25 Form adjectives according to the model and translate them.
N
+ ful care careful
help ………………. hope ....................... success ................. trust ……………….. respect…………… faith......................... doubt....................... regretful ...................
26 Form adjectives according to the model.
V + able comfort comfortable
rely............................ prefer.............................. regret ....................... predict ........................... reason...................... depend .......................... accept...................... respect ........................... enjoy........................ question ........................
NOTE! People
are regretful (full of sorrow , feeling or showing regret)
Circumstances are
regrettable
(unfortunate or
contributing to regret)
She had a
regretful frown on her face. She wrote a regrettable letter.Regretful or regrettable? Where is the difference?
27 Fill the missing words: regretful or regrettable.
1 The ..............................mother sent her children to live with their father for the summer.
2 The ........................diplomatic incident occurred because of the translator’s inexperience.
3 The boss described the situation as ...........................................
4 We were ...............................of taking part in this scandal.
28 Form new words from the ones given in brackets and then fill them in the sentences below. The first is given for you.
1 Foxes naturally self-regulate their (populate) population 2 (Hunt)____________ trespass on other people’s land and many pets are killed every year by accident. 3 (Hunt) ___________ is good for the environment because it keeps the number of animals in natural balance. 4 At least half of the summer sea ice will (appear)____________by the end of this century. 5 (Final)___________, scientists concluded that the amount of droughts has doubled in the last forty years. 6 Although most wetlands are far from industrial cities, these ecosystems could be sensitive to (atmosphere)____________pollution. 7 Many volcanoes are near wetlands, or in the pass of (volcano)______fallout.
P
There
is also a perfect form of gerund. This form is formed by
having + past participle
This kind of gerund suggests
that the gerund happened before something else.
No gerund: I
have
been
to South Korea.
With Gerund: My
having
been
to South Korea helped me learn the language when I took classes.
This suggests that the speaker had
gone to South Korea BEFORE he took the language classes.
This rule works not only for the
present perfect, but also for other past tense form.
No gerund:
I took
a physics class.
(past simple)
With gerund:
Having
taken
my physics class helped me in my calculus.