Task 3.

Colour code the text

Christ, he thinks, by my age I ought to know. You don’t get on by being

original. You don’t get on by being bright. You don’t get on by being
strong. You get on by being a subtle crook; somehow he thinks that is
what Norris is, and he feels an irrational dislike taking root, and he tries
to dismiss it, because he prefers his dislikes rational, but after all, these
circumstances are extreme, the cardinal in the mud, the humiliating
tussle to get him back in the saddle, the talking, talking on the barge,
and worse, the talking, talking on his knees, as if Wolsey’s unraveling, in
a great unweaving of scarlet thread that might lead you back into a
scarlet labyrinth, with a dying monster at its heart.

red = nouns
blue = adjectives
bright green = verbs
yellow = prepositions
pink = phrasal verbs
violet = definite/indefinite articles
light grey = adverbs
dark red = pronouns
teal = conjunctions
light blue=cardinal numbers
dark yellow= determiners
dark green = ordinal numbers