Английский язык. Ч. 4. Гималетдинова Г.К - 21 стр.

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                       Выражение пожелания и сожаления
     Сожаления и пожелания выражаются в английском языке с помощью
глагола to wish и придаточного изъяснительного (object clause).
     I wish I knew her phone number. – Как жаль, что я не знаю ее телефон-
ный номер. (Хотела бы я знать ее телефонный номер).
     I wish I had met you earlier. – Как жаль, что я раньше тебя не встретила.
                        Реальная ситуация              Выражение пожелания,
                                                              сожаления
 Ситуация в I don’t know her address.             I wish I knew her address.
 настоящем / He has to stay at home tonight.      He wishes he didn’t have to
 будущем                                          stay at home tonight.
                We can’t speak English well.      We wish we could speak Eng-
                                                  lish well.
                It is raining today.              I wish it were not raining today.
  Ситуация в I didn’t read the text at home.      I wish I had read the text at
   прошлом      She wasn’t at the party yester- home.
                day.                              She wishes she had been at the
                                                  party yesterday.
     Note: при выражении сожаления или пожелания относительно ситуации в
настоящем или будущем, глагол to be всегда употребляется в форме were,
вне зависимости от лица и числа подлежащего, к которому он относится.
     I wish he were here now. – Как жаль, что его сейчас нет здесь.
     I wish the house were not so expensive. – Как жаль, что дом такой дорогой.
      Упражнение 10. Определите, относится ли выраженное пожелание,
сожаление к прошлой, настоящей или будущей ситуации.
      1) I wish I lived alone. 2) I wish I could go with you tomorrow. 3) I wish I had
told the truth. 4) He wishes he had a good friend. 5) They wish they lived in their
own house. 6) She wishes she had bought that dress. 7) We wish we hadn’t in-
vited him for the party. 8) I wish I could swim well. 9) We wish we had refused to
go there with them. 10) I wish she were not so lazy.
      Упражнение 11. Составьте предложения, описывающие, какой являет-
ся ситуация в реальности.
      Образец: I wish I had a car. – I don’t have a car.
      1) I wish my family lived not far from me. 2) He wishes he had not gone to
bed so late yesterday. 3) I wish you were listening to me. 4) We wish he were not
so late. 5) I wish I could help you. 6) They wish they had gone to that concert. 7) I
wish you hadn’t put on that ridiculous dress. 8) She wishes she hadn’t spent all
her money gambling. 9) They wish they hadn’t applied to that agency. 10) I wish I
hadn’t smoked in my youth.
      Упражнение 12. Продолжите ситуацию, выразив сожаление или поже-
лание.
      Образец: I have a headache. – I wish I didn’t have a headache.
      1) My tooth is aching. 2) It’s cold today. 3) I don’t have enough money with
me today. 4) He can’t whistle. 5) We don’t know him well enough. We can’t ask
him for help. 6) She doesn’t see well without her glasses. 7) I didn’t have break-
fast today. Now I’m very hungry. 8) We quarrelled last weekend. He doesn’t
phone me now. 9) They invited about five hundred people for their wedding.
10) She told me only half-truth.