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I. Consider the underlined structures below and identify the correct answer for each: (10 points)

1. She appeared, indeed, to have felt an incongruous impulse to draw attention to her own striking
observance of them.
a) PRO-TO infinitive b) Nominative + Infinitive c) Accusative + Infinitive

2. He saw to it that everybody guilty was punished.

a) Prepositional Object Extraposition b) Direct Object Extraposition c) Predicative Extraposition

3. He greeted Miss Fancourt, who hadn’t been in view the moment he quitted the room.
a) Free Relative Clause b) Restrictive Relative Clause c) Non-Restrictive Relative Clause

4. He told a joke to whomever had enough patience for it.

a) Prepositional Object b) Subject c) Indirect Object

5. However nice he may be, I still don’t like him.

a) Restrictive Relative Clause b) Free Relative Clause c) Non-Restrictive Relative Clause

6. He greeted Miss Fancourt, who hadn’t been in view the moment he quitted the room.
a) Adjunct of Manner b) Attribute c) Adjunct of Time

7. He realized she didn’t know the story and thought it wiser not to tell it to her.
a) Subject Extraposition b) Object Extraposition c) Direct Object Clause

8. They had undoubtedly believed that he was exactly what everybody else thought he was.
a) Predicative b) Indirect Object Clause c) Direct Object Clause

9. The person waiting on the hall, the friend of whom had died, was in tears.
a) Pied Piping b) Preposition Stranding c) Recursive Construction

10. He is believed to be so rich that everybody tries to borrow a dollar from him.
a) Prepositional Object b) Adjunct of Result c) Relative that clause

II. Translate into English: (10 points)

Nineta se îmbrăcase, dar nu pleca, stătea în fotoliu și continua astfel despre copii și povestirea ei nu mai înainta, să aflu și eu ce
făcuse atâția ani, poate chiar zece… Si, fără un motiv aparent, izbucni deodată într-un plâns interminabil, asemenea unei
Fantine ai cărei copii se aflau sub puterea unui Thenardier mizerabil, numai că nu era nici bolnavă ca aceea, nu-și vânduse nici
dinții și părul ca să le trimită bani, iar tatăl copiilor era departe de a fi un Thenardier… Cu atât se simțea mai vinovată deci și
fără scăpare, cu cât, în afară de faptul că îi născuse, nu făcuse nimic pentru ei. Acest adevăr brutal o împiedica să deschidă un
proces și să câștige pentru ea măcar unul. N-ar fi putut să-i audă pe copii în instanță optând pentru tatăl lor. „I-am întrebat eu,
zise Nineta înseninându-se ca în fața unei fatalități, și nu mi-au spus chiar nu, a fost mai rău, au tăcut, nu mi-au răspuns nimic,
semn că pentru ei hotăra tatăl, deși când le-am pus întrebarea el nu era de față. Numai cel mic, care îmi e cel mai drag, când
am rămas numai eu cu el, m-a întrebat inocent, semn că fostul meu bărbat nu mă ponegrise în fața lor: ‚mamă, de ce nu vii tu
acasă?’ De ce nu viu? Nu știa nimic, săracul, credea că eu pot veni și nu vreau…”

BONUS: Negate the following sentences: (5 points)

1. He struck me as stupid. 2. I could do with a sip of wine. 3. They have already shown him too much. 5. 4. He will
arrive before seven. 5. I must have met you before.
Answers:

II.

Nineta had dressed up, but she was not leaving, she sat in the armchair and went on like that about kids and her
story was not moving forward, so I could find out what she had been doing all these years, maybe even ten…. And,
without any apparent reason, she suddenly broke down into endless crying, similar to a Fantine whose children
were under the power of a miserable Thenardier, only that she was not as sick as her, she hadn’t sold her teeth
and hair to send them money, and the children’s father was not far from being a Thenardier… The guiltier and
more trapped she felt, the more, besides birthing them, she had not done anything for them. This brutal truth was
stopping her from opening up a trial and from winning at least one for herself. She couldn’t have heard the kids
choosing their father in court. “I asked him, said Nineta lighting up before a fatality, and they did not exactly say
no, it was worse, they went quiet, they didn’t answer me, meaning that for them the father was deciding, even
though when I asked them, he was not present. Only the youngest, who is my dearest, when it was only me and
him, asked me innocently, meaning that my former husband had not badmouthed me in front of them: “mother,
why won’t you come home?” Why won’t I come? He knew nothing, the poor boy, he thought I can come back and
don’t want to…”

III.

1.He didn’t strike me as very smart.

2.It couldn’t hurt to have a sip of wine.

3.They haven’t spared him any of the details.

4.He shouldn’t arrive later than seven.

5.There is no way we haven’t met before.