Architecture English Exercise Unit 04

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Architecture English Exercise Unit 04

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1. His duty is to design the architecture complex together with his partners. The underlined phrase is used as _____. A. prepositional phrase used as a complement B. infinitive phrase used as a complement C. prepositional phrase used as a modifier D. infinitive phrase used as a modifier 2. “The wind may be strong enough to overturn a building ,or even to lift a very light building off its foundation”. The underline phrase is used as_______________. A. a subjective complement B. an object C. an adverb to modify the adjective D. a modifier of purpose

EXERCISES FOR UNIT 3 October 5, 2012 1 EXERCISES FOR UNIT 4 - PARTICIPLES AND PARTICIPIAL PHRASES PARTICIPLES BEFORE NOUNS Exercise 1: Use the correct participial form of verb in parentheses in the blank space. 1.(follow) The students will study the ____following_________ words. 2. (break) The carpenter will repair the _____________ chair. 3. (import) That company sells only _____________ merchandise. 4. (run) The _____________ water flowed over the edge of the sink. 5. (dance) Miss Peters attended a _____________ school last year. 6. (assume) Many famous authors write books under _____________ names. 7. (exist) The _____________ buildings will be torn down next year. 8. (steal) The police recovered the _____________ jewelry yesterday. 9. (swing) The carpenter installed _____________ doors in those rooms. 10. (accuse) The judge and jury found the _____________ man guilty. 11. ( lead) The _____________ actor in that play is also a director. 12. (tire) That was certainly _____________ work. 13. (tire) The _____________ workers sat down to rest for a minute. 14. (freeze) That big grocery store sells a lot of _____________ food. 15. (freeze) The temperature went below the _____________ point last night. THE PAST PARTICIPLE AFTER OBJECTS Exercise 2: Put the italicized object after verb GET or HAVE, and use the past participle (MOVED,TAKEN ) in place of the infinitive (TO MOVE or MOVE,TO TAKE or TAKE, ). _ Mr. Wilson had the man take the telephone out of that office.  Mr. Wilson had the telephone taken out of that office. _ I got the man to deliver all of the packages yesterday.  I got all of the packages delivered yesterday. EXERCISES FOR UNIT 3 October 5, 2012 2 1. We had the janitor repair that old chair several days ago.  2. George finally got a mechanic to fix the motor of his car.  3. I’ll have a carpenter cover the holes in that wall tomorrow.  4. Mrs. Kelly got the butcher to cut the meat into small pieces.  5. We usually have that man wash our car once a week.  6. I’m going to get him to check those reports very carefully.  7. You’d have better someone paint your house very soon.  8. Why don’t you get the electrician to put the light on the wall?  9. We really ought to have someone take that old rubbish away.  10. John said he’d get someone to mail the letters tomorrow. PARTICIPLES WITH ALLIES PREPOSITIONS Exercise 3: Select the correct prepositions for the blank spaces in the following sentences. 1. If he is ashamed _________ his choice he may not even tell you the right brand. 2. His latest period was devoted _______sculpture on a monumental scale, with heroic themes taken from the Bible and mythology. EXERCISES FOR UNIT 3 October 5, 2012 3 3. The demand for new motor cars was directly related ________ the demand for new highways, parking facilities, and greater freedom of traffic flow. The demand for new homes was likewise related_________ the need for expanded water supply, sewerage, power, and gas. 4. The use of this material is receiving wide attention by civil engineers engaged ________ highway, bridge, and airport maintenance. 5. Both Austria and Czechoslovakia have long been accustomed __________ a vigorous, unselfconscious, untraditional architecture. 6. They travelled throughout the country to get acquainted________ the American methods of production. 7. The clerk said he was tired __________ hearing complaints day after day. 8. Work on this dam was interrupted_______ 1942 on account of the war but was resumed in 1946. 9. They are concerned __________ space, time, and change, with man's needs, with natural forces, and with the way things relate to each other. 10. The government became increasingly concerned _________ rising unemployment and the continuing imbalance between the incomes of the various ethnic communities. 11. Business leaders were not satisfied ___________ the result and planned to pressure the lawmakers again. 12. Our conference was interrupted _____________ telephone calls several times. USING PARTICIPIAL PHRASES Exercise 4: Shorten the adjective clause to a participial phrase. 1. The book which was taken from that desk belonged to me. 2. The fellow who is walking with Edward is his brother. 3. That’s book which is known by almost all children. 4. The answer that is usually given to this question is in adequate. 5. The message which was delivered by them solved the mystery. 6. Have you seen the house that is being built next to ours? 7. A man who was recommended by the agency will come tomorrow. 8. They bought the house which was formerly owned by Mr. Brown. EXERCISES FOR UNIT 3 October 5, 2012 4 9. The teacher who is substituting for Mr. Moore is from Ohio. 10. The firm repaired the boats which were damaged during the storm. 11. Is this the book that was recommended to you by Mr. Harris? 12. Did the man that was appointed by the committee accept to the job? Exercise 5: Identify the kinds and the functions of underlined phrases in the following sentences. 1. Having narrowed our choice to several alternative tracts of land, we will then analyze them in detail. (p. 93) 2. Knowing the owner and his family and the things they like, I have found for them here a living environment that brings them into the best relationship with the landscape that surrounds them. (p.99) 3. Having thus roughed in the site use areas, we may at last block in the architectural elements of the project. (p. 108) 4. A terraced restaurant stepping down the naturally terraced banks of a river, floating structures on water, light, airy structures fixed against the sky, massive structures rooted in rock-each draws from its site a native power and returns to the site this power magnified. 5. The light blues and blue-greens of water, recalling its unstable surface, are used but rarely on base planes or floors, and then only in those areas where walking is to be discouraged. Source: John Ormsbee Simonds. 1983. Landscape Architecture. New York. McGraw-Hill, Inc Exercise 6: Further reading SPECIAL BUILDINGS Special buildings include many that are nearly as complete as the fully enclosed buildings that are the province of the architect: greenhouses, conservatories, orangeries, tool sheds, dovecotes, icehouses, root houses, bathhouses, playhouses, and many more. These are usually auxiliary in relation to the main house or building but relate to them in character and detail. Shelter structures, engineering structures, and special buildings are important in garden and landscape because they introduce precise geometric forms intermediate in scale between main buildings and landscape. If scattered or designed indiscriminately, they can destroy a pleasant landscape; carefully designed, they can be so grouped or arranged as to create rhythmic connections and patterns within the overall architectural-landscape design concept. THE END . EXERCISES FOR UNIT 3 October 5, 2012 1 EXERCISES FOR UNIT 4 - PARTICIPLES AND PARTICIPIAL PHRASES PARTICIPLES BEFORE NOUNS Exercise. complaints day after day. 8. Work on this dam was interrupted_______ 1 942 on account of the war but was resumed in 1 946 . 9. They are concerned __________ space, time, and change, with man's. tomorrow. 8. They bought the house which was formerly owned by Mr. Brown. EXERCISES FOR UNIT 3 October 5, 2012 4 9. The teacher who is substituting for Mr. Moore is from Ohio. 10. The firm

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