Translate the following sentences into Ukrainian and comment on the use of tenses.

(a)

1. I’m beginning to detect in myself symptoms like the ones you read of in the books.

2. The federal coffers are being looted for congressional patronage, and it is being done openly and without any guilt.

3. Hydrogen produces no carbon dioxide while burning.

4. A week earlier she had been convicted for lying to federal investigators, and her business empire, not to mention her reputation, was in tatters.

5. I’ve been making inquiries about you. It appears you speak French like a Frenchwoman.

6. If you are using a company computer and cannot change the settings yourself, make sure to check with someone from your IT department before you leave.

7. The car was later involved in a collision with several parked cars in Cromwell Road.

8. ‘You don’t think I’m running after any other woman, do you?’ he asked.

9. Let me know when you’ve finished and I’ll come up and talk it over with you.

10. Sangary says his men had been relying on obsolete land mines left from the Soviet occupation, but thanks to Abu Nasser and Abu Aziz, now they are building
Iraq-style IEDs (improvised explosive devices) and are setting them off by remote control.

(b)

1. Over thirty years ago the Boeing 747 was given the name “jumbo jet” due to its enormous proportions.

2. The tea-table had been planted in the shade of one of the little summer-houses, and the rest of the party was already assembled about it when Denis and Priscilla made their appearance.

3. Passengers are not permitted to consume alcohol you have brought with you or purchased on board.

4. ‘Well,’ said Florence, ‘why don’t you borrow my costume and have a swim.’

5. And we’ve done better business the last two years than we’ve ever done before.

6. The first tree warden scheme in Wales was launched last week by the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park Authority.

7. ‘I hope you all realize,’ said Henry Wimbush during dinner, ‘that next Monday is Bank Holiday, and that you will be expected to help in the Fair.’

8. In my youth I was always striving – how hard! – to feel religiously and aesthetically.

9. You attack me after I’ve been dancing for two hours, while I’m still reeling drunk with the movement, when I’ve lost my head, when I’ve got no mind left but only a rhythmical body!

10. ‘I was only wondering,’ said Mary, ‘because there’s a very good train at 3.27, and it would be nice if you could catch it, wouldn’t be?’

(c)

1. It’s appalling. I’ve been telling her about the Malthusian League.

2. As the sun provides the Earth with enormous amounts of energy, it is important to call attention to ways of reducing dependence from Middle East countries.

3. ‘Is there going to be another war?’ asked the old lady to whom he had predicted this end.

4. If you have been assaulted, try to get to the nearest safe place, and call the police straight away.

5. It’s a good story. Correction. A great story. There’ll be a statement in the House of Commons tonight.

6. If you are going to be out late, try to arrange a lift home or book a taxi.

7. Because of the nature of Kenyon’s life, it was another ten hours before anyone began to wonder where he was, a further day before anyone tried to reach him, twenty-four hours more before the realisation that he was missing.

8. Even schoolchildren know that dinosaurs were done in 65 million years ago by a meteorite impact in what’s now the Gulf of Mexico.

9. ‘Here we are,’ he said, and taking out an electric torch out of his pocket, he cast a dim beam over two or three blackened sections of tree trunk…

10. The BBC is currently working on a digital storytelling project that would encourage kids to make their own documentaries online. ‘A lot of television has been made by public,’ Bennett says.

Exercise 65.

(a) Translate the following sentences into English and comment on the use of tenses.

1. Ось вони йдуть. Ми чекаємо на них зранку.

2. Ти впевнений, що завдання буде виконано до наступного понеділка? – Так. Я ще ніколи в житті не був таким впевненим у чомусь.

3. Поспішай. Поїзд прибуває о 14.25. Якщо ми не дістанемось до станції вчасно, ми не встигнемо на нього.

4. Вона розуміла, що то був перший раз, коли він набрався хоробрості, щоб поговорити з нею.

5. Ти все ще збираєшся розповісти їй всю правду? – Звісно. Я починаю усвідомлювати як вона почувається. Вчора я це обмірковував майже дві години, перш ніж прийняв рішення.

6. Ти зробив це, щоб змусити мене залишитись з тобою? Ти розбив моє серце і зруйнував моє життя!

7. Джуді не відвідує заняття вже три тижні. Що з нею трапилось? – Не знаю. Вчора вона зетелефонувала і сказала, що вже придбала квиток і від’їжджає до Бірмінгему наступного дня.

8. Ледве ми увійшли до кімнати, як задзвенів телефон.

9. Ви вже поклеїли шпалери у вітальні? Я прийду завтра о 10-й і допоможу вам. – До 10-ої ми вже працюватимемо дві години. Якщо хочеш допомогти, приходь о 8-й.

10. Том був здивований, що Мері не сказала Джонсонам, що вона повернулась в місто нарередодні і збирається від’їздити наступного тижня.

(b) Change into indirect speech observing the rules of the sequence of tenses. Comment on the changes.

1. ‘So what have you been doing all this time, Jerry?’ asked Ann.

2. Betty said to Jack, ‘Shall we go to the movies tonight?’

3. Benny said, ‘I bought a new watch yesterday because I had lost my old one.’

4. ‘How about some more tea?’ she said to Paul.

5. Dorothy asked, ‘What is being discussed now?’

6. ‘We met him in New Zealand two years ago,’ they said.

7. Emily said to Bob, ‘Why don’t you come and tell me everything?’

8. Moira said to Sue, ‘What a pity! You’re leaving tonight.’

9. The mother said to her son, ‘Buy a loaf of bread and a pound of beefsteak.’

10. Peter said, ‘Adam, don’t you like oranges?’

(c) Rewrite in indirect speech observing the rules of the sequence of tenses.

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