7.25. Find the mistakes and correct them.

1. Despite she was fastened with the seat-belt, she was still seriously injured.

2. For he was so ambitious he became very successful.

3. Leave me your number in case I will decide to hire you.

4. I am so sleepy I feel as if I haven’t slept for months.

5. He installed the burgling alarm for fear someone broke into his garage.

6. Set your alarm clock for 7.00 so not to oversleep.

7. I’ll learn French when I’ll graduate.

8. I will not leave until you will tell me the truth.

9. I’ve got such little time that I’m very nervous

10. In spite of he did sport, he was not very healthy.

11. It was so a delicious dish he asked for a second helping.

12. Let’s stay here by the time the cafe is closed.

13. We work much with a view to get a pay-rise.

14. Generous nevertheless she appears, she’s in fact a miser.

7.26. Point out the adverbial clauses and define their semantic type. Translate into Russian.

1. Their eyes slid from the big book shop on one side to the record shop on the other as if they couldn’t see the Leaky Cauldron at all. 2. I wouldn’t be surprised if you turn out better than Charlie Weasley, and he could have played for England if he hadn’t gone off chasing dragons. 3. None of you is to move while I take this boy to the hospital wing! 4. “CAR CRASH!” roared Hagrid, jumping up so angrily that the Dursleys scuttled back to their corner. 5. Everywhere Harry went, people pointed and didn’t trouble to lower their voices as they insulted him. 6. As they entered November, the weather turned very cold. 7. Harry nodded, but stopped quickly, because it made his head hurt.8. He didn’t see the owls swooping past in broad daylight, though people down in the street did; they pointed and gazed open-mouthed as owl after owl sped overhead. 9. He sat and stared at Harry for a few moments, then, as though he had suddenly realised what he was doing, he looked quickly out of the window again. 10. Before Ron could say another word, Hermione had disappeared. 11. If they won their next match, against Hufflepuff, they would overtake Slytherin in the House Championship for the first time in seven years. 12. They piled so much homework on them that the Easter holidays weren’t nearly as much fun as the Christmas ones. 13. When he woke early next morning, however, the first thing he saw was a small pile of packages at the foot of his bed. 14. Harry didn’t know whether he was imagining it or not, but he seemed to keep running into Snape wherever he went. 15. If you ever do run across it, you will now be prepared. 16. Like Hagrid, Fang was clearly not as fierce as he looked. 17. Dumbledore gave his wand a little flick as if he was trying to get a fly off the end and a long golden ribbon flew out of it, which rose high above the tables and twisted itself snake-like into words. 18. Harry took out his wand in case Malfoy leapt in and started at once. 18. Not a scar, no visible sign … to have been loved so deeply, even though the person who loved us is gone, will give us some protection for ever. 19. He clicked it once and twelve balls of light sped back to their street lamps so that Privet Drive glowed suddenly orange and he could make out a tabby cat slinking around the corner at the other end of the street. 20. Harry, relax, Hermione’s right, the Stone’s safe as long as Dumbledore’s around. 21. If Snape had been in on protecting the Stone, it must have been easy to find out how the other teachers had guarded it. 22. Since then, I have served him faithfully, although I have let him down many times. 23. The door was hit with such force that it swung clean off its hinges and with a deafening crash landed flat on the floor. 24. For one thing, when Seamus Finnigan asked eagerly to hear how Quirrell had fought off the zombie, Quirrell went pink and started talking about the weather; for another, they had noticed that a funny smell hung around the turban, and the Weasley twins insisted that it was stuffed full of garlic as well, so that Quirrell was protected wherever he went. 25. He was careful to walk a little way apart from the Dursleys so that Dudley and Piers, who were starting to get bored with the animals by lunch-time, wouldn’t fall back on their favourite hobby of hitting him. 26. These fantastic crackers were nothing like the feeble Muggle ones the Dursleys usually bought, with their little plastic toys and their flimsy paper hats. 27. Wherever he was, Filch must know a short cut, because his soft, greasy voice was getting nearer, and to his horror, it was Snape who replied.