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Вы не против, если я закурю?
His being a foreigner was bad enough.
То, что он был иностранец, было уже плохо.
I could hardly imagine your being late.
Мне было трудно представить себе, что ты опаздываешь.
Their having come was strange enough.
Было достаточно странно, что они пришли.
Practical Tasks
Exercise 1. Identify the structures ing-forms and give Russian equivalents of the
relevant part of the sentence as shown in the following example.
Example: Noticing relationships in this observations, the scientist attempts to classify
and explain them.
Noticing... the scientists attempts... Замечая... ученый пытается...
Noticing relationship in his observations is very important for every scientist.
Noticing... is important... Замечать... важно..
1. Establishing relationship between the phenomena of the Universe is a major task of
theory. 2. Having reported of his discovery of rays of unknown nature Bequerel
excited the curiosity of Maire Curie. 3. Realizing the necessity for a different
approach the physicists reluctantly abandoned the project. 4. Confining his attention
to one problem the scientist will surely achieve its solution much sooner. 5. Putting
the discovery to use sometimes requires more effort than making it. 6. Pointing out
their mistakes to some people is often quite difficult.
Exercise 2. Identify the ing-forms and give Russian equivalents of the relevant
part of the sentence.
1. If you never thought of asking a question you are not interested in having the
answer. 2. If you want to succeed in interesting the audience you should not try
surprising them with an isolated fact. 3. By having defined one’s research objective
one has already made the first , and the most important step towards the final success.
4. Modern chemistry is primarily concerned with building structural bonds between
the elements of matter. 5. Many useless experiments were prevented from being
made by an adequate theory. 6. A true scientist is interested in being told about his
mistakes. 7. Research is searching without knowing what you are going to find. 8.
His research resulted in establishing a new mechanism of the process. 9. The
accuracy of the instrument while being inferior to that of others is satisfactory for
many industrial applications. 10. When being angry, count a hundred.
Exercise 3. Give English equivalents of the italicized parts of the sentences, using
the verbs given below.
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