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2. Read the following sentences paying attention to the forms and the use of Participle I. Translate the sentences into Russian.

1. Sitting in the front row, he had an excellent view.

2. They found his ideas very upsetting.

3. There is a lot of work waiting for me to do.

4. I found it difficult to follow the serial, having missed the first episode.

5. There was a tiny smile playing about the corners of her mouth.

6. Being very tired with his walk, however, he soon fell asleep and forgot his troubles.

7. But, having committed the perfect crime, he became careless and began to make mistakes.

8. Provided you have an airline ticket with a confirmed reservation, 23 rail stations will check in you baggage and issue your boarding card, saving you the formality when you get to the airport.

9. Most of these hotels offer special rates to first and business class passengers traveling with Austrian Airlines.

Grammar Explanations

1. There are the following forms of Participle I:

Active

Passive

Indefinite

She listened attentively, giving her comments.

Being left alone, we kept silence for some time.

Perfect

Having climbed the hill, he sat down to have a rest.

Having been warned that bad weather lay ahead, the captain changed the course.

a) Participle I Indefinite Active and Passive expresses an action simultaneous with the action expressed by the predicate. Participle I Perfect expresses a prior action.

b) A prior action is not always expressed by Participle I Perfect: with the verbs of sense perception and motion, such as see, hear, come, look, arrive, seize, enter, turn, close, open, pass etc. Participle I Indefinite is used when the priority is meant.

2. Participle I has the following functions:

Functions

Indicators

Patterns

Predicative

After the link verbs be, seem, look, become, sound etc.

Your offer sounds tempting.

Attribute

I was taken by her charming smile.

The woman holding a baby in her arms is waiting to see the doctor.

Part of a complex object

  1. after the verbs denoting sense perception: hear, watch, see, notice, feel etc.

  2. after the verb have

I saw him crossing the street.

I can’t have you doing it.

I’ll have you swimming in a week.

Adverbial modifier of

Attendant circumstances

He was standing on the bridge admiring the beautiful view.

Reason (cause)

Being a stranger, he was the most eligible for suspicion.

Time

Usually after the conjunctions while and when

While turning up his violin, soloist broke a string.

Having climbed the hill, he sat down to have a rest.

Comparison

After the conjunctions as if, as though

She looked at him as though waiting for an answer.

Parenthesis

Frankly speaking, I don’t know the answer.

Judging from what you say, he must have learnt the truth.

Notes:

1. Participle I Perfect is not used as an attribute. To express priority an attributive clause is used:

The boy who has broken the window is Tom Winslow.

2. Participle I Indefinite of the verb “to be” is not used as an adverbial modifier of time. Clauses of the type «Когда я был ребёнком» may be translated “When a boy”.

Grammar Practice