Оригинал на английском:
Focus on Syntax
Capital letters mark the beginning of a sentence. They are also used for proper nouns: personal names and titles, nationalities, languages, days of the week, months of the year, seasons, public holidays, geographical locations. Capital letters are used for titles of books, magazines, newspapers. Note that if a proper naine consists of two or more words, all the content words in the name are capitalized: The British Museum. Cf.: Музей прикладного искусства.
35. Some of the sentences below have mistakes. Find these sentences and correct the mistakes.
1. ‘The Times’ has a Sunday colour supplement. 2. We often buy french bread in the form of thick sticks. 3. Jane Austin’s *Sense and sensibility’ made a really great impression on me. 4. Sigmund Freud was an Austrian doctor who developed a new system for understanding the way that people’s minds work. 5. Mecca is a city in Saudi arabia where the prophet Muhammad was born. 6. ‘Casablanca’ with Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman is considered an all-time classic. 7. The Rolling stones, one of the most successful groups ever, first became popular in 1963. 8. October is the tenth month of the year between september and november. 9. The romans are remembered as skilled and effective soldiers, great builders and engineers.
Capital letters mark the beginning of a sentence. They are also used for proper nouns: personal names and titles, nationalities, languages, days of the week, months of the year, seasons, public holidays, geographical locations. Capital letters are used for titles of books, magazines, newspapers. Note that if a proper naine consists of two or more words, all the content words in the name are capitalized: The British Museum. Cf.: Музей прикладного искусства.
35. Some of the sentences below have mistakes. Find these sentences and correct the mistakes.
1. ‘The Times’ has a Sunday colour supplement. 2. We often buy french bread in the form of thick sticks. 3. Jane Austin’s *Sense and sensibility’ made a really great impression on me. 4. Sigmund Freud was an Austrian doctor who developed a new system for understanding the way that people’s minds work. 5. Mecca is a city in Saudi arabia where the prophet Muhammad was born. 6. ‘Casablanca’ with Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman is considered an all-time classic. 7. The Rolling stones, one of the most successful groups ever, first became popular in 1963. 8. October is the tenth month of the year between september and november. 9. The romans are remembered as skilled and effective soldiers, great builders and engineers.