Papegøjebogen

Kongruens

Øvelse 3

1. That star moves round the sun.
2. Those children are always late.
3. She agrees with you.
4. The last train leaves at midnight.
5. Their dogs bark all night.
6. They look very old.
7. She spends all her money on books.
8. They pick oranges in the summer.
9. The girl swims in the river.
10. Bakers sell bread.
11. The beggar is hungry.
12. He usually believes her.
13. Some children like coffee.
14. You know the answer.
15. The bell rings at 8 o’clock.
16. I remember the song quite well.
17. He cooks his own meals.
18. This car breaks down quite often.
19. The ice melts in the sun.
20. Ducks lay eggs.

Øvelse 4

1. Susan is not happy. She is crying now.
2. Those dresses are made of silk.

Øvelse 8

1. The purpose of these exercises is to be obvious.
2. The boy, whose parents are teachers, wants to become an engineer.
3. Everybody likes a good story.
4. The butler and the maid have lived in the house for 10 years.
5. Either the butler or the maid has murdered the professor.
6. Which of the two books looks most interesting.
7. There are several mistakes in this essay.
8. The police has a difficult job keeping order.
9. Do you think my glasses, which I always leave lying about, have finally disappeared for good?
10. Lots of food is needed to feed the starving people.
11. Not only her mother but her sisters and brothers are missing.
12. A large number of houses are for sale.
13. Neither the boy nor the girl has written the essay.
14. Some are wise and some are otherwise.
15. People say he ought to be punished for the crime.
16. The meaning of the new laws seem difficult for the public to understand.
17. The terrorist´ victim appears to have survived his ordeal.
18. His family have all turned against him.
19. Public opinion about the Prime Minister’s abilities appear to have changed since the general election.
20. My money has been stolen.

Tillægsord eller biord

Øvelse 6

1. A good novel rarely ends with the words “and they lived happily ever after”.
2. Good novels have a tendency to focus on serious problems.
3. Maybe the protagonist have had a miserable and lonely childhood.
4. Maybe she has been badly brought up by a miserable and drunken mother, who had enough stress with her own problems.
5. Maybe the protagonist dies unexpectedly just before the last page of the book.
6. In any case good novels often end tragically.
7. We need a new kind of good novels, which are about important problems in our lives, but where the protagonists learn to do well in an independent and mature manner.
8. Then we get motivated to read enormously long novels.

Øvelse 7

A really handsome guy

She definitely thought that she had seen him before. His eyes were green and the beautifully formed nose gave him an unusual profile. His hair was smartly cut and his clothes unusually fitting.

So she took a quick decision: she asked him openly, if he wanted to marry her, and when he, in astonishment, said “Wha!”, she repeated her proposal plainly and boldly.

Totally overwhelmed by her initiative he didn’t know what to say, so he kissed her passionately, and they lived happily ever after.