Table XII Questions: general, special General questions
Question parts of the sentence
Example: Can you help us? — Yes, I can.
Special questions |
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What? Who? Which? |
question word — direct object
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What did you do in school? |
Question word Auxiliary verb
Subject
Question parts of thesen-tence Predicate
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Why? When? |
Question word — prepositional object |
What are you talking about? |
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Where? How? |
Question word — adverbial modifier |
What house do you live in? |
Prepo-sition 
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How much? How long? |
Question word —subject |
Who told you that? |
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Table XIII Participle.
Present Participle (active and passive) |
It expresses simultaneous action with a verb in impersonal form |
Seeing that I was late, I hurried Being written in Spanish, the article was not easy to translate |
Perfect Participle (active and passive) |
It expresses an action proceeding предшествующее действию, выраженному сказуемым |
Having asked a question the teacher was waiting for an answer Задав вопрос, учительница стала ждать ответа Having been asked the question the boy was thinking of an answerМальчикзадумалсянадответом, послетого, какемузадаливопрос |
Past Participle (passive) |
имеет только одну форму, имеет пассивное значение и соответствует русскому причастию страдательного залога |
At our excursion we saw a building built many years ago На экскурсии мы увидели здание, построенное много лет назад |
Disjunctive questions |
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повествовательное утвердительное предложение |
краткий общий вопрос в отрицательной форме |
Не is an engineer, isn’t he? |
повествовательное отрицательное предложение |
краткий общий вопрос в утвердительной форме |
You didn’t go to the theatre yesterday, did you? |
Сomparison degree of adjectives |
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Positive degree |
Comparative degree степень |
Superlative degree |
one syllable adjective прилагательные |
new |
newer |
newest |
two syllable adjectives ending in -er, -ow, -у, -lе |
clever narrow happy simple |
cleverer narrower happier simpler |
cleverest narrowest happiest simplest |
twosyllables andmore |
beautiful |
more beautiful |
most beautiful |
Irregulars |
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Positive degree |
Comparative degree |
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good |
better |
best |
bad |
worse |
worst |
far |
farther |
farthest |
about distance |
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far |
further |
furthest |
about time and distance |
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near |
nearer |
nearest |
about distance |
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near |
nearer |
next |
about order |
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late |
later |
latest |
about time |
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late |
later |
last |
about order |
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old |
older |
oldest |
about age |
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old |
elder |
eldest |
about seniority in the family |
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Table XVII