Exercise 9. Analyze Gerundial Constructions

Analyze Gerundial Constructions. Determine the functions of the Gerunds (Subject, Direct / Indirect Object) in the English sentences and translate them into Ukrainian

1. This will lead to his avoiding us.

2. Не was always fond of visiting new scenes and observing strange characters and manners.

3. He was educated at Oxford, and devoted himself to the study of medicine, but his weak health prevented him from becoming a physician by profession.

4. Travelling around the above-mentioned African countries I could not help comparing their development with that of Tajikistan.

5. This book aims at acquainting advanced students of English with the language as used by the best masters of contemporary English literature.

6. It is worth noting in this connection that there are at least two kinds of analysis practiced by science.

7. In the United States after the October Revolution the volumes of Mrs. Garnett's translations of Chekhov kept on appearing, and his influence grew.

8. The Puritans were far from being the earliest among the English colonists of North America.

9. Since then I have thought seriously of writing an article for your magazine myself.

10. Anthropologists have been in the habit of studying man under three rubrics of race, language and culture.

11. They proceeded very cautiously for fear of being caught.

12. All these communities relied mainly on hunting, fowling and fishing.

13. Then as now, sweet potatoes were the staple food. Eyrau complains in one of his letters of having to eat them all day long.

14. The author regrets that the scope of this work precludes him from giving in a popular manner the results that they have obtained.

15. With one or two rare exceptions the novelists of the 19th century never succeeded in drawing convincing men and women of the working class.

16. One of the conclusions is that without language there is no understanding among people, and without understanding there is no chance of their being able to work together.

17. From these examples it is easy to see that climate by itself, is capable of influencing culture.

18. Elizabeth hindered France from giving effective aid to Mary Stuart by threats of an alliance with Spain.

19. Some old inscriptions are found in which the writing instead of always beginning either at the right or the left, runs back and forth.

20. This novel took Goncharov some twenty years to write, during which process he repeatedly kept changing or even eliminating certain portions.

21. 20. It is also worth remembering that translating is necessitated not only by differences in the national language of speakers or writers, but also by distance in space and time within a single language.

22. In the early spring of 1959, a field team from the Shensy Institute of Archaeology set out to locate the ancient capital with the object of obtaining a more systematic understanding of the social structure and culture of these times.

23. These strange-looking marks on bricks and tablets of clay or cut on rocks were known to Europeans for many years before anyone succeeded in finding out what they meant.

24. This book hardly explains why three thousand ordinary soldiers, representatives of peasantry, marched into Senate Square in St.-Petersburg on December 14, in an effort to keep Nicholas I from being crowned tsar.

25. In his youth he travelled extensively throughout the Congo area, and he is credited with having brought the art of weaving to the Bushongo from the West.

26. Classical tradition was against mixing prose and verse, or comedy and tragedy in the same play.

27. I did not feel like tramping and there borrowed a boat.

28. The author was furious at being so cruelly ridiculed in the magazine and they were afraid he would leave them for another publisher.

29. Meanwhile a sudden gale sprung up, and in spite of all our efforts we fell gradually to leeward, and were in danger of being sent to the bottom.

30. Long before the development of structural doctrines, scholars like Henry Sweet, Paul Passy, and Otto Jespersen had seen that the fact that people speak in order to communicate, cannot help influencing the nature and evolution of speech sounds.