Exercise 1. Find the gerunds in the following sentences and translate them into Russia.
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
Give up eating a lot of candy.
I like getting presents.
Would you mind waiting in the hall?
Excuse me for interrupting you.
I’m looking forward to seeing you.
It’s worth going there.
I can’t help telling you the story.
This film is worth seeing.
Driving a car is one of my hobbies.
Travelling abroad can be exciting enough, but just now it is more exciting being here.
This is the right way of doing it.
I’m fond of playing chess.
I was tired of waiting.
She stopped answering my letters and I wondered what the matter might be.
Can you recall having mentioned the fact to anybody?
On being told the news she gave a gasp of surprise.
She denied having been at the station that evening.
Exercise 2. Use the gerund of the verb in brackets.
They denied ………… the money. (steal)
I don’t enjoy ……………. very much. (drive)
Has it stopped …………. yet? (rain)
Why do you keep ………… me questions? (ask)
Please stop ………… me questions. (ask)
One of the boys admitted …………… the window. (break)
Ann was having dinner when the phone rang. She didn’t answer the phone, she just carried on ………….. (eat)
Are you fond of ………… ? (play tennis)
The baby began ………….. in the middle of the night. (cry)
Why do you avoid ………….. me? (see)
We insist on ………….. him there at once. (send)
You never mentioned …………… to them on the subject. (speak)
I don’t remember ever ………….. you. (see)
Ибо я получу вдвое больше того, что ты взял
Благословляю тебя за то, что обманываешь меня
Ибо я буду благословлен еще
Благословляю тебя за то, что ты подвел меня, когда я нуждался в тебе больше всего
Ибо я найду утешение и удобство
Благословляю тебя за ложь мне
Ибо я приобрету правдивость
Благословляю тебя за твою ненависть
Ибо я обрету любовь
Благословляю вас за все вышесказанное и многое другое
Для твоего понимания и креста,
Ты не отвечаешь передо мной.
Ибо есть свобода в отпускании
1. Mr West said he was very tired.
2. He said he was flying to Rome the next day.
3. George said he had lived in that village all his life.
4. Peter said to me that he couldn't go out with me because he was not feeling well.
5. Helen said to me that she hoped I had enjoyed myself.
6. She said she had been to Paris many times.
7. Jane said to her father that she wanted to study medicine.
8. Mary's friend said that she was wrong.
9. He said to me that he had seen my friend at the cinema the day before.
10. She said to him that she had called him up but he hadn't answered an hour before.