1. Are you coming? 2. Hurry up! 3. He is always late. 4. May I live to see the day when he is early. 5. Don’t take that cup! 6. He wished that he might get all the sentences right. 7. To whom must I give the money? 8. On August 3rd is my birthday. May that day come quickly! 9. Put down your pens! 10. They have lived here since 1963. 11. The school of English is just past St. John’s College. 12. It is important that you should come in time. 13. Everything would be in readiness and nothing, absolutely nothing
would happen. 14. Do you remember the funny incident that happened to Mr. Pickwick when he got into the wrong room in the hotel? 15. At midday you can see clubmen going along St. James’s Street with serious looks on their faces as if they were going to church. 16. If only I had known about it!
Ex. 2. In the following sentences point out the “implied negative.
Example. – If I had seen him, I would have spoken to him. – I didn’t see him.
1. If I were you I, wouldn’t follow his advice. 2. If George were here, he would tell us the answer. 3. If he had time, he would translate this text. 4. “If you were the only girl in the world and I were the only boy …” 5. If they had had money, they would have bought the house. 6. If they were rich, they could send their son to a private school. 7. If Bob were here, we could start the lesson. 8. If you were Tom, what would you do? 9. If it were summer, where would you go? 10. If we had had money, we would have gone there by plane. 11. If it were not so wet, we could sit on the grass.
Ex. 3. What is the fact behind the following wishes?
Example. I wish the streets were not so dirty. – The streets are very dirty.
1. I wish I wasn’t out of work. 2. I wish there was something good on TV tonight. 3. I wish I didn’t like chocolate so much. 4. If only I could lose weight! 5. I wish I’d won the lottery. 6. I wish I hadn’t left school at sixteen. 7. If only I’d gone to university! 8. I wish my girlfriend had rung me last night. 9. If only he hadn’t failed the exam! 10. I wish I had enough time to go in for sport.
Ex. 4. Betty Arnold won nearly 10 million pounds. Complete the regrets.
A Life of Regrets
Winning the lottery was the worst thing that ever happened to me. I wish I … I gave my husband £5 million and he ran away with my best friend. I wish … The police can’t find them. If only they … My children have changed. They are always asking me for money, and they won’t do their school work. I wish they … I left my job at the factory which was a bad mistake. If only … I wouldn’t have lost all my friends. I bought a big new house in an expensive part of town but I can’t find any friends here and I am so lonely. I wish I … My life is miserable. My only friend is my psychiatrist. I have to see him every day and he charges £100 an hour! I wish I …
Выделение членов предложения
(Emphatic Structures)
Если на какой-то член предложения (кроме сказуемого) хотят обратить особое внимание, то его употребляют в следующей конструкции:
It is (was) + выделяемое слово + who/whom, that …
Для передачи смысла выделенного слова при переводе на русский язык вводятся дополнительные слова: именно; никто иной, как; ничто иное, как; это.
It was Popov who invented the radio. – Именно Попов изобрел радио.
Для выделения сказуемого перед глаголом (без частицы to) употребляются вспомогательные глаголы do/does в Present Indefinite и did в Past Indefinite. При переводе на русский язык добавляются слова: в самом деле; действительно.
You do look nice! – Ты действительно выглядишь великолепно!
Ex. 1. Translate into Russian.
1. It was Jane and Bill who told me the news. 2. It was in New York that I first met Mrs. Knott. 3. It is Mrs. Knott whom I met in New York. 4. It was yesterday that he was told about it. 5. It was at your party that Ann met Bob. 6. Your sons do draw well. 7. It was the Browns who noticed the fire. 8. It is Peter who has solved this problem. 9. It is Jane who is always late for classes. 10. You do understand me. 11. I did rather want to be off to the country this lovely afternoon. 12. And if they do realize it, they think it’s because they are old customers. 13. It is especially in the evening that Piccadilly Circus is crowded with people going to the theatre or cinema.
Ex. 2. Translate into English.
1. Никто иной, как Том ответил на все вопросы. 2. Именно Джейн рассказала мне о вашей ссоре. 3. Именно этот вопрос интересует его уже многие годы. 4. Ты действительно очень хорошо поработал. 5. Он действительно видел нас вчера. 6. Это Ник разбил твою чашку. 7. Именно в Москве я впервые увидела этот спектакль. 8. Никто иной, как наш сосед пел весь вечер вчера. 9. Именно этот фильм показывали по телевидению в прошлый четверг. 10. Именно эту книгу вы должны были купить. 11. Марк в самом деле прекрасно играет в шахматы. 12. Мы действительно провели чудесное время.
Revision Exercises
(Types of Sentences)