Exercise

Ex.1. ANALYSE the ing -form: state whether it is a Gerund or a Verbal noun. TRANSLATE into Russian.

1. Teddy could almost feel the earth shake from the bombing. 2. But whoever had done the killing, who had been his target? 3. His mind kept returning to the amazing distance he had traveled. 4. It was at that moment that they heard the ringing of Mr. Bateson’s bell. 5. The writer of the book relates these questions and answers in the language or manner of speaking used in the time they are said to have been spoken. 6. After weeks of waiting, she began to understand how awful it was to be alone, with nobody to say a word to. 7. It seemed strange that she should have given no warning to my wife or to me. 8. If this man has any chance of becoming a teacher, these misspellings destroy it. 9. I wouldn’t want to risk adding my name to the blacklist by misbehaving during the ceremony of the school opening. 10. There was much sewing to be done, and many things to be talked over and arranged. 11. Before departing for Moscow she, who was generally a mistress of the art of dressing well yet inexpensively, had given her dressmaker three dresses to make over. 12. I was carried down to the kitchen, a dark and dirty place, full of the grease and soot of the cooking where the pots were always boiling and dozens of menials were at work at the chopping of vegetables and the cleaning or plucking of the fowl, and all the other tasks. 13. The times, places and manner of holding elections for Senators and representatives shall be prescribed in each State, but the Congress may at any time by law make or alter such regulations, except as to the places of choosing Senators (US Constitution). 14. The drive to the airport took twenty minutes, plus more for parking, shuttling, walking, pushing, and shoving. 15. “Little Raphael,” as her sisters called her, had a decided talent for drawing, and was never so happy as when copying flowers, designing fairies, or illustrating stories with queer specimens of art. 16. Those who offered him presents were as much pleased with his manner of accepting, as were those who received gifts from him with his graciousness and amiability in giving them. 17. Then a war broke out and he went away to join the fighting.

Revision of the Gerund