II. Grammar Exercises

Exercise 1. Read and translate word combinations and sentences with participles I, II in the role of:

a) noun attributes:

a running student, a moving train, working people, a connected line, a seen film, an explained task, given food, painted eyes, a broken glass, a clamped burner, burning sulfur, a dissolved alkali, a diluted acid, a closed chemist's, an organized meeting, a well-made test.

b) Participial Complex as an attribute:

1. Students graduating from our institute work in different parts of Ukraine. 2. The article translated at the lesson is of interest for me. 3. The experiment conducted yesterday gave important results. 4. My friend living in the students' hostel often comes to see me.

c) Participial Complex as an adverbial:

1. While entering the institute I spent much time at the library. 2. While reading scientific texts I usually use a dictionary. 3. When spoken to, he said he was not at all interested in chemistry. 4. When mixed, the substances melted slowly. 5. Being a member of the students' scientific society he took an active part in the research work.

d) a part of the predicative:

1. Medicinal plants are usually stored in a dark place protected from light. 2. During fifty years the institute has developed and brought into use some 60 medicinal preparations. 3. Where is your friend? I don't see him. - He is taking a chemistry test. 4. Such substances may be classified as oily, pungent, acrid, or astringent.

Exercise 2. Read and translate the sentences, choose the necessary participle from the brackets.

1. Complex mixtures of hydrocarbon compounds (contained, containing) only carbon and hydrogen occur in very large quantities in nature. 2. In 1820 some amino acids were isolated in crystalline form solutions (preparing, prepared) by heating proteins with mineral acids. 3. In the twentieth century the vitamins and elements (requiring, required) only in small amounts were discovered. 4. The most important medicines (discovering, discovered) in the twentieth century are vitamins made by partial synthesis, irradiation, fermentation and other methods.

5. For the determination of vitamin B_p the (testing, tested) solution was diluted with water.

6. The (coloring, colored) matter is used in the production of some perfumes. 7. A perfume is a material (consisting, consisted) of one or more volatile constituents.

Exercise 3. Find the Absolute Participial Construction in the sentences. Translate the sentences.

1. The doctor having made the morning round, the nurses began to fulfill his prescriptions. 2. The case being urgent, the doctor gave some directions to the nurse. 3. The patient having fallen asleep, the nurse left the ward. 4. The doctor having performed the operation, the patient was wheeled to his ward. 5. The patient being very weak, the operation was postponed. 6, Influenza is a rapidly spreading disease, people of all ages suffering from it. 7. Our professor delivered two lectures about influenza, the students listening to him attentively. 8. The students helped the nurse to fulfill doctor's prescriptions, the patients being examined with their help.

Exercise 4. Translate the sentences into Ukrainian, pay attention to the participle in the function of Adverbial or Absolute Participial Construction.

1. The work at the hospital having been done, the doctor went home. 2. Having operated this patient, the doctor said the nurse to give him an injection. 3. The course of treatment having been fulfilled, the patient's condition became better. 4. Having made his round the doctor began to fill in the patients' case histories. 5. Having had an acute stage of the disease for several days, they presented an extremely difficult problem. 6. The operation being over, the doctor asked the nurse to use the heart apparatus. 7. My father suffering from pain, I called in a doctor. 8. Examining the patients, the doctor was attentive. 9. The operation having been performed, the patient's condition began to improve. 10. Having examined all the patients, the surgeon began to prepare for the operation.

Exercise 5. Translate the sentences into English, use the Participial Complexes.

1. Я хотіла, щоб він змінився.

2. Лікар оглядав пацієнта, студенти допомагали йому.

3. Кажуть, що він оперує лише в своїй клініці.

4. Після того, як лікар оглянув пацієнтів, медсестри почали робити ін'єкції.

5. Він вірив, що вона повернеться сюди знову.

6. Було помічено, що хворий одужував швидше після прийому тих ліків.