2. Comment on the use of the Subjunctive mood forms in the following quotations used in complex sentences with subordinate clau­ses of condition. Translate into Ukrainian.

1. If I could always read, I should never feel the want of society (J. Byron). 2. You will hear more good things on the outside of a stagecoach from London to Oxford than if you were to pass a twelvemonth with the undergraduates, or heads of colleges, of that famous city (W. Hazlitt). 3. If all the year were playing holidays, to sport would be as tedious as to work (W. Shakespeare). 4. If wishes were horses, beggars would ride. If turnips were watches, I would wear one by my side. And if “ifs” and “ands” were pots and pans, there’d be no work for tinkers (Nursery rhyme). 5. If I hadn’t been a writer, I think I should have been a gardener (A. Chekhov). 6. We could never have loved the earth so well, if we had had no childhood in it. (G. Eliot). 7. I have loved the principle of beauty in all things, and if I had had time I would have made myself remembered (J. Keats). 8. We should have a great many fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves (J. Locke). 9. Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions (H. Longfellow). 10. If all the world were just, there would be no need of valour (Plutarch). 11. Silence is the perfectest herald of joy; I were but little happy if I could say how much (W. Shakespeare). 12. If there had been a censorship of the press in Rome we should have had today neither Horace nor Juvenal, nor the philosophical writings of Cicero (F. Voltaire). 13. Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter (T. Jefferson). 14. If dogs could talk, perhaps we’d find it just as hard to get along with them as we do with people (K. Capek). 15. If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers (Ch. Dickens). 16. If I esteemed you less, Envy would kill pleasure (P.B. Shelley). 17. If Cleopatra’s nose had been shorter the whole history of the world would have been different (B. Pascal). 18. Had we lived, I should have had a tale to tell of the hardihood, endurance, and courage of my companions which would have stirred the heart of every Englishman (R.F. Scott). 19. If all the world and love were young, / And truth in every shepherd’s tongue, / These pretty pleasures might me move / To live with thee, and be my love (Sir W. Raleigh).

3. Comment on the meaning of the Subjunctive mood forms of the following quotations used in simple sentences with imp­lied condition, pseudo-subclauses of comparison and condition and comp­lex sentences with subordinate clauses of condition, concession and comparison. Translate into Ukrainian.

1. There would be no great ones, if there were no little ones (G. Herbert). 2. As if I would talk on such a subject (L. Carroll). 3. If youth knew, if age could. If only youth had the knowledge; if only age had the strength (H. Estienne). 4. I wish our clever young poets would remember my ho­mely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose – words in their best order; poetry – the best words in the best order (S. Coleridge). 5. The strain of illegitimacy, unbleached by nobility or wealth, would have been a strain indeed (E. Austen). 6. Looked as if she had walked straight out of the Ark! (S. Smith) 7. For all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these: “It might have been” (J.G. Whittier). 8. Though all the world be false, still will I be true (A. Trollope). 9. “Boys will be boys –” And even that wouldn't matter if we could only prevent girls from being girls” (A. Hope). 10. I wish he would explain his explanation (G. Byron). 11. I wish you would read poetry sometimes. Your ignorance cramps my conversation (A. Hope). 12. If he were to be made honest by an act of parliament, I should not alter in my faith of him (B. Jonson). 13. We make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars; as if we were villains by necessity, fools by heavenly compulsion (W. Shakespeare). 14. If I were not Alexander I would wish to be Diogenes (Alexander of Macedon). 15. If parents would only realize how they bore their children (W. Shakespeare). 16. Reviewers are usually people who would have been poets, historians, biographers, etc., if they could; they have tried their talents at one or at the other, and have failed; therefore they turn critics. (S. Coleridge). 17. I wish I loved the Human Race; / I wish I loved its silly face; / I wish I liked the way it walks; / I wish I liked the way it talks; / And when I’m introduced to one, / I wish I thought What Jolly Fun! (W. Raleigh)