Переведите на русский язык, определив формы и функции герундия:

1. Learning rules without examples is useless.
2. She suspected (подозревать) him of deceiving (обманывать) her.
3. She denied (отрицать) having been at home that evening.
4. After graduating from the university she left Vitebsk and went to teach in her home town.
5. Seeing a good film is a pleasure.
6. He went home without seeing the film.
7. He talked without stopping.
8. Miss Brown was in the habit of asking Mr. Dick his opinion (мнение).
9. He solved the problem of inventing such a device (прибор).
10. He solved the problem, by inventing a new device.
11. Ring us up before leaving home.
12. Instead of reading up for his exam, he is watching TV.

1. When does he get up every day? He gets up at 8 o’clock.

(Present Simple, потому что действие происходит каждый день)

2. They did not drink coffee yesterday. They drank tea.

(Past Simple, потому что действие закончилось в потому что действие произойдет в будущем)

4. Our friends always go to the country for the weekend.

(Present Simple, потому что действие происходит постоянно)

5. The kitten was playing with its tail a minute ago.

(Past Continuous, потому что действие происходило несколько минут в За сделано 5 предложений.

   Sergey Alexandrovich Yesenin – a poet, born September 21, 1895 in the Ryazan province.

   He was educated at the local Zemstvo school, then at the Church school. In 1913 he entered the city people's University of Shanyavsky in Moscow. After the publication of the first collections in the biography of Sergei Yesenin gained fame.

   In 1918-1920 he was fond of imaginism. In the future work of Esenina very critical has been described by Russian leaders. In the autumn of 1925, the poet married. Depression, alcohol dependence, the pressure of the authorities was the reason that the new wife placed Sergei in a neuropsychiatric hospital. Then Yesenin fled to Leningrad. Soon after, Yesenin died and his body was found hanged in a hotel.

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