3. Read and translate the following sentences. Comment on the use of Subjunctive II forms.

1. It’s too late. We’d better go home.

2. Personally, I’d rather be an old maid than marry him.

3. You’d rather not lie to me.

4. Would you rather walk or ride?

5. I’d rather buy a new dress than have this one taken in.

6. I’d rather you had passed your driving test.

7. You had better mind your own business.

8. I’d rather he didn’t leave his things all over the room.

9. I would rather you came tomorrow than today.

10. The question had better be cleared up at once.

11. I’d sooner go for a walk in the rain than do nothing at all.

12. I’d rather you hadn’t told all those lies.

13. I’d rather not have gone yesterday.

14. I’d sooner you didn’t spread that news.

4. Say what you would rather do and what would you rather your best friend did.

Model: make a career in trade or tourism

(1) I’d rather make a career in tourism.

(2) I’d rather my friend made a career in tourism too.

1. learn French or Spanish

2. have a walk or go to university

3. work 9-to-5 or be on flexi time

4. work for somebody or to have your own business

5. work in the office or at home via Internet

6. work for a female or a male boss

7. have interesting and varied work or boring and monotonous

8. deal with paper or with people

9. find temporary work or be on the dole

10. spend your holiday in Turkey or Bulgaria

5. Read the following sentences and comment on the form of Subjunctive II in clauses of comparison. Translate them into your native language.

1. He smiled as if he were amused by my joke.

2. He behaved as if nothing extraordinary had happened.

3. She talks to me as if I were a child.

4. They acted in a manner as though they liked it.

5. She talks to me as if I had committed a crime.

6. He sounded as if he would never let us down again.

7. They were looking at me as though I had said something wrong.

8. You treat me as if I were a piece of furniture.

9. She was breathing hard as though she had been running.

10. She behaved as if she would leave us soon.

11. It was curious to go into her own house as though she were a stranger.

12. You are talking as if you were arranging my business.

13. He started at her as if he didn’t understand.

6. Paraphrase so as to use clauses introduced by conjunctions as if/as though, even if/even though.

1. It seems that more and more young people will go into higher education in future.

2. Some students seem from their behaviour to be only interested in having a good time.

3. They also think they will never repay their student loans.

4. He looked at me so that it seemed he found it hard to believe.

5. He smiled at me so that one might think he saw through my thoughts.

6. I hate to be treated like a child.

7. I won’t believe it. It doesn’t matter whether I see it or not.

8. George picked up the letter as if afraid to open it.

9. Her hands trembled so that it seemed she hadn’t recovered from a great shock.

10. Nothing had been moved but it seemed that somebody had been in the room.

11. Whether you had asked me or not yesterday, I wouldn’t have been at home early.