Exercise 44. State the form of the verb. Translate the sentences into Russian.

1. "I wish," I said savagely, "I wish I were a woman of about thirty-six dressed in black satin with a string of pearls." "You would not be in this car with me if you were," he said, "and stop biting those nails, they are ugly enough already." (D.M.) 2. "He has a lot of money," Scarlett was thinking swiftly. "And if I married him right away, it would show Ashley that I didn't care a rap. And it would just kill Honey. And it would hurt Melanie, because she loves Charles so much." He was as good as anyone else and she didn't care. No, she could never care about anything again, not if she lived to be ninety. (M.M.) 3. He tried to weave away but the captain's fist caught him high on the cheekbone. His legs were weightless and he would have fallen if the two policemen had not held him up. But he was still conscious. (M.P.) 4. On my way home from my studio, I decided to call in at my parents' cottage. How I wish I had been meeting a friend or working late instead because, had I not caught her at a vulnerable moment, I don't think my mother would ever have told me the truth about my real father. I would have been able to get on with my life in ignorant bliss. (S.Times) 5. "People come there and picnic. I wish they didn't!" "So you don't think a stranger would be noticed?" "Not unless he looked – well, off his head." (A.Chr.) 6. "The poisoner had poisoned the cutlery. If, for example, the fork had been coated with a colourless odourless poison which dried, Euphemia would have been fooled. The cat, flung bits of food by hand – for no one feeds an animal with cutlery – would live; Euphemia eating the food with the poisoned cutlery, would die. Psychologically, too, it rings true." (E.Q.) 7. "If I had a child, Max," Rebecca said, "neither you, nor anyone in the world, would ever prove that it was not yours. It would grow here, bearing your name." (D.M.) 8. Had Hoffmann been watching, he would have been forced to give Miller full marks for cheek. Leaving the office he dropped in to see Max Dorn, the magazine's legal affairs correspondent. "I've just been up to see Herr Hoffmann. Now I need some background. Mindif I pick your brains?" "Go ahead," said Dorn, assuming Miller had been commissioned to do a story for Komet. (F.F.)

Exercise 45. Paraphrase the following into simple sentences with an adverbial modifier of condition introduced by but for (5.4.3.2.), and then into complex sentences with subordinate clauses of unreal condition, e.g.

That's his fault, too. Otherwise it would never have happened. à But for him it would never have happened. à If it hadn't been for him, it would never have happened. (W.G.)

1. That's Dr Salt's fault. Otherwise Alan would never have set eyes on this blasted Jill. 2. I helped Derek – I have some money that came to me from my mother – or else he would have been wondering how to pay for a few double Scotches. 3. You saved me, or I would not be alive now. 4. You always help me, that's why I am no longer homeless. 5. Think of the expense involved! Otherwise I'd go there by air. 6. The letters knock the theory on the head. Or else you might put that theory forward. 7. Salt did all this, you owe it all to him. Otherwise none of this would have happened. 8. I feel I owe you something. That's a fact. I wouldn't have come here at all otherwise. 9. Their second floor back has been let for over a year to a man called Cust. Sort of creature who wouldn't hurt a fly. And I'd never have dreamed of anything being wrong but there was something rather odd about it. 10. The fact is that his father has influence, or he would never have got the job. 11. It's a pity you were lazy. Or you would have finished the work by now. 12. "It's a pity there is the problem of your testimony. Otherwise I would be more hopeful," Sandy said. 13. It would hardly seem justified in a survey like the present one to dwell on a method as abstract as Patterson's, but this method has now assumed supreme importance in the analysis of macromolecular structures. 14. He would have ended up in a pork pie, but human kindness saved him. 15. There was so much rain, or else we should have had a good harvest.

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