Exercise 1.Определите время, залог и функцию причастия I.
Образец1: Mentioning – Present Participle Active Voice, обстоятельство.
1. One can’t describe any country not mentioning its surface.
2. Being crossed by the mountain chains, the country is visited by cold and warm winds.
3. While you are walking along the streets of Washington, you can find the “Eye Street”.
4. There are 50 stars on the American flag symbolizing 50 states of the USA.
5. Columbus Day is a holiday commemorating Christopher Columbus’s discovery of America.
6. You can find the streets of Washington are lettered, when you are walking along them. Образец2: Walking – Present Participle Active Voice, часть составного сказуемого.
7. Under the Capitol dome there are a monumental hall calling the Rotunda.
8. There is an eagle holding an olive branch and arrows.
9. They are symbolizing a desire for peace and the ability to wage a war.
10. You can see on the American flag 13 stripes representing 13 original states.
Exercise 2.Определите время, залог и функцию герундия.
Образец1: Talking – Present Gerund Active Voice, подлежащее.
1. English bowler hats, tea and talking about the weather are famous all over the world.
2. In the Middle Ages young English girls went to fields washing their faces with dew.
3. Dancing round the Maypole by people was necessary on May1 in England.
4. English people are more prepared to experiment with different styles of cooking.
5. A lot of foreigners like having been invited to English native parties.
Образец 2: Having been invited – Perfect Gerund Passive Voice, прямое дополнение.
6. Thanksgiving is a solemn occasion, a day to remember the many who are less well off, in America and throughout the world.
7. Americans are proud of having been the first developed country in the world.
8. Understanding between the nations in the world is the main purpose of all peace-loving people.
9. Smoking can be habit-forming and is dangerous to health of everyone.
10. He who likes borrowing dislikes paying.
1Tiger Woods swung the _golf club_ and hit a hole in one.
2The _host team_won the match in front of thousands of their fans.
3Divers need to wear their _scuba masks_underwater.
4After the competition, the _top scorer_ was awarded a medal.
5Several television stations will have complete coverage of this year's _World Cup_.
6I've booked a _ tennis court_ for tomorrow morning.
7The hikers used a _climbing rope_ to pull themselves up the side of the cliff.
8The boys always show up for _hockey practice_ on time.
Объяснение:
1. I usually get up at 7 o’clock to have enough time for having breakfast.
2. May I call you back later? I cannot speak now – I am getting up.
3. Ivan bought a car. Tomorrow we are going to the University in his car!
4. I often get to the University on foot.
6. We’re in the cafeteria and we are having our lunch.
5. From time to time we have lunch together in our canteen.
7. He plays football in the University team every other day.
8. He is very sporty and cannot help going in for sport - at present he plays football in the University team and planning to start playing tennis.
9. We write test papers twice a month.
10. Next Friday we write our semester test paper.