Complete each of the sentences below using elliptical or substitution
forms. Some have more than one possible form:
1) Ifyou can't do it, | very much doubt whether |
2) Hold you I'd given it back and 1
3) They arranged to come and put in a new water-heater, but they
yet
4), Peter asked the gifs if they would like to go for a sail and they said
Yes, they
5) Ed has the ambition to do some script-writing, but he really doesn't
know
6) You look rather tired. ~ Yes, and | feel
7) He told me to tum down the next side-street and |
8) And it was a one-way street? — Yes, I'm afraid ......
9) Does it matter what colour it is? — No, | suppose
— No, I don't suppose
10) Were you at the farewell dinner yesterday? —Who........!
In the following conversation, Neil is telling his friend Dennis about the
bad relations existing between him and his wife Pamela, After reading it,
answer the questions on the numbered pronouns:
NEIL; .. . You see, my trouble — Pam's trouble ~ is ¢his!"!. I think we !!
both expect things from each other'*!. Things that the other one "lis,
not prepared to give — to the other one! Do you get me?
DENNIS: Uh-huh.
NEIL: | suppose it's! nature really, isn't #2 !!
DENNIS: Ah,
NEIL: You '*! have your opposites ~ like ¢his '7! (he holds up hi
hands). This "is me ®!— that's "9! her!"!, And they "attract -like a
‘magnet. Only with people, as opposed to magnets, the trouble is with
people— they |'5! get demagnetised after a bit. I honestly think Pam
and me '"4" have reached the end of the road.
Alan Ayckbour, Just Between Ourselves.
1) Explain the reference of each of the numbered pronouns.
2), Comment on the use of the objective pronouns me, ® and her. 11
Comment also on the use of me. ("41
3) Which pronouns have anaphoric, cataphoric or exophoric reference?