Exercise 14 Translate the sentences using the Complex Subject.

1. Говорять, що він найкращий лікар у нашому місті. 2. Бачили, як він перегорнув сторінку і почав читати. 3. Чули, як він незабаром піднявся нагору. 4. З’ясувалося, що я його добре знаю. 5. Казалося, що вони зовсім його забули. 6. Чули, як він грав на роялі та щось співав. 7. Здавалося, що він хотів поставити ще одне запитання, але змінив своє рішення. 8. Очікують, що делегація прибуде завтра. 9. Відомо, що конкуренція підвищує ціни. 10. Здається, він також допомагає іншим студентам. 11. Цілком ймовірно, що вони будуть вдячні за вашу пораду. 12. Сталося так, що ми спізнилися на потяг.

Revision of Modal Verbs

Exercise 15 Rewrite the following sentences in past and future.

1. I can do this work myself. 2. She can translate the article into Arabic. 3. I can buy a dictionary for you. 4. I must do my exercises. 5. He must be at the Institute at 9 o’clock. 6. You must learn the story by heart. 7. We must walk fast to get to the station in time. 8. She must do it at once. 9. I must wait for him. 10. What the businessmen need to know is how the new developments can be applied to industry.

Exercise 16 Comment on the meaning of the modal verbs in the following quotations. Choose one of the quotations and write a paragraph in which you explain it through a series of supporting sentences, and make your own judgement about it. Feel free to agree or disagree with the idea.

1. You cannot fool all the people all the time. (A.Lincoln) 2. If you don’t think about the future, you cannot have one. (J.Galsworthy) 3. One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other. (J.Austen) 4. Those to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events. (T.Eliot) 5. Don’t part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live. (M.Twain) 6. Artists must be sacrificed to their art. Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give. (R.Emerson) 7. He that climbs a ladder must begin at the first round. (W.Scott) 8. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong. (O.Wilde) 9. All things must change / To something new, to something strange / Youth comes but once in a lifetime. (H.Longfellow) 10. Novelists should never allow themselves to weary of the study of real life. (Ch.Bronte) 11. You shouldn’t say it is not good. You should say, you do not like it; and then, you know, you’re perfectly safe. (J.Whistler) 12. Isn’t it strange that I who have written only unpopular books should be such a popular fellow? (A.Einstein)

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