Grammar in use Absolute Participle Construction (revision)

Exercise 1. Match the beginning of the sentence in column A and the end of the sentence in column B and translate the sentences into your native language:

A	B
1. There being no high temperature,	he made the diagnosis of nephritis.
2. A man having got into the car crash,	intense pain may appear.
3. The patient being exhausted by the treatment	the patient felt better.
4. Viruses being highly virulent,	he could make a preliminary diagnosis.
5. The doctor having asked the patient about his complains,	he fell asleep immediately.
6. The doctor having looked through the results of patient’s urine analyses,	they can survive in water, food and hands for many days.
7. The man having been operated,	he was brought to the post-operating ward.
8. The movement of the stone causing duct obstruction	he was brought into the reception ward of the city hospital by an ambulance.

Exercise 2. Open the brackets, use an appropriate form of Participle and translate the sentences into your native language:

1. Normal urine (to be) free from bacteria and fungi it is practically sterile fluid.

2. There (to be) no symptoms, stones may be carried in kidneys for years.

3. The parents (to call) in an ambulance in panic, they forgot to tell address.

4. Muscles in the ureter walls continually (to tighten) and (to relax), the urine is forced downward, away from the kidneys.

5. A nurse (to give) an injection of anesthetics she asked whether he had an allergy to novocaine.

6. The woman (to hospitalize) with pains, she was operated immediately on her kidney obstruction.

7. The patient (to have) a large stone in his kidney, it resulted in the destruction of the kidney.

8. Kidneys (to discharge) metabolic waste products and excess of water from the body, it regulates blood volume and pressure.

Exercise 3. Put questions to the underlined words.

1. Tuberculosis may affect not only the lungs but also other organs.

2. Patients with pyelonephritis are administered antibiotics.

3. The patient’s pulse rate became irregular and accelerated on physical exertion.

4. Next Monday the patient will be made a biopsy of the left kidney.

5. The patient has lost 3 kilograms of weight this month.

6. The process of urination must be controlled by the nerves in the brain and spinal cord.

7. These patients have just taken the prescribed drugs.

8. The diagnosis was approved by the results of urine analyses.

Exercise 4. Open the brackets and put the verbs in a correct form.

1. The patient (not to take) this medication now.

2. The condition of the patient (to improve) a little since yesterday. It’s better now.

3. The urinary bladder (to excrete) about 1,5 l of urine per day.

4. Vitamins (to take) daily for optimal health.

5. The patient (to discharge) from the hospital in 2 days.

6. After the injection, given an hour ago, he (to feel) much better.

7. The drug (to store) in a place protected from light.

8. At the prescription department medicines (to make up) according to prescriptions.