INDEPENDENT ELEMENTS Exercise 1. Point out all the independent elements and state what kind they are.
1. Jesus, papa, haven't you any pride or shame? 2. You don't get the point, huh? 3. Oddly enough, even in that moment of fear and eager, his words excited her companion. 4. But, good God, I'm not going to let you down. 5. Regretfully, mounting costs have forced the museum to close. 6. On the surface, he appeared unchanged. 7. Perhaps both were trying to put down in paint Ideas which were more suitable to literature. 8. To use the hackneyed phrase, here he found himself. 9. The situation implied, therefore, or perhaps I should say however, a two-way Jealously. 10. Hell, everyone keeps a light on in the front hall until they go to bed. 11. To make it worse, Mother couldn't come with me and sent Nora instead. 12. Interestingly, it is not clear which solution the prime minister favours. 13. Much to our annoyance, they decided not to come after all. 14. I have never realized, of course, that life at Manderlay would be so orderly and planned. 15. Well, if I behaved like that people'd say I'd been drinking. 16. Why, compared with some of them Jimmy Langton is a great gentleman. 17. Oh, don't talk about love, not to me. 18. In point of fact, I met Strickland before I had been a fortnight in Paris. 19. More importantly, can he be trusted? 20. In brief, he was almost happy. 21. I don't want to go. Besides, I am tired. 22. Regrettably, ethnic minorities are often scapegoated for the lack of jobs. 23. "Was he disagreeable?" - "No, on the contrary, he was scrupulously polite." 24. Strangely enough, I don't feel at all nervous. 25. Admittedly, it is rather expensive, but you don't need to use much. 26. After all, I had not seen him for fifteen years. 27. Indeed, you don't understand me and you've never tried very hard. 28. No, frankly, I can't see what you're driving at. 29. The only thing I regretted,
paradoxically, was that I had not been sober. 30. Personally, darling, to speak quite candidly, I don't much care about the name of Ernest.