Grammar in Use

Exercise 12.Translate the following sentences into Ukrainian paying attention to the Objective Infinitive Construction ( Complex Object)

1. The teacher does not consider him to be a good student. 2. We heard him come in and close the door behind him. 3. She watched the boy buy a newspaper, open it, look it through and then throw it away. 4. The engineer expected the work to be done in time. 5. The discovery showed the atomic nucleus to be a vast source of energy. 6. They did not watch us make experiments in the lab. 7. We know the cybernetics to be an important branch of modern technology. 8. The students heard the bell ring. 9. You can’t make me believe that all these stories are true. 10. In spite of “bad weather” the instructor made the sportsmen continue their training.

Exercise 13.Translate the following sentences into Ukrainian paying attention to the Subjective Infinitive Construction ( Complex Subject)

1. Industrial electronics is said to be a comparative newcomer to industrial plants. 2. Electronic equipments have been proved to save millions of man and machine hours. 3. Electronic equipments have been proved to do jobs better and more economically than other devices. 4. Electronic equipments are likely to find an ever growing application. 5. The future is expected to bring a great many of new applications for machine-building industry. 6. Experiments with special constructions of special track vehicles are reported to have been carried out. 7. The application of electronics in everyday life and industry has proved to increase enormously in the last few years. 8. Electronics is believed to begin when the valve was invented. 9.Electronics equipment is known to have already been applied at the beginning of the century. 10. Electronics is sure to find an ever growing application.

Exercise 14. Translate the following sentences into Ukrainian paying attention to the meaning “to be” with the Infinitive.

1. Their task is to investigate different properties of engine compounds. 2. The overheating of mixture is to be avoided. 3. Our aim is to obtain the purest material possible. 4. Our first task is to calculate the renormalization constants. 5. There assumptions are to be regarded with suspicion. 6. The purpose of computational techniques is to assist in the solution of certain problems. 7. These values are to be compared with the previously reported ones. 8. The best anode geometry is yet to be found. 9. Another method was to list all 24 functions. 10. The main purpose of the learned societies was to facilitate experimental work.

Exercise 15. Translate the following sentences into Ukrainian paying attention to the Subjective Infinitive Construction after the words likely, unlikely, certain. sure.

1. It is unlikely that this computer will be used in that case as it is out of date. 2. This computer is unlikely to be used in that case as it is out of date. 3. Water is likely to be present on Mars. 4. They are unlikely to change their plans. 5. Gas pressure is certain to be the result of multiple impacts of gas molecules upon the walls of the restraining enclosure. 6. Automation is sure to be applied at different kinds of power stations. 7. The molecules of a gas are certain to be in a constant state of motion. 8. The experiments with the laser reflector on the Moon are sure to be of great interest. 9. Dry air is likely to offer a high resistance to the flow of electric current.

Exercise 16. Translate into Ukrainian paying attention for more and much

1. One more present day complicated problem to be solved is that of combining laser and thermonuclear reaction to produce a practically limitless source of energy. 2. A Japanese company is planning to install several more electronic devices on the car instrument panel. 3. The Voice Warning System is one more electronic device. 4. If you make half-hour breaks while getting ready for your exams, your brain will work much more efficiently. 5. Aerodynamics is one more problem to be taken into consideration when designing a hypersonic craft. 6. The wheel-computerized system is much more efficient than those used previously. 7. Cryogenic fuels used both as coolant and propellant make the solution of the superliner surface cooling problem much easier to solve.

Exercise 17. Put the Verbs in the brackets in the required forms of the Tense and translate the sentences into Ukrainian.

1. The question about the new laboratory (to discuss) at a special meeting yesterday at 6 p.m. 2. Different tyres of cars and lorries (to produce) in our country now. 3. This plant (to achieve) great results in producing fuel equipment years ago. 4. Many new service centers (to build) in our country now. 5. The work stil (to finish). 6 My friend (to work) at a new design of this engine when I came to his laboratory a week ago. 7. Different body fixtures (to test) in this laboratory. 8. This alloy (to speak about) now. 9. What you (to do) when I came in? – I (to read) an article on internal combustion engines. 10. The scale of producing a new car (to increase) with every passing year.