Very well (ironical expression of discontent or disagreement)

1. You can’t very well expect me to know all the details. I’ve just started on the problem. 2. You can’t very well have your cake and eat it. 3. What you are saying is all very well for you, and how about me? Where do I come in?

comfortable fortune (income, life, night, etc.)

1. The patient had spent a comfortable night. 2. She had always had a comfortable life.

out of the question

1. What you suggest is out of the question. 2. My staying here another day is out of the question.

give way (to smth., smb.)

1. First he wouldn’t hear of any changes. What made him give way to our reasoning remains a puzzle for me to this day. 2. She was making every effort not to give way either to panic or rage. 3. She felt the ice giving way under her.

be hard on smb.

1. He was forever complaining that life was hard on him. 2. We all thought that she was a bit too hard on the children.

strike smb. as strange (surprising, exciting, peculiar, etc.)

1. The arrangement struck me as rather unusual. 2. The remark struck me as silly, to say the least.

4. Recast the following using adjectives with -some derived troll the italicized words. Make other necessary changes.

1. I’d keep away from that woman, if I were you. There’s nothing she likes better than a quarrel. 2. The child is no trouble at all. 3. This work makes me tired. 4. The car had become a regular burden. It was taking too much of his time and money.

5. Add the prefix out -to the italicized words and making all the other necessary changes rewrite the sentences. Translate them Into Russian.

1. More people had voted for his opponent than for him. 2. He showed better results in everything he did than the rest of the boys. 3. He had an uneasy suspicion that he had stayed too long for his welcome. 4. His arguments proved to have more weight than yours. 5. The girl has grown out of her old things. 6. He appeared to have a sharper wit than anyone of us. 7. He could run faster than any other boy at their school.

6. Paraphrase the following so as to use a complex object with an Infinitive or Participle I.

1. She watched how the snowflakes fell and melted the minute they touched ground. 2. We wanted that he should first get familiar with the plan as a whole. We didn’t want that he should make a hasty decision. 3. I expected that he would be annoyed at the delay. 4. I saw that he was looking my way and smiling. 5. We wanted that she should set to work at once. 6. He believed that it had happened through some mistake. 7. He often heard how she said things behind his back. 8. I find that she’s a rather exciting person. 9. She wouldn’t have it that anybody should take care of the child but herself. 10. She told him that he couldn’t expect that she should go out of her way to try and please him. 11. I believe he has already adjusted himself to the new circumstances. He’s a very adaptable sort of fellow. 12. She said she wouldn’t have it that any of her children should have their own way while she was mistress of the house.