- •Content s.V. Shevtsova the intermediate modern english course. First year
- •Kaushanskaya V.L.English grammar exercises
- •S.V. Shevtsova the intermediate modern english course. First year
- •There is/are … . Be. Have
- •Parks of london
- •Degrees of Comparison of Adjectives
- •Degrees of Comparison of Adverbs
- •The Article
- •(A) with the names of meals
- •(B) with names of materials
- •(D) with the nouns “school”, “town”, “table, “bed”, “hospital”, “train”
- •(E) with uncountable nouns
- •(F) with numerals
- •(G) with parts of the body
- •(H) with proper names
- •(I) in close and loose apposition
- •(J) with nouns used predicatively
- •(K) with names of sciences
- •(L) uncountable (abstract) nouns
- •Tense-aspect forms of the verb
- •The Present Continuous Tense
- •The Past Continuous Tense
- •The Future Continuous Tense
- •In the waiting room
- •Adverbs and Conjunctions
- •Exercise 12 p. 84 Translate the following sentences:
- •The Use of the Tenses in Complex Sentences with Adverbial Clauses of Time
- •(B) introduced by the conjunctions “when”, “after”, “as soon as”. (Past Indefinite in the principal clause and Past Perfect in the adverbial clause)
- •The Use of the Present Perfect Tense in the Meaning of the Future Perfect Tense in Adverbial Clauses of Time
- •The Present Perfect Tense
- •The Past Perfect Tense Exercise 32 p. 91 Study the following patterns.1
- •The Future Perfect Tense
The Future Perfect Tense
Exercise 36, p. 93: Study the following patterns:
They will have done their work by 7 o'clock.
By this time tomorrow he will have crossed the channel and will be in England.
In 1990 he will have lived in Moscow for twenty years.
By the time you come back, he'll have been here for two hours.
Exercise 37 p. 93 Complete the following sentences, using the Future Perfect Tense.
1. By the time he arrives they — (leave). 2. She is ill now. By the first of April she— (be in hospital for three weeks). 3. He has bought this TV set on credit. He — (pay all the money by the 21st of August). 4. How long has she stayed with your family? By the end of the month she —. 5. She has lived here a long time. By 2010 she —. 6. He is still a school boy, but by this time next year he — (leave school).
Exercise 38 p. 93 Translate the following sentences, using the Future Perfect Tense.
1. Я надеюсь, что к концу собрания мы уладим этот вопрос. 2. На будущий год к этому времени он проработает на нашем заводе тридцать лет. 3. К тому времени, когда он приедет, я буду жить на юге уже две недели. 4. К тому времени, когда ты приедешь домой, ты забудешь все, что я говорил тебе. 5. К 1 Мая они уже переедут в новую квартиру. 6. Они закончат строительство школы к началу учебного года.
Exercise 39 pp. 93-94 Open the brackets, using the correct tense form. Explain the use of the tenses:
Mr Sherlock Holmes (sit) one morning at the breakfast table in his room in Baker Street. His friend Dr Watson (stand) near the window, examining a walking stick which a visitor (forget) the day before. “To Dr Mortimer, from his friend," was engraved upon it, with the date "1884". Sherlock Holmes suddenly (turn) to Watson and (say): “The owner of this stick (have) a dog which (be) larger than a terrier and smaller than a mastiff."
"How you (know)?" (ask) Watson in surprise.
"I (examine) that stick carefully and (notice) the marks of a dog’s teeth on it," (answer) Holmes. "They (be) too broad for a terrier and not broad enough for a mastiff. Probably the dog often (carry) the stick behind its master. I think it must be a spaniel, in fact it (be) a spaniel.”
Holmes (leave) the breakfast-table and (stand) near the window as he (say) this. Watson (look) at him in surprise and (ask): "How can you be so sure of that?"
"For the simple reason that I (see) the dog at our door and I (hear) the bell which its master (ring). I wonder why Dr Mortimer (want) to see Mr Sherlock Holmes. Well, we soon (know). Come in," he (add), there (be) a knock at the door.
(After "The Hound of the Baskervilles by A. Conan Doyle)
11 “Much” is commonly used to intensify the meaning of the comparative degree, e.g.: “She speaks English much better than Nick”.
1 a US coin worth ten cents
1 Sometimes the verb “take” may form a similar phrase.
1 The Continuous tense forms are seldom used in adverbial clauses of time introduced by “as” and should be avoided.
1 She has always been s also possible. It is less emphatic.
1 In the principal clause of a complex sentence with an adverbial clause of time introduced by “before” both the Past Indefinite and Past Perfect are possible, eg “The family lived (had lived) in Kiev before the war broke out”.