3. Conan Doyle often uses rather formal, even elaborate, language. Find these sentences and phrases in the story, and then try to rephrase them in as simple a way as possible. For example:
1. I would ask you to be on hand about three o’clock, as I conceive it possible that I may want you. (112)
Please be here about three o’clock, as I may want you.
2. … You must admit that our unfortunate client has few outward graces, whatever his inner virtues may be. (106)
3. I hardly expected that so humble an individual as myself, especially after my heavy financial loss, could obtain the complete attention of so famous a man as Mr. Sherlock Holmes. (108)
4. … the case, which seemed to me to be so absurdly simple as to hardly worth my notice, is rapidly assuming a very different aspect. (110-111)
5. With your natural advantages, Watson, every lady is your helper and accomplice. (111)
6. It would make the worst possible impression on both the police and upon myself, Mr. Amberley, if when so obvious a clue arose you should refuse to follow it up. (113)
7. It was soon apparent to me that my companion’s reputation as a miser was not undeserved. (114)
8. Such a one came upon the scene in the person of this chess-playing doctor. (117)
9. There being no fear of interruption I proceeded to burgle the house. (118)
4. Insert the necessary preposition:
1. His alert practical nature was subject … such reactions.
2. And what is left … our hands … the end?
3. He made his little pile, retired … business … the age … sixty-one, bought a house … Lewisham, and settled … to rest … a life … ceaseless grind.
4. The couple went … together last week-destination untraced.
5. I am preoccupied … this case of the two Coptic Patriarchs.
6. I only had a glimpse … him this morning, and he certainly gave me the impression … a strange creature, but when I saw him … full light his appearance was even more abnormal.
7. … the last moment she had complained … a headache and had refused to go.
8. He tore … one … hi wife’s photographs … my presence – tore it … furiously … a tempest … passion.
9. Let us get … … what is practical.
10. Our client seemed to be horrified … the suggestion.
11. There was a telephone, however, … the little ‘Railway Arms”, and by it I got … touch … Holmes, who shared … our amazement … the result … our journey.
12. Mr. Amberley had grumbled … the expense … the journey, had insisted … traveling third-class, was now clamorous … his objections to the hotel bill.
13. Holmes sprang … Mr. Amberley’s throat like a tiger, and twisted his face … the ground.
14. I understand that I have your word, Mr. Holmes, that you step right … … the case now and that you turn all your results … … us.
15. No use writing … paper. That would be seen. If you wrote … the wall some eye might rest … it. Now, look here! Just … the skirting is scribbled … a purple indelible pencil.
Reading Comprehension:
1. Say whether the statements are true or false.
1. Mr. Holmes was very interested in Mr. Amberley’s case from the very beginning.
2. Mr. Watson was able to get everything of importance when he was at Mr. Amberley’s house.
3. Mr. Watson was right to notice that he had been followed by a stranger.
4. Mr. Holmes sent his friend and Mr. Amberley to Little Purlington as he really believed that they would be able to get some necessary information from the vicar.
5. When Watson and Mr. Amberley returned from Little Purlington Mr. Holmes was waiting for then in his cabinet.
6. Mr. Amberley practically confessed in committing the double murder by trying to commit a suicide.
7. Mr. Barker arrested Holmes while the latter one was trying to get into Mr. Amberley’s house.
8. Mr. Amberley started to paint his house in order to cover the smell of gas which he wanted to conceal.
9. The police found the bodies of Mr. Amberley’s wife and Ernest in the cellar of the house.
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