxious |
| 23<> were informed |
| 24<> will be instructive |
| 25<> will be called |
| 26<> would be accused |
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| 1. "I very well remember the sensation which____ by the disappearance of Captain Morstan.<. |
| 2. Miss Morstan____n a dark cloak, and her sensitive face was composed, but pale.<. |
| 3. They____s folk in the East, however: so what does this rajah do but take a second even more trusty servant and set him to play the spy upon the first? This second man was ordered never to let Achmet out of his sight, and he followed him like his shadow.<. |
| 4. "I____o be a valetudinarian.<. |
| 5. "It____efore being sent to me.<. |
| 6. And now he is dead, and the police will be called in, and I____of having had a hand in it.<. |
| 7. And now he is dead, and the police____ and I shall be suspected of having had a hand in it.<. |
| 8. Apply them, and it____ive to compare results.<. |
| 9. At the sound of his strident, angry cries there____nt in the huddled bundle upon the deck.<. |
| 10. Detection is, or ought to be, an exact science, and____eated in the same cold and unemotional manner.<. |
| 11. I am loath to go, for it is quite on the cards that some message may come during the day, though Wiggins____dent about it last night.<. |
| 12. I confess that I____ and disappointed.<. |
| 13. I confess, too, that I____ted by the egotism which seemed to demand that every line of my pamphlet should be devoted to his own special doings.<. |
| 14. I____o hear that they are unwarranted.<. |
| 15. On reaching London I drove to the Langham, and____ that Captain Morstan was staying there, but that he had gone out the night before and had not yet returned.<. |
| 16. The pay was fair, I had comfortable quarters, and altogether I____to spend the remainder of my life in indigo-planting.<. |
| 17. They____to hear what happened.<. |
| 18. He had suffered for years from an enlarged spleen, but he now became rapidly worse, and towards the end of April we____that he was beyond all hope, and that he wished to make a last communication to us.<. |
| 19. but I could not but recognize that there was every chance that I____of his murder.<. |
| 20. yet I____o say that selfishness took me by the soul, and that my heart turned as heavy as lead within me.<. |
| 21." I____at this criticism of a work which had been specially designed to please him.<. |
| 22." It was between eight and nine o'clock now, and I____ of a strong reaction after the successive excitements of the night.<. |
| 23."I____ed last week by Francois Le Villard, who, as you probably know, has come rather to the front lately in the French detective service.<. |
| 24."They____ed hands, except the letter," he said, presently, "but there can be no question as to the authorship.<. |
| 25.I assure you that the most winning woman I ever knew____for poisoning three little children for their insurance-money, and the most repellant man of my acquaintance is a philanthropist who has spent nearly a quarter of a million upon the London poor.<. |
| 26.The case____ with a will, and possessed some features of interest.<. |
OBSERVATIONS AND DEDUCTIONS
*Type 1 : Existence verb (Verb of incomplete predication?) + an adjective.
*Type 2 : Existence verb + a past participle.
A past participle = past tense form of the verb, used as adjective.
Some interpretors treat these phrases as only verbs.
*Both the types of phrases are 'complementary' in nature i.e. the adjectives follow their objects. These are not attributive adjectives.
*Using the complementary adjectives , as attributive adjectives particularly with pronouns, may result in awkward constructions.
E.g.
John is defiant. (Complementary. In line with the current English).
Deficient John is not co-operating. (Deficient is Attributive. In line with the current English).
John is deficient. "Deficient he, is not co-operating." (Awkward construction).
