Exercise 2. Comment on the form and meaning of the verb can. Trane- late the sentences into Russian.

1. I can’t shift the bolts on the wheel, at all. I’ll have to get help. 2. I speak three languages and I can't spell in any of them. 3. You could join her much later if ehe wants you to go on the yacht. 4. “Shall I fill some pots now?” — “You can do the whole thing if you like.’’ 5. Could you stop the car, please, for a moment? 6. Oh, really. She can’t put up with that! 7. I wish he could have a pony of his own. 8. All the shelves were wedged tight with books, but there still existed large numbers of books which could find no place in the shelves. 9. How could she have been so cold, so unloving to this adorable creature? How could she have been so blind? 10. “Oh, it’s you, Sue.” — “Yes. Can I come in?” 11. What is not done today, could be done tomorrow. 12. There was noth­ing he could do about it at the moment. 13. I could never have believed till I came here that natural courtesy could be such a wonderful — such a positive thing. 14. “Why didn’t you stop all that?” — “How could I?” — “You could have found some way.” — “Could 1,1 wonder?” 15. Where’s Miss Laura? She came out right after me. Where can she be? 16. You can’t live other people’s lives for them. 17. If she could go away somewherel 18. What can have happened?

Exercise 3. Use the verb con in the correct form followed by the appro­priate infinitive.

1. He ... (to recite) long poems when lie was six. 2. You ... not (to take) the books out of the reading hail. 3. If you had met him in the street you ... (to pass) him without tak­ing notice. 4. He hated himself for his behaviour, but ... (to do) nothing to alter it. 5. ... I (to come) in for a moment?

You ... not (to do) it. I don’t believe it. 7. I wonder where she is. She ... not (to stay) at her friend’s all this time.

. (to help) him but I didn’t know he needed help. 9. Such problems ... (to solve) easily. 10. He ... (to see) that every­thing in the flat was in full order. 11, How ... she (to work) in the garden now? It is already dark. 12. Of course, there were many things I ... (to answer) to this. But I kept silent.

I simply ... not (to refuse). They would have been hurt.

He wasn’t old ... He ... not (to be) more than forty.

.. you (to work) all this time without any break? 16. She ... not (to forget) what had happened the day before.

Exercise 4. Translate into English using the verb can.

У детей богатое воображение. Они могут легко при­думывать разные истории. 2. Ты можешь взять словарь. Мне он больше не нужен. 3. Не может быть, чтобы она была так груба с вами. 4. Неужели она и сейчас думает обо мне? 5. Неужели это правда, что она вышла замуж за Джона? 6. Вряд ли они приедут сегодня. Уже поздно.

Если бы не ваш зонтик, я бы вся промокла. Дождь лил как из ведра. 8. Не может быть, чтобы сейчас было лишь три часа. Ваши часы остановились. 9. Я могла бы вам это сразу сказать, но мне не хотелось расстраивать вас.

Не может быть, чтобы вы этому действительно вери­ли. 11. Не мог он принять вас за другого. 12. Можно мы возьмем Джека с собой? 13. Неужели они опоздали на поезд? Они же вышли из дома очень рано. 14. Нет, малыш, зимой мороженое на улиде есть нельзя. 15. Вы не могли бы продиктовать мне эту страницу? 16. Неужели они ждут нас у другого выхода? 17. Вы не могли бы привести свой пример? Нельзя давать примеры только из учебника.

Не может быть, чтобы это была Лора. Ее в то время не было в городе. 19. Неужели он был прав?

Exercise 5. Comment on the form and meaning of the verb may. Trans­late the sentences into Russian.

1. I think, when I’m twenty-five, then I may get control of money, 2. You may get up now. 3. The telephone went on ringing. Anne said: “It might be Edmund- He might have missed his plane.” 4. Supper passed off better than might have been expected. 5. His eyes were so close together that I honestly thought they might run into each other one day.

Well, don’t let’s look on the black side of things. She may get over it in a few weeks. 7, I wouldn’t dream of getting in yours of Anne’s way, whatever that may be. 8. I think she feels about you rather as she might about a daughter. 9. Oh please! You tell her. Tell her that you want me to stay. She might believe you. She never believes me. 10. Whatever her idea of fun might be she clearly wasn’t having it, and did not much enjoy seeing other people full of any kind of cheer.

“Why on earth did you shout about brandy in front of the police?” — “You might have got us into trouble.”

He likes to be the first person to be looked after in this house, and if I had a baby he mightn’t be. 13. It was entirely my fault. Please, forgive me. May I kiss you? 14. “He might have killed me," she kept thinking. Indeed, had she stayed, there was a very good chance that he might do just that, by mistake, of course, as he seemed to do most things, 15. There is a chance de Winter might have been seen that night.

“I wonder if I might ask your advice,” he said at last.

“May I speak to you?¹* I said to the nurse. 18. I thought we might go and have a snack together before the show, 19, He seemed to observe them with a detached curiosity like that with which he might have observed animals in a zoo. 20. May it never be forgotten!