Progress Check

Exercise 1 Complete the second sentence so that it has a similar meaning to the first sentence, using the word given.

1. Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else. (James M. Barrie)

2. The prelude to Tristan and Isolde sounded as if a bomb had fallen into a large music factory and had thrown all the notes into confusion. (The Tribune, Berlin, 1871)

3. Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened. (Sir Winston Churchill)

4. It is time I stepped aside for a less experienced and less able man. (Professor Scott Elledge on his retirement from Cornell)

5. I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it. (Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890 - 1969)

6. Most people would rather be certain they're miserable than risk being happy. (Robert Anthony)

7. Only two things you ignore: things that aren't important and things you wish weren't important, and wishing never works. (David Shore, House M.D., Not Cancer, 2008)

8. To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die. (Marquis de Vauvenargues)

9. Patience is the most necessary quality for business, many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request. (Lord Chesterfield)

10. We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about. (Charles Kingsley)

Exercise 2 Put the verbs in brackets into the correct form of Subjunctive II. Analise the first ten sentences.

1. You talk as though it ... (be) a small thing to leave your country forever.

2. I hate driving. I'd much rather you ............................ (drive).

3. If only I ....................... (be) insured! (But I wasn't insured.)

4. If you .... (not take) those photos, we wouldn't have been arrested.

5. I wish high heels ................. never ............... (be) invented.

6. He looks as though he ............ never .......... (get) a square meal, but in fact his wife feeds him very well.

7. You ............... (have) better not go out. It’s going to rain.

8. Even if it ... (be) pouring with rain, I wouldn’t stay at home.

9. It’s about time the public ..................... (know) the truth.

10. ........... I ........ (not see) it myself, I'd never have believed it.

11. I'll pay you by cheque monthly. ~ I'd rather you ... (pay) me cash weekly.

12. If only I... (keep) my mouth shut! What I said made matters worse.

13. I said 'Sunday'. ~ I wish you ................... (not say) Sunday. We'll never be ready by then.

14. But I told you what to do. ~ I know you did. If only I ............ (take) your advice!

15. It’s about time I got back home - it's getting pretty late. A flower pot fell off the balcony on to the head of a man who was standing below. It was most unfortunate that he happened to be standing there. If he ... (stand) a foot to the right or left, he ... (be) unharmed.

16. That man has brought us nothing but trouble. I wish I never ............................... (set) eyes on him.

17. Can I take your best umbrella? ~ I'd rather you ... (take) the other one

18. If you .............. (have) a peep hole in your door you would have seen who was standing outside and kept the door shut.

19. I wish I .............. (not try) to repair it. I only made it worse.

20. If I (not have) rubber gloves on I would’ve been electrocuted

Exercise 3 Translate the sentences using Subjunctive II.

1. Вже північ. Нам вже час іти.

2. Йшов дощ. Ми б краще залишились, але вдома чекали діти.

3. Ти б краще зняв своє вологе взуття.

4. Краще б ти тоді залишився. Ти б не захворів.

5. Він ходить так, ніби у нього дерев’яна нога.

6. Він говорить так, ніби сам все зробив, але, по суті, Том та я зробили більшу частину роботи.

7. (Батько сину): Я підтримував тебе увесь час, поки ти навчалася в університеті. Тепер я думаю прийшов час тобі самому заробляти гроші. Адже не так вже це й важко знайти роботу.

8. Дружина: «Я б хотіла знайти роботу»

Чоловік: «Як на мене, ти б краще залишалася вдома та опікувалась домашніми справами.»

9. Шкода, що я не знаю, що з моєю машиною.

10. Я шкодувала, що поряд не було нікого мені допомогти.

11. Я шкодувала, що не знала раніше, як це було небезпечно.

12. Чому ти не складеш екзамен з водіння. Адже це не так вже й складно вивчити правила дорожнього руху.

13. Здається, буде дощ. Ти б краще взяв з собою зонтик.

14. Час вже їм відремонтувати дороги.

15. Шкода, що я не прийшов до вашого ресторану тиждень тому. Прийшов би я раніше, я б з’їв цей стек свіжим.

16. Він зажди говорить так, ніби звертається до загальних зборів.

17. Шкода, що ти дала йому мій номер.

18. Якби ж тільки він тоді знав, як лікувати ту хворобу.

19. Припустимо ти б завтра втратив роботу, що б ти робив?

20. Уяви, що ти не знаєш, коли наступного разу тобі зможеш поїсти?