- •Modal verbs Exercise 1. Comment upon the meaning of modal verbs. Translate into Russian (can, may).
- •Exercise 2. Insert may (might), can (could) or the contracted forms of may not, might not, cannot, could not (mayn't, mightn't; can't, couldn't). Translate into Russian.
- •Exercise 3. Translate into English using the verbs can and may whenever possible.
- •Exercise 4. Comment on the meaning of modal verbs. Translate into Russian.
- •Exercise 5. Insert may (might) or must. Translate into Russian.
- •Exercise 6. Translate into English using the verbs can, may, must.
- •Exercise 7. Translate into English using the verbs can, may, mast. (Based on an episode from To Let by j. Galsworthy.)
- •Exercise 10. Insert to have (to have got) or to be in the appropriate form. Translate into Russian.
- •Exercise 12. Translate into English using modal verbs and expressions (should, ought, to have to, to be to).
- •Exercise 13. Comment on the meaning of modal verbs. Translate into Russian (shall, will).
- •Exercise 14. Insert shall, will or the contracted forms oi shall not, wlla not (shan't, won't). Translate into Russian.
- •Exercise 15. Comment on the meaning of modal verbs. Translate into Russian (should or ought, would).
Exercise 15. Comment on the meaning of modal verbs. Translate into Russian (should or ought, would).
1. If I do lose my temper, 'tis not with ye, or Cornelia either, but with him that should be helping me and never does. (Dreiser) 2. Dad's away at some parsonical conference. I wanted him to take me, but he wouldn't. (Galsworthy) 3. The courage of a Military Tribune should not be squandered in banquet-halls. (Douglas) 4. "I was for letting you sleep on," she said, "but they would go up and wake you. I said you didn't really want to come," (Maugham) 5. He ought to have phoned Simkin earlier, knowing his habits, (Bellow) 6. After a hasty breakfast they consulted. To whom should they go? "Not to the police," said Dinny. "No, indeed." "I think we should go to Uncle Adrian first." (Galsworthy) 7. The lady I liked wouldn't marry me — that is the main point, but that's fifteen years ago and now means nothing. (Forster) 8. If only one editor, he sometimes thought, would descend from his high seat of pride to write me one cheering linei (London) 9....I did something — a certain thing — something I shouldn't have done— but couldn't help itl (Catdwelt) 10. And now you feed me, when then you let me starve, forbade me your house, and damned me because I wouldn't get a job. (London) 11. It isn't the sort of thing one should talk of in private. (Wilde) 12. He seemed to me quite normal, except that he would not go out or see anybody. (Galsworthy) 13. "If Clare's to see Kit and Kat before we start," said Dinny, "we ought to go up, Fleur." (Galsworthy)