I. Define the layer of the underlined units. Be as specific as possible (e.g. literary, barbarisms;
colloquial, U.S. slang).
1. If manners maketh man, then manner and grooming maketh poodle.
2. Riding back I saw the Greeks lined up in column of march. All armed. They were wearing their
short tunics. Now they had on corselets or cuirasses, helmets and their round shields hung at their backs.
3. “You know Brooklyn?”
“No. I was never there. But I had a buddy at Myer was from Brooklyn.”
4. “What’s the dif,” he wanted to know.
5. “All those medical bastards should go through the ops they put other people through. Then they
wouldn’t talk so much bloody nonsense or be so damnably unutterably smug.”
6. Come on, now, folks, shake a leg!
7. “Thou art the Man”, cried Jabes, after a solemn pause, leaning over his cushion. “Seventy times
didst thou gapingly contort thy visage – seventy times seven did I take council with my soul. Brethren –
execute upon him the judgement written.”
8. “Don’t wanna sleep, don’t wanna die, just wanna go a-travellin’ through the pastures of the
sky.”
9. “Goddamn sonofabitching stool,” Fishbelly screamed. “Lawd Gawd in heaven, I’ll kill every
goddamn white man on this sonofabitching bastard earth.”