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(certainly), he does.

1. When did you hear Mary sing that song? 2. You saw Peter cross Lenin Street an hour ago, didn’t you? 3. Why don’t you want Peter to help you in this matter? 4. What delegation is reported to have arrived in Moscow the other day? 5. You are eager to be invited to this party (to this evening), aren’t you? 6. Where is your native town (vil­ lage) situated? 7. What is the population of Leningrad? 8. How far from Moscow do you live? 9. When do you wish a person many happy returns of the day? 10. How often does Helen write letters to her parents?

E xercise 11. Make i0 sentences of your own using the following word combinations:

1. to congratulate somebody on something; 2. one’s birthday; 3. to be from some place (Odessa, Kazan, Vladi­

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vostok, etc.); 4. to show somebody around town; 5. to visit one’s parents from time to time; 6. to keep a regular cor­ respondence with somebody; 7. to have the population of half a million (250,000, etc.); 8. the town (city, village) residents; 9. a quiet town; a bustling city; 10. to be home­ sick.

как Петр переходил улицу Чкалова два часа тому назад. 4. Говорят, что пароход К а л и н и н уже прибыл в Одессу (the Kalinin). 5. Сообщают, что финская делегация вы­ ехала из Москвы в Ленинград (to leave Moscow for. Leningrad). 6. На нашей улице много пятиэтажных до­ мов. 7. Вчера я поздравил Лену с днем рождения. 8. Мне хотелось бы, чтобы меня пригласили на этот ве­

to tell, to walk, to do, to meet, to come, to write.

e.g. Helen was born in Novosibirsk.

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Если перед герундием стоит притяжательное местоимение или же существительное в общем или притяжа­ тельном падеже, то получается целый герундиальный комплекс. Обычно герундий и герундиальный комплекс переводятся на русский язык инфинитивом или прида­ точным предложением.

В разделе также показано применение в речи анг­ лийского и н ф и н и т и в а как в его простой форме, так

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и в перфектной, причем последняя всегда выражает предшествование, т. е. то, что действие или состояние, обозначенное инфинитивом, совершилось или не совер­ шилось ранее действия или состояния, обозначенного глаголом в личной форме.

Сказуемое ‘am glad’ выражает состояние говоряще­ го в момент высказывания по поводу другого действия,

со сказуемым в будущем времени:

б) простым определением с предлогом или вообще без формального определения:

Инфинитив также входит в состав оборота, кото­ рый начинается с предлога for. Весь оборот состоит из for+существит. (или местоимение) -(-любой инфинитив с примыкающими к нему словами.

Обычно этот оборот следует за фразой: it is (was, will be) necessary (important, desirable, pleasant, custom­ ary, usual, etc.):

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В предложениях такого типа этот сложный комп-

определения к существительному:

Copy the text and translate it into Russian.

A. TEXT

The Institute Life*

After passing the entrance examinations one’s institute life begins.

Pavel Korin entered the Moscow Ordzhonikidze Eco­ nomic Engineering Institute two and a half years ago. Now he is a third-year student at the transport faculty. He lives in the, Stromynka hostel. It is thus called due to the name of the street.

* See Vocabulary pp. 8—10; 13—15.

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Pavel is a full-time student, that is he attends classes and lectures in the daytime, whereas the Institute accepts many young people for the evening or correspondence course.

Korin is a diligent student, he tries hard not to cut his classes or lectures. While in the third year he is doing quite a number of subjects. Pavel is well up in Chemistry and Mathematics. He has passed quite successfully the winter term tests and examinations.

Korin is in the habit of doing his homework in the Institute reading-hall. He is a great book-lover and usually borrows magazines and fiction from the library. As the librarians always insist on books being returned in time, Pavel never breaks the rule.1

Recently Korin has become very interested in electron­ ic computers. As soon as a chance came about2, he went to see the Urals-4 computer3 that had been installed at the Institute’s research centre. He is very keen on experiment­ ing4 in the field of planning transportation facilities5 in big industrial cities like Moscow.

There are many serious problems to tackle here and a lot of technical books to read. Pavel is eager to get down to business6, that’s why he has of late joined the scientific club7 at his faculty. He will surely make a clever experimentator8 in the near future.9

Learn by heart.

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of Professor Simonov. It is very important for us to solve some difficult problems. Professor says we’ll have

ficult for a girl of my nature. Though I feel I could tackle a serious problem if somebody made me do it and wouldn’t let me drop it13.

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7 the scientific club — научное общество

8 to make a clever experimentator — стать толковым экспери­ ментатором

9 in the near future — в ближайшем будущем

10 old-fashioned apparatuses and appliances won’t do here —

здесь старое оборудование не годится

4 our faculty academic board — ученый совет нашего факуль­

чи) один раз в две недели

ls don’t fail me! — не подведи меня!

17 just on the minute — минута в минуту; точно в назначенное время

1. What is Pavel Korin well up in? 2. How has he passed the winter term examinations? 3. What do the libra­ rians insist on? 4. Korin has recently become interested in electronic computers, hasn’t he? 5. You’ve already seen

keen on? 8. There are a lot of technical books and maga­ zines to read, aren’t there? 9. Why is it important for you

1. to insist on doing something; 2. to be well up in

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