3. Словосложение

UNIT 1

Plural nouns, personal and possessive pronouns, demonstrative pronouns, to be and to have in indefinite tenses, the possessive case, the article Reading: Mr. Snow; Elizabeth II

5

UNIT 2

Interrogative sentences, indefinite tenses, there is /are Reading: The Study of Law at Nizhny Novgorod Law Academy; Three Kinds of Lawyer

13

UNIT 3

Continuous tenses, numerals, word order, prepositions of time Reading: The Party System of the UK; State Organization of the UK

21

UNIT 4

Degrees of comparison, quantitative adjectives, perfect tenses Reading: The United States Government; Congress

29

UNIT 5

Perfect continuous tenses, relative pronouns, indefinite and negative pronouns, reflexive pronouns, the imperative mood, the pronoun one Reading: The US Constitution; The Legislature

35

UNIT 6

The passive voice Reading: The law; Nature and Sources of the Law

43

UNIT 7

If and when clauses Reading: Statutory Law; Written Laws and Records

47

UNIT 8

Indirect speech Reading: Constitutional Law; Due Process and Individual Rights

50

UNIT 9

The infinitive, prepositions (direction and place) Reading: Common Law and Civil Law Systems; Common Law v. Civil Law

57

UNIT 10

Participle I, II. The Independent Participle Construction Reading: International Law; Maintenance of International Peace and Security

63

UNIT 11

The gerund Reading: Criminal law; Crime and Punishment

67

UNIT 12

Modal verbs Reading: Criminal Procedure; Juvenile Justice

71

UNIT 13

Complex Object Reading: Crimes against the Person; Assault

78

UNIT 14

Complex Subject Reading: Crimes against Real Property; Receiving Stolen Property

82

UNIT 15

Unreal conditional sentences Reading: "White-Collar" Crime; Obtaining Property by False Pretenses

86

Reading Supplement

Legal texts

90

Tests

Take-Home test 1; Take-Home test 2

102

Grammar Supplement

Tense, voice, aspect, the modals, irregular verbs, word-building

112