- •Grammar exercises
- •The indicative mood
- •Revision exercises on tense and voice
- •(To Units One—Three)
- •1. A) Comment at» the use of the Present Indefinite and the Present Continuous:
- •B) Use the Present Indefinite or the Present Continuous instead of the infinitives in brackets:
- •2. Translate the sentences into English, using I hear and I am told where possible:
- •3. A) Comment on the Present Perfect and the Present Perfect Continuous:
- •B) Use the Present Perfect or the Present Perfect Continuous instead of, the infinitives in brackets:
- •C) Translate these sentences into Russian:
- •4. Use the Past Indefinite or the Present Perfect instead of the infinitives in brackets:
- •5. A) Comment on the Past Indefinite, the Past Continuous, the Past Perfect and the Past Perfect Continuous:
- •B) Use the required past tense instead of the infinitives in brackets:
- •6. Translate the sentences into English, paying attention to the use of tenses:
- •7. A) Comment on the use of the future tenses (the Future Indefinite, the Future Continuous and the Future Perfect):
- •B) Use the required future or present tense instead of tee infinitives in brackets where necessary:
- •8. Use the reguired tense instead of the infinitives in brackets:
- •9. Replace the Infinitives in brackets by the required tense, paying attention to the sequence of tenses:
- •10. Change the following from direct into indirect speech:
- •11. Use the required teases instead of the infinitives in brackets:
- •12. Think of a suitable context to use the following sentences:
- •13. Translate these sentences Into English:
- •14. Use the required tenses instead of the infinitives in brackets:
- •15. Comment on the use of tenses in the following sentences and translate them into Russian:
- •16. Use the required tenses instead of the infinitives in brackets and translate the sentences into Russian:
- •17. Use the required tenses instead of the infinitives in brackets and comment on their use:
- •I8. Pay attention to the use of the Continuous tenses. Translate the sentences into Russian:
- •The subjunctive mood and the conditional mood (To Units One—Three)
- •19. Name the oblique moods used in the following sentences and translate the sentences into Russian:
- •20. Comment on the mood of the verb in the following sentences:
- •21. Complete the following sentences a) using the Conditional Mood;
- •B) using the Subjunctive Mood:
- •22. Supply the correct mood of the verbs in brackets:
- •23. Change into sentences of unreal condition:
- •24. Translate these sentences into English:
- •25. Comment on the use of the Subjunctive Mood and translate the sentences into Russian:
- •26. Supply the correct mood of the verbs in brackets:
- •27. Comment on the use of the Conditional Mood and translate the sentences into Russian:
- •28. Translate the sentences into English, paying attention to the use of the Conditional Mood:
- •29. Supply the correct mood of the verbs in brackets:
- •30. Translate the sentences into English paying attention to the use of the Subjunctive and the Conditional:
- •31. Comment on the use of the Old Present Subjunctive and translate the sentences into Russian:
C) Translate these sentences into Russian:
1. I've been wanting a word with you, Lewis. 2. She hasn't bought any new clothes since the beginning of the year. 3. He has written me only once since he went away; I've sent him four letters. 4. I'm going to suggest something to you. I've been talking it over with your mother. 5. Beryl has been telling me the most amazing things. Surely, she must be exaggerating. 6. I've asked him to lunch on Sunday. 7. That's what I've been trying to remember since I met him. 8. "It can't be true. It's a dream I've been having," she thought. 9. You know, I've missed you very much these last few weeks. 10. I'm afraid I don't understand you, Gerald. I haven't changed my mind. Have you changed yours?
4. Use the Past Indefinite or the Present Perfect instead of the infinitives in brackets:
N o t e : Remember that the Present Perfect is always associated with the present, and the Past Indefinite refers the action to some past moment.
1. It is half past eight and you (not to do) your morning exercises yet. 2.1 (to get up) with a headache today and (to decide) to walk to my office instead of taking a bus. Now I am feeling much better. 3. You (to meet) any interesting people at the holiday camp? 4. She (not to have) a holiday for two years. 5. You (to enjoy) Mary's singing? 6. Where you (to buy) these lovely gloves? 7. Where she (to go)? Maybe she is in the lab? — No, I just (to be) there. It's locked. 8. Why you (to shut) your book? Please open it again on page ten. 9.1 am sorry. What you (to say), Mr. Hartley? 10. His face seems familiar to me. When and where I (to see) him? 11.1 hear you just (to get) married. When the ceremony (to take place)? 12. Old George (not to be) here for years! 13. You (to read) "The Man of Property"? — I (to begin) the book last week and just (to finish) it. 14. A few months ago they (to pull) down some old houses in our street and (to begin) to build a new block of flats. 15. Do you remember my name, or you (to forget) it? 16. When I (to call) on him I (to find) that he (to be) out. 17. His first question to the girl (to be): "Where you (to see) the man?" 18. What (to be) her answer to your question? 19. Where you (to put) my umbrella? I need it. 20. He (to sit) there quietly for a while and then (to leave) unnoticed.
5. A) Comment on the Past Indefinite, the Past Continuous, the Past Perfect and the Past Perfect Continuous:
1. He was tired — he was so very tired. It seemed to him that he had been tired for a very long time. 2. Grant went to the drawing-room, where Alison was sitting with a book. 3. She listened, but could not follow what was being said. 4. When it was time to go I asked if I could see the rooms I had lived in for five years. 5. Nobody knew he was going to London on Sunday. 6. All the stories in this book were written before the first World War.
B) Use the required past tense instead of the infinitives in brackets:
1. It (to be) the poorest room Hilary ever (to see). 2. No sooner she (to arrive) at the station than a fast London train (to come in). 3. It (to be decided) to say nothing to Sidney until the answer (to be received). 4. Arthur (to go) up to his room. Nothing in it (to be changed) since his arrest. 5. No wonder he (to be) very tired. He (to work) too hard for the last three months, 6. I (to tremble) tike a leaf. 7. Mr. Dennant, accustomed to laugh at other people, (to suspect) that he (to be laughed) at. 8. She (to say) it in a voice he never (to hear) before. 9.1 (to look) into the kitchen. Mary-Ann (to put) the supper on a tray to take it into the dining-room. 10.1 (to be) fifteen and just (to come) back from school for the summer holiday. 11. It (to rain) heavily since the morning and she (not to allow) the children to go out. 12. Soon I (to get) a letter from her to the effect that she (to return) from the South of France; she (to want) me to meet her. 13. Trafalgar Square (to be laid) about a hundred years ago. 14.1 (to finish) my work for the day and (to rest) quietly in my arm-chair, flunking of the days that (to go) by. 15. George, who (to laugh) loudly, suddenly (to break off). 16. When Bambys mother (to stand) up her head (to be hidden) among the branches. 17. She (to read) the book ever since she (to come) from school and couldn't tear herself away from it. 18. She (to know) Jim for more than ten years, ever since her husband, who (to teach) at that time in a Grammar school in London, first had made his acquaintance through the Labour Party. 19. He (to say) he (to wait) for more than an hour. 20. I (to be) sure they (to talk) about me, because they (to break off) as soon as I (to enter). 21. He (to say) he (to get) two letters from Alice. 22. The rain that (to fall) since the morning (to cease) by the afternoon, but a strong wind still (to blow) and the sky (to be covered) with dark clouds.