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Resenja 1
Resenja 1
John had always thought that an autobiography really amounted to (state verb) a whole
explanation of yourself.
The chairman had proved capable of extraordinary resilience. The economic downturn had
made (ima objekat, nije) him cautious. It was as if the world was going crazy; his colleagues found the
change quite frightening and began to get into a panic. The quarrels of the past seemed forgotten, and
everyone’s fear was turning into an unreasonable stupor. But Jones’s fascination was so strong that it
turned into an obsession. Wood made up 65% of the country’s exports, which constituted (was a way
out) a way out of most difficulties. Indeed, the impression the country gave was a rural one (nominal
predicate).
It’d make a good colony one day, he thought, exiting the building.The lights had made him
sleepy, and the air outside was turning into a light breeze. The four young men comprising the TV crew
were still at the door. There was no avoiding an interview. Promises given by people in power remained
just promises, after all.
Break the following sentences into the subject and the predicate, and analyse the predicate:
All the work having been done, the board members departed / participle
, I disapprove of the market place being closed for the weekend / gerund
, She could not bear not seeing him for longer than a week/ gerund
Identify the non-finite form and give the full paradigm regardless of the context: