Analyze The Nominative Absolute Participial Construction. Translate the sentences into Ukrainian

1. These tribes supported themselves by hunting, elk being obviously the most valuable game: it provided meat, skin, bones.

2. A University was established at Constantinople in 425, teaching being conducted both in Latin and Greek.

3. Hunting being forbidden there, these little islands are a paradise for geese, ducks and snipe.

4. In such conflicts prisoners are never made, the conquerors preferring the heads of their victims to any ransom that could be offered.

5. In the Celtic regions the population is dispersed, each family living separately with the greater part of its fields around it.

6. The deposits in this place are two in number, the larger being situated on the northern side of the creek.

7. The matter of definitions settled, we may begin our consideration of cultural influences.

8. Three quarters of England was last night blanketed by fog and conditions were among the worst of the winter, with ice adding to driver's difficulties.

9. A French warship arriving almost immediately afterwards, the Japanese explained that the man had been killed by a fall from his horse.

10. China was then divided into several kingdoms, each trying to gain the upperhand.

11. With the Romans gone, Britain became a prey to invasion from all sides.

12. Lesser authors have been treated in due proportion, care having been taken not to crowd the book with names, dates, or unimportant details.

13. The works from which to take the samples having been selected, the second question to decide was that of the quality and quantity of the sample, that is, its composition and size.

14. At that time Latin was the language of professional intercourse in Western Europe, the vernaculars being regarded as only fit for the baser purposes of life, and for the conversation of the unlearned.

15. The new instrument (the plough) being usually made entirely of wood till the Iron Age, its history can only be inferred from occasional pictures, or more rarely from ancient field boundaries.

Exercise 17

Translate into English, using the Objective or the Subjective Participle Construction

1. В дитинстві я часто чув, як матір співала цю пісню.

2. Ми не бачили його вже кілька років, але часто чули, як його ім’я згадували в домі його батьків.

3. Коли він підходив до церкви, то побачив, що люди вже розходились.

4. Учора я не відремонтував годинник, тому що всі майстерні вже були закриті.

5. Не розумію, коли вам вдалося налагодити фортепіано, яке вже роки зо два не звучало?

Exercise 18