Раздел 2. Герундий и герундиальные обороты

1. Переведите следующие словосочетания и предложения на русский язык, определив функции герундия (подлежащее, часть сказуемого, определение, дополнение, обстоятельство).

1. a chance of modernizing the production; reasons for installing electronic equipment; advantages of controlling the process; the means of maintaining control; the aim of inspecting equipment performance; the experience of reconstructing; the subject of thinking over; the manner of processing products; processing control; milling process

2. by eliminating operator inspection; by lodging information; without rejecting defective product; without getting rapid feedback; in collecting a sample of product; before storing visible characteristics; after pointing out the reason

3. to apply automated inspecting; to improve sample collecting; to eliminate manual controlling; to introduce non-stop processing; to need installing new computerized machines

4. 1) people began employing automatic devices long ago; the programmable computer will continue displaying and lodging all the necessary information; they finished collecting sample of product some minutes ago

2) one of the benefits of automation is non-stop processing; close control is monitoring the process to increase product quality and quantity; the problem was rejecting defective product as soon as possible

5. changing production cycles depends upon the commands of programmable computer; inspecting food manufacture involves many operations; collecting a sample of the product prevents extra defective product and material waste; packaging is the field of effective employment of robots; inspecting is a process carried out by special vision inspection systems; introducing automation in any industry is the guarantee of its successful development

2. Выделите словосочетания, содержащие герундий.

1. to give convincing examples 2. the necessity of employing robots 3. to point out the following reasons 4. devices controlling a technological process 5. reasons for installing electronic equipment 6. to apply automated monitoring 7. they were installing a new X-ray inspector at that moment 8. the plant was introducing a new vision inspection system 9. deriving benefits from automation the plant management understood that … 10. deriving benefits from process control is evident 11. by collecting a sample of product they could … 12. without experiencing any difficulties 13. experiencing some difficulties we decided … 14. experiencing financial difficulties was the main problem of the plant reconstruction 15. they were experiencing great financial difficulties 16. the problem was experiencing financial difficulties by the plant

3. Следуя модели, переведите на русский язык следующие предложения, содержащие герундиальный оборот:

1. функции: подлежащее, дополнение, определение, обстоятельство

2. имеет определение, выраженное:

а) притяжательным местоимением,

б) существительным в притяжательном падеже,

в) существительным в общем падеже

3. переводится соответствующим придаточным предложением.

Every plant manager considers process control giving great benefits.	Каждый руководитель предприятия понимает, что управление технологическим процессом дает много выгод.
Process control giving great benefits is clear to every plant manager.	То, что управление технологическим процессом дает много преимуществ, ясно каждому руководителю предприятия.

1. Technologists believe quality control of product being extremely necessary. 2. Engineers consider first automatic devices having been designed for simple mechanical operations. 3. We know food plants deriving benefits from process control regardless of what product is manufactured. 4. During their excursion to the plant they learned about fruit juices being filled, sealed and labeled entirely automatically. 5. I heard this mill having been completely automated. 6. The machine maintenance and output being more reliable than its human competitor doesn’t need any evidence. 7. By means of automatic inspection feedback being more rapid to the process is a well-known fact. 8. Programmable controller eliminating the necessity of manual control and operator inspection was proved by practice. 9. A machine having the tireless nature means that inspection is uniform from early morning to late in the evening. 10. PC memory with many commands making easier the automatic change of production cycles is of great significance for any industry.