Task 1

 TASK 1: analyze the following texts and identify:

deictic expressions in the texts, and group them based on their categories. Explain each expression by QUOTING relevant parts of the original text. 

OPERATION GRANGER

Detectives investigating a series of serious indecent assaults in Havant and Hayling Island know that at least two were carried out by the same man.

And the methods used in the other incidents- between December 1999 and July 2000- suggest that he could also have been responsible for at least three others.

A major inquiry team has been set up to investigate the assaults, and DNA evidence has shown there is a positive link between two of the attacks – on a 51-year- old woman between Havant and Emsworth and on a 13- year- old girl in a Hayling Island church yard.

Detectives are especially keen to find the perpetrator before he strikes again because his attacks are becoming progressively more violent and showing signs of more planning.

In the most recent attack – on Friday, July 7, 2000, at 7.50pm – a 15- year- old girl was cycling home north along the disused Hayling Billy railway line, now a public footpath. As she reached West Lane she heard someone on the path behind her. Thinking it was a jogger or walker she made way for them to pass, but instead she was grabbed from behind by a man. 

The attacker threatened to kill her if she struggled and tried to drag her into the bushes at the side of the footpath. But the girl managed to fight her way free and screamed for help, frightening the man off.

The terrified girl was then able to cycle to a petrol station and phoned the police. She has been able to describe the man who attacked her as white, clean shaven, 5ft  7ins tall, short grey to fair hair, physically weak, wearing a black woolen  hat, long sleeved, dark colored top and jogging bottoms, and gloves. She has also helped detectives piece together a CD-fit image of the attacker. 

This attack bears all the hallmarks of at least four other incidents since December 1999 – and another reported prowler incident could also have been the work of this man. Based on the victims’ statements, the composite description of the man responsible for their ordeals is that he is: aged 35 to 55 years, 5ft 5 in to 5ft 8in tall, slim to slight build, described by all the victims as physically weak, reasonably deep voice, smelled very strongly of cigarettes, and in four out of the five attacks he wore gloves.

In the May attack, -the only one in daylight – he wore a dark blue sweatshirt or, possibly a blue jacket with side pockets, and pale blue or possibly white trousers or jeans. Police officers want to hear from anyone who recognizes  the description.