Выделить в этом отрывке все сказуемые , рядом дать их характеристику. Напр. Can go - PrSA, had gone - PPA. He was the only one of us who still sailed the seas. The worst that could be said of him was that he was not a typical member of his profession. He was a sailor, but he was also a vagabond, whereas most sailors are, so to speak, sedentary. They are homebodies by nature, and their home - the ship - is always with them, as well as their homeland - the sea. All vessels resemble one another, and the sea is always the same. Against the background of an environment that never changes, foreign shores, foreign faces, the changing face of life glide by, veiled not by a sense of mystery, but by a slightly contemptuous ignorance, for mysterious to the sailor is only the sea - his lord, - a sea as uncharted as fate itself. After a day's work, an occasional walk or a drink ashore reveals to a sailor the mystery of a whole continent, and usually the sailor comes to the conclusion that the mystery should not have been revealed. Sailors' stories are characterized by simplicity, and their meaning is as if encased in a nut shell. But Marlowe was not a typical sailor (apart from his love of making up stories), and for him the meaning of the episode was not inside, like the kernel of a nut, but in the conditions that the episode revealed: the way the ghostly moonlight sometimes makes fog rings visible.
