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5. The plane ascends and descends at a shallower angle
when horses are aboard (other written language).

V. Underline all the verbs in the following pieces of the
text. Analyze them according to the grammatical meaning they
express (tense, aspect, voice, person, number, mood).
1. The varieties of meaning we have specified so far are
summarized in Figure 6.1 (academic writing).
2. [A storm had damaged the raft on a journey across the
ocean.] Everyone was noticeably quieter, each man thinking about
the chances of whether we would be forced to leave the raft
(conversation).
3. In spite of the splendid work in the last few decades of a
highly dedicated group of neuroscientists, we are still quite
ignorant about the structure and functioning of the human brain
with respect to such basic cognitive functions as language. In fact,
the study of the brain has often been described at the next
intellectual frontier (academic writing).
4. For no reason, the government assumed that four fifths
of these people probably could read and, on this dangerous
assumption, it was publicly announced that 99 percent of all
American adults could read and write. These are the figures which
the U.S. government passed on to the United Nations for the
purposes of worldwide compilations and comparisons (academic
writing).
5. The king wore it [the Hope Diamond] on a ribbon
around his neck on ceremonial occasions. There is no mention of
what happened to the pieces that were chopped off (newspaper
writing)

VI. Underline all lexical verbs in the sentences below.
Identify the semantic class of each verb. Translate the
sentences into Ukrainian and compare the verbs.

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