Unit-7 (Q 22-26) practice
exercises: (Correct the sentences and rewrite them)
Exercise-1:
Ladvenu: [calling] The accused.
Let her be brought in. (22) Joan, chained of the ankles, is brought in
through the arched door behind the prisoner's stool
by a guard of English
soldiers. (23) them With is the Executioner and his assistants. (24) They
leads her to the prisoner's stool, and place themselves behind it after taking
off her chain. (25) She wore a page's black suit.
The Inquisitor: [kindly] Sit down,
Joan. [She sits on the prisoner's stool]. (26) You look too pale today.
Are you not well?
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Exercise-2:
The Inquisitor:
[interposing] This is not yet in order.
You forget, Master Promoter, that the proceedings have not been formally opened. The time for questions is after she has sworn
on the Gospels to tell us
the whole truth.
Joan:
(22)
You say
this me
to every
time. (23) I has said
again and
again that
I will tell you
all that
concerns this
trial. (24) But I
cannot told
you the
whole truth: (25) God does allows the whole truth to be told. (26) You
do not understand it whose I tell it. It is an old saying that he who tells too much truth is sure to be hanged. I am weary of this argument: we have been over it nine times already. I have sworn as much as I will swear; and I will swear no more.
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Exercise-3:
Gandhi’s luggage
is thrown onto the station
platform. A blast
of steam from the engine.
(22) A policeman and the conductor
are pull Gandhi
from the First Class car. (23) Gandhi is clinging to the safe rails by the door, a
briefcase clutched firmly in one hand. (24) The European cracks of Gandhi’s
hands with his fist, breaking Gandhi’s grip and the policeman and conductor push him across the platform. (25) It are ugly and demeaning.
(26) Disgustedly, Gandhi
rights himself on the platform, picking up his briefcase, his face a of mixture
rage, humiliation, impotence. The conductor hurls Gandhi’s book at his feet as
the train starts to move.
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