Unit 11 rendering the meanings of the english aspect forms

Exercise 23. Choose the appropriate Ukrainian aspect forms to render the meanings of the verbs in italics in the following sentences

1. At that time the big employers began a wild attack against the workers and the trade-union movement. 2. Following the war there developed an almost universal demand that Canada’s status and relationship with Britain should be re-defined. 3. The militants rallied the black population and their allies against the lynchers, legal and illegal. 4. The world fascist movement which developed so rapidly during the 1930’s, carried an acute threat to the people’s democratic liberties. 5. During the middle 1930’s the capitalist governments refused to rally to the call of the Soviet Union for an international peace-front. 6. In the Social-Democratic parties of the Americas over many years left-wing groups of militant fighters had been growing up. 7. Their appeasement policy had strengthened the fascist beast until finally it leaped upon them. 8. Flyers report that no attempt was made to intercept them until they were near Braunschweig when the Germans sent up their fighters and put up a strong barrage. 9. This had terrified the Home Secretary within an inch of his life on several occasions. 10. The ease with which the hijackers took advantage of this country’s lax enforcement of immigration laws is alarming. At least two of the terrorists were among the estimated 4 million foreigners who have stayed in the country after their visas expired. (I.H.T., Oct. 6-7, 01) 11. We are nearing the 10th anniversary of the ordination of women in the Church of England and the dire predictions of the impending demise of Anglicanism uttered at the time of General Synod’s vote to break with tradition in November 1992 now seem hopelessly misplaced. Church attendance has certainly declined but no more quickly than before. Women priests have neither been the New Jerusalem, as suggested by enthusiasts, nor hell on earth as forecast by opponents. (Ind., Nov. 18, 01) 12. The Greek and Portuguese health services are much worse than ours – but their populations have, or have had, a healthier diet and lifestyle than us. (G., Dec. 10, 01) 13. The new Archbishop of Canterbury [Dr Rowan Williams] is being asked to eat his own highly critical words about the 300,000-strong Freemasons movement. Last year Dr Rowan Williams said that Christianity and Freemasonry are “incompatible” and he has refused to appoint clergymen to senior posts if they are members of the Brotherhood. (T., Jan. 30, 03) 14. In 1983 Gilmore was moved to Kuala Lumpur, to become High Commissioner to Malaysia. It was a less demanding job than those he had held and was to hold in London, but he took it on at a difficult time. (T., March 22, 99) 15. The next day, which was a Sunday, I spent in Lincoln, where I had an engagement to address a meeting of the English Church Union. In the evening I took to dinner Miss Susan Antrobus, who had been associated with Miss Florence Nightingale in nursing, and was the foundress of the St. Barnabas Guild of Nurses. (Lindley)

Exercise 24. Choose the appropriate Ukrainian aspect forms to render the meanings of the verbs in italics in the following sentences

1. Jack Everton came over from Hexley to attend the dismal obsequies of his sister. He was more incensed than ever with the wicked husband, who, one way or other, had hastened Nelly’s death. The inquest had closed early in the day. The husband had not appeared. (Le Fanu) 2. The Home Office has been unwilling to extradite him [Mostafa Kamel Mostafa] to Yemen as there are fears that he would not be given a fair trial. Nor has the Government been able to deport him to Egypt, as he has been a British citizen since his marriage, in May 1980, to an Englishwoman. Last night that impasse appeared to have been broken, when it was discovered that the marriage was bigamous, and therefore void. His bride, Valerie Traverso, then 25, was already married, and had been for previous nine years. Ms Traverso’s first marriage did not end until July 1982, by which time she had been bigamously married to Abu Hamza [Mostafa Kamel Mostafa] for more than two years. (T., Jan. 30, 03) 3. The term “feminism” (or rather feminisme) was first used in France in the 1880s, and almost immediately became the subject of competing definitions. The social movement it described had, in fact, been gathering momentum for a century, and had always been a collage of differing viewpoints rather than a monolithic entity. Back in the 19th century, some radical women preached free love while most emphasized sexual purity, some emphasized women’s contribution in the home while others sought to expand their opportunities outside it. (E., May 25, 02) 4. He pushed open a door. The place inside had been his room. It was a mess. (Pratchett) 5. He finished his lunch and drove on. And as he drove he became increasingly aware that the countryside had changed. He had left the motorway and was on a minor road that twisted and turned. The hedgerows grew taller and more rank. (Sharpe) 6. Until his death this month he was, as he had been for more than a decade, my favourite living poet. (N.S., Dec. 20-27, 85) 7. Mildred s old nursery was at the other end of the long corridor. No one explained who Mildred was or had been. (Byatt) 8. They were not drunk, but had been drinking. (G., Nov. 22, 91) 9. A great many revellers were drunk, and had probably been drinking all week. (Madsen)