Shurygina Sasha 41-AK

V. Comment on the oppositional reduction of the categorial nounal forms:

a) the category of number
1. Yet, every dim little star revolving around her, from her maid to the manager of the Italian Opera,
knows her weaknesses, prejudices, follies, haughtinesses, and caprices... (Dickens)
2. There's many a poor respectable mother who doesn't get half the fussing and attention which is
lavished on some of these girls! (James)
3. But Hamilton drinks too much and all this crowd of young people drink too much (Fitzgerald).
4. He won't be retiring for another eighteen months (Christie).
5. In her grace, at once exquisite and hardy, she was that perfect type of American girl that makes one
wonder if the male is not being sacrificed to it, much as, in the last century, the lower strata in England
were sacrificed to produce the governing class (Fitzgerald).
6. Michael saw Mrs. Dandy, not quite over her illness, rise to go and become caught in polite group after
group (Fitzgerald).
7. While it grew dark they drank and just before it was dark and there was no longer enough light to
shoot, a hyena crossed the open on his way around the hill. "That bastard crosses there every night,"
the man said. "Every night for two weeks." "He's the one makes the noise at night. I don't mind it. They
are a filthy animal though." (Hemingway)
8.He opened a second window and got into bed to shut his eyes on that night, but as soon as they were
shut - as soon as he had dropped off to sleep - the girl entered his mind, moving with perfect freedom
through its shut doors and filling chamber after chamber with her light, her perfume, and the music of
her voice (Cheever).
9. "Man has a right to expect living passion and beauty in a woman." (Anderson)
What does a man risk his life day after day for? (O. Henry)

b) the category of case

1. The car speed was so slow that it seemed to be crawling (Cheever).
2. Music's voice went to his heart (O.Henry).
3. The hearth was swept, the roses on the piano were reflected in the pol- ; ish of the broad top, and
there was an album of Schubert waltzes on the rack (Cheever).
4. He remembered reading - in a John D. MacDonald novel, he thought — that every modern motel
room in America seems filled with mirrors (King).
5. And I expect the whole place is bugged, and everybody knows every body else's most secret
conversations (Christie).

c) the category of gender

1. The old man was soon asleep and dreamed of the ocean and his golden beaches (Hemingway).
Person- Masculine
2. The moon was rising, blood-red. The boy was looking at her thinking that he had never seen so red a
moon (Galsworthy).Person- feminine
3. She shuddered. The child, his own child, was only an "it" to him (Lawrence). .
4. When Alice was speaking to the Mouse, she noticed that he was trembling all over with fright
(Carroll).
5. I herded sheep for five days on the Rancho Chiquito; and then the wool entered my soul. That getting
next to Nature certainly got next to me. I was lonesomer than Crusoe's goat (O.Henry).
6. In November a cold, unseen stranger, whom the doctors called Pneu monia, stalked about the colony,
touching one here and there with his icy fingers (O.Henry)

d) the category of article determination

1. She never told him they (letters) were from a husband (James).
2. And if you do well on "Emergency" there are the first-class thrill shows, like "Hazard" and
"Underwater Perils", with their nation wide coverage and enormous prizes. And then comes the really
big time (Sheckley).
3. He closed his eyes again and remembered, with mild astonishment, a time when he had been in the
trouble (Sheckley).
4. The breakers leaped at him, staggering him, while the boys yelled with ecstasy; the returning water
curled threateningly around his feet as it hurried back to sea (Fitzgerald).
5. It was a white world on which dark trees and tree masses stood under a sky keen with frost
(Lawrence).
6. Meanwhile he heard the ringing crow of a cockerel in the distance, he saw the pale shell of the moon
effaced on a blue sky (Lawrence).
7. Gowing came a little later and brought, without asking permission, a fat and, I think, very vulgar-
looking man named Padge, who appeared to be all moustache (Grossmith).
8. The next day she loved and rejoiced on the day he crossed the floor, he was sun, moon and stars in
one (Lawrence).
9. Old Jolyon was too much of a Forsyte to praise anything freely (Galsworthy).
10. "Has he any relatives in England?" "Two aunts. A Mrs. Everard, who lives at Hampstead, and a Miss
Daniels, who lives near Ascot." (Christie)
11. Intending to call Dr. Wilbur's home number, Sybil inserted a dime in the slot to ask for long distance
but heard only a metallic nothingness. The telephone was dead (Schreiber).
12. Kate did not like having to learn lessons from this little waif of a Teresa (Lawrence).
13. Tonight when he returned to his apartment at the stable he would begin to paint this breathtaking
picture of sky and sand and sea (Stone).
14. Where she stopped the sign read: "Mme. Sofronie. Hair Goods of All Kinds." One flight up Delia ran,
and collected herself, panting. Ma dame, large, too white, chilly, hardly looked the "Sofronie" (O.Henry).