5.3. Paraphrase the sentences with object clauses to use inverted word order in the principal clause.

1. We can say with good reason that they will fail.

2. His story just doesn’t add up.

3. There is some evidence that the train is delayed.

4. He did not understand that measles is the disease you have only once.

5. The student did not think there was any difference between the cushion and the pillow.

6. I can truly well predict that people will need ore and steel and iron just as diamonds, gold and platinum.

5.4. Define what types of clauses are introduced by what. Translate into Russian.

1. What they do shouldn’t affect us. 2. Is this what you worry about? 3. What I want now is just a cup of good chocolate. 4. What does upset me, though, is that they think I’m a sucker. 5. And the concierge gives me a blank stare, exactly as though he’s got no idea what I’m talking about. 6. Thought what a pity it was that, with his integrity and conscientiousness, he could see no far than the prerogatives of the crown. 7. What I really need is a place to sleep. 8. Rabbit, with the intervening glass and the rustle of blood in his head, can’t hear what they say. 9. It’s amazing what a bit of home comfort does for the spirit. 10. What he really wants is another map. 11. She should be really sore, or not sore at all, since all he had said was what he had done a couple hundred times. 12. What you don’t like, dear, is that there’s a pain you have to live alongside that can’t be made better. 13. I have said what I have said. 14. This is what it is, he thought, this it what it is to offer oneself and have the offer accepted. 15. What they meant was that it was wicked to be fertile. 16. They uttered water as if this were yet another penalty of damnation; and what they uttered joined with what screamed down glass and lead and moulding, down members and pinnacles, down faces and squared headlands to run bubbling and clucking in the gutter at the foot of the wall.

6. Attributive clauses

6.1. Point out the appositive clauses. Translate into Russian. Analyse the antecedent and the connective.

1. You wake up and grasp the idea that something terrible really has happened. 2. At the end of that trip we met together at midnight in a lonely field, under a blasted oak, and took an awful oath – an awful oath that we should never take paraffin oil with us in a boat again-except, of course, in case of sickness. 3. And when the afternoon was nearly gone, and still there was no sign of rain, we tried to cheer ourselves up with the idea that it would come down all at once. 4. Harry Potter’s well wishers must save a hope that, next time, he bestows his heart on a worthier candidate. 5. Ron had the impression that Harry became too vain. 6. The animal in him swells its protest that he is going west. 7. We were amazed by the news that he could had bought an expensive sport car. 8. He had a little hope that everything would be alright. 9. It was Nately’s father’s idea that he join to the Air Corps. 9. He had been made squadron commander, but had no idea what he was supposed to do as squadron commander. 10. The doctors were puzzled by the fact that it wasn’t quite jaundice. 11. She had a desperate wish that he might come closer, just a bit. 12. She had a feeling deep inside that something might happen right now.