Textual Grammar on The Model Millionaire

Textual Grammar on The Model Millionaire

Textual Grammar :  The Model Millionaire

By PKG SIR 

A. Identify the clause (State the clause and its type):

1. Unless one is wealthy there is no use in being a charming fellow.

2. It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

3. These are the great truths of modern life which Hughie Erskine never realised.

4. He lived on two hundred a year that an old aunt allowed him.

5. The girl he loved was Laura Merton.

6. ...who had lost his temper and his digestion in India...

7. Come to me, my boy, when you have got ten thousand pounds of your own.

8. As he was on his way to Holland Park, he dropped in to see Alan Trevor.

9. ...Holland Park, where the Mertons lived...

10. When he took up the brush he was a real master.

11. The only people a painter should know are people who are bête and beautiful.

12. After he got to know Hughie better, he liked him quite as much for his bright buoyant spirits.

13. When Hughie came in he found Trevor putting the finishing touches to a picture.

14. ...while with the other he held out his battered hat for alms.

15. I suppose, to you painters, his face is his fortune.

16. The servant told Trevor that the frame maker wanted to speak to him.

17. He looked so forlorn and wretched that Hughie could not help pitying him.

18. He felt in his pockets to see what money he had.

19. What you call rags I call romance.

20. When they were married Alan Trevor was the best man.

B. Change the Mode of Narration:

1. 'Come to me, my boy, when you have got ten thousand pounds of your own, and we will see about it,' the Colonel used to say.

2. 'What an amazing model!' whispered Hughie.

3. 'How much does a model get for sitting?' asked Hughie.

4. 'A shilling an hour,' replied Trevor.

5. 'And how much do you get for your picture, Alan?' asked Hughie.

6. 'Well, I think the model should have a percentage,' cried Hughie, laughing.

7. 'Don't run away, Hughie,' he said, 'I will be back in a moment.'

8. 'Thank you, sir,' the beggar said.

9. 'Well, Alan, did you get the picture finished all right?' he said.

10. 'My dear Alan,' cried Hughie, 'I shall probably find him waiting for me when I go home.'

11. 'Alan,' said Hughie seriously, 'you painters are a heartless lot.'

12. 'You told that old beggar all my private affairs?' cried Hughie.

13. 'Have I the honour of addressing Monsieur Erskine?' said the old gentleman.

14. 'I beg, sir, that you will offer him my sincerest apologies,' stammered Hughie.

C. Change the Voice:

1. His father had bequeathed him his cavalry sword.

2. An old aunt allowed him two hundred a year.

3. Hughie hung the sword over his looking glass.

4. Laura adored him.

5. The Colonel would not hear of any engagement.

6. People eagerly sought after his pictures.

7. Over his shoulders was flung a coarse brown cloak.

8. Trevor was putting the finishing touches to a wonderful lifesize picture.

9. He slipped the sovereign into the beggar's hand.

10. You have made a conquest.

11. He buys all my pictures.

12. He gave me a commission a month ago to paint him.

13. The Baron has commissioned me to bring you this letter.

D.Identify Participle, Gerund, or Infinitive from the followings:

1. "There is no use in being a charming fellow."

2. "He had every accomplishment except that of making money."

3. "He dropped in to see a great friend of his."

4. "When Hughie came in he found Trevor putting the finishing touches to a picture."

5. "The beggar was standing on a raised platform."

6. "His thick boots were patched and cobbled."

7. "Hughie could not help pitying him."

8. "He walked home, feeling very unhappy."

9. "I can understand your kissing a pretty model."

10. "He extended a sealed envelope."

Transformation of Sentences:

1. Unless one is wealthy there is no use in being a charming fellow. (Turn into a Compound sentence)

2. The poor should be practical and prosaic. (Rewrite using the noun forms of 'practical' and 'prosaic')

3. He had every accomplishment except that of making money. (Turn into a Negative sentence)

4. They were the handsomest couple in London. (Change into Positive degree)

5. He looked so forlorn and wretched that Hughie could not help pitying him. (Rewrite using 'too...to')

6. Model millionaires are rarer still. (Change into Comparative degree)

7. Ultimately he became nothing. (Turn into an Interrogative sentence)

8. I wouldn't paint him in a frockcoat for anything. (Turn into an Affirmative sentence)