English Proficiency Programme

Parsing examples.

• His characteristic talk, with its keen observance of detail and subtle power of inference, held me amused and enthralled.

• This was a tall young man, surprisingly handsome, with a dark, fierce face, and the limbs and chest of a Hercules.

• I made notes of my patient’s pulse and temperature, tested the rigidity of his muscles, and examined his reflexes.

• The hall door had been closed, but not shut.

• Then your eyes ceased to pucker, but you continued to look across, and your face was thoughtful .

• I may say with confidence that he never had occasion to regret his speculation.

• In the example which you read to me, the reasoner drew his conclusions from the actions of the man whom he observed.

• So when I saw you throw down your paper and enter upon a train of thought, I was very happy to have the opportunity of reading it off, and eventually of breaking into it, as a proof that I had been in rapport with you.

• The small matter which I have chronicled under the heading of “A Study in Scarlet,” and that other later one connected with the loss of the Gloria Scott, may serve as examples of this Scylla and Charybdis which are forever threatening the historian.

• Analysis illustrated.