| Having madeexperimentsscientists were able to solve the problem. | Проделавэксперименты, ученые сумели решить проблему. |
4. Translate into Russian.
1. Getting off his horse, he began searching for something on the ground. 2. Having seen photographs of the place, I had no desire to go there. 3. Infuriated by the interruptions, the speaker refused to continue. 4. Having stated the laws of gravity, Newton was able to explain the structure of the Universe. 5. Being more efficient than human beings, computers are used more and more extensively. 6.Having graduated from Cambridge, Newton worked there as a tutor. 7. Having been published in 1687, Newton’s laws of motion are still the basis for research. 8. Being invented the digital technology solved the old problems of noise in signal transmission. 9. Having published his book about space exploration in 1895, Tsiolkovsky became known all over the world. 10. Built in the middle of the last century, the British Museum is situated in central London.
Degrees of Comparison
| Положительная степень | Сравнительная степень | Превосходная степень | |
| 1. Односложные прилагательные | long длинный easy big | long er болеедлинный easi er bigg er | (the) long est самыйдлинный (the) easi est (the) bigg est |
| 2. Многослож- ные прилагатель- ные | important важный | more important более важный | (the) most important самыйважный |
| 3. Особая группа прилагательных и наречий | good хороший well хорошо bad плохой badlyплохо manyмного muchмного little маленький, мало far далекий |  better лучше
 worse хуже
 more
less
farther
| (the) best самыйлучший (the) worst наихудший (the) most (the) least (the) farthest |
I. Read and translate:
new – newer – (the) newest; young – younger – (the) youngest; wide – wider – (the) widest; thick – thicker – (the) thickest; low –lower –(the) lowest; early – earlier – (the) earliest; near – nearer – (the) nearest; late – later – (the) latest; difficult – more difficult – (the) most difficult; necessary – more necessary – (the) most necessary; typical – more typical – (the) most typical; practical – more practical – (the) most practical; good – better – (the) best; many – more – (the) most; little – less – (the) least.
II. Translate using the...the «чем … тем»:
a)the more …, the less …(чембольше....,темменьше)
the more different …, the better …
the higher …, the colder …
the smaller …, the better …
b) The more we study, the more we know.
The more we know, the more we forget.
The more we forget, the less we know.
The less we know, the less we forget.
Why study?
The more experiments are made, the better results are received.
The more people know about the nature, the better they can control it.
The more people learn about the Solar system, the more they know
about it.
III. Form the degrees of comparison:
old, distant, few, famous, far, short, big, possible, high, important, badly, different, large, great, deep, heavy, warm, hard.