Answer the following grammar questions

Read the following key words. Make sentences with the words given below.

Find the equivalents.

From the history of New York

The first European explorer who saw Manhattan Island was Giovanni da Verrazano, an Italian merchant who was in the service of the French king, Francis I. The date was April, 1524. Today a bridge which carries his name, the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge, is one of the city’s most impressive sights. It is the longest suspension bridge in the world.

Other Europeans followed Verrazano, most notable Henry Hudson, an Englishman employed by the Dutch East India Company. The mighty Hudson River is named after the navigator who set foot on these shores in 1609.

Even in the days when America is known as the New World, it was a country with a reputation for its spirit of enterprise and the ability of its people to make a good deal. In 626 the Dutch Trade Company bought Manhattan Island from the local Indians for twenty four dollars. It was probably the most spectacular business deal of all times (Today, $24 would not buy one square foot of office space in New York).

Here the Dutch founded their colony and gave it the name New Amsterdam. Forty years later the English fleet under the Duke of York entered the harbour, captured the city without firing a shot and renamed it New York.

During the War for Independence it was the scene of heavy fighting. The English held it until the end of the war in 1783 when it became the first capital of republic – the United States of America. On April 30, 1789 George Washington, the first president of the US, stood on a balcony there and swore a solemn oath to “preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.”

The city grew very quickly. Today’s New York is the greatest contrast possible to the island settled by Dutch in 1624. In 1811 a “city plan” under which straight lines cut through the woods and fields of Manhattan, flattering its hills, burying under the surface its countless little rivers. In a sense, New York is now one of the least historic cities of the world. Practically nothing has remained of Dutch New Amsterdam.

Была названа в честь мореплавателя; способность людей делать хороший бизнес; сохранять, защищать и оборонять; самая впечатляющая достопримечательность города; самая эффектна деловая сделка всех времен; заселенный голландцами; захватил город, не сделав ни одного выстрела; ступил на землю; погребенный под поверхностью бесчисленных рек; вступил в гавань.

· April, 1524

· other Europeans

· a good deal

· forty years later

· in 1783 / April 30, 1789

· a “city plan”

a) Найдите в тексте прилагательные в сравнительной и превосходной степени. Назовите все сравнительные формы для каждого прилагательного:

Adjective, Comparative, Superlative.

б) Выпишите глаголы в Past Simple. Назовите их инфинитивы.

Past Simple	Infinitive	Past Simple	Infinitive
saw was …	see be …

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