II. Absolute Nominative Participle Construction

1. Read the text and find the sentences with Absolute Nominative Participle Construction:

My first visit to Moscow was short - three days, just enough time to undergo all kinds of inoculations: for smallpox, plague, cholera, typhoid fever. Dr. Rosoff, the Russian chief doctor, reported the situation to us at the first meeting. Outbreaks of typhoid, plague and cholera having occurred before, there were some individuals who remained carriers and transferred diseases from person to person.

We were a team of 28 physicians, who had left our own homes and came here to help, and we had the backing of the Commissariat of Health. Our first task was to set up an organization and order. Dr. Garron from Brussels was voted chief of bacteriology. We did not lose a second but hurried to one of the barracks and brought back specimens. After one look into his microscope he returned to the meeting, his hands waving in excitement.

“Messieurs, Mesdames! It’s plague!”

We organized our forces for ward work, a dietary department, isolation barracks, serology, pathology. At the same time out big Dutchman, Dr. Straussen, who had already lost 6 pounds in two days of unremitting work, organized a production of our own serum in cooperation with Dr. Garron. A new spirit of hope entered the clinic. The first portion of serum administered, the death toll began to fall.

2. Translate the sentences paying attention to the ANPC:

1. Scarlet fever is mostly a childhood disease, adults being affected rarely. 2. She has a severe form of mumps, her temperature being nearly 40°C. 3. An epidemic of grippe having occurred in the hospital, visitors were not admitted to the patients. 4. Mumps being an infectious disease, the sick children must be isolated as soon as possible. 5. Penicillin having been discovered, the death toll from many infectious diseases began to fall. 6. There being no carriers of smallpox in the world now, children are no longer vaccinated about it. 7. The flu being caused by different types of viruses, it is difficult to make a universal vaccine against it. 8. The professor made a round of wards, the students following him. 9. The patient felt bad, all analyses being normal. 10. The patient’s temperature taken, a nurse recorded it in their temperature charts.

3. Combine the sentences using the ANPC:

1. This is a teaching hospital. Students are trained here. 2. The child had a high temperature. A rash covered his body. 3. A patient had constipation. A nurse gave him a laxative. 4. A nurse gave an injection to a patient. He felt better. 5. The man complained of the pain in the heart. His ECG was normal. 6. The experiment was over. Its results were published.

4. Translate the sentences paying attention to the meaning of the underlying words:

1. The patient sitting at the window is the one I told you about. 2. The clinical picture of this patient is that of scarlet fever. 3. The professor thinks that the symptoms of this patient are those of chronic ulcer of the stomach. 4. One must know that one of the characteristic symptoms of children’s diseases is eruption. 5. The drug I am taking now is more effective than the one I was prescribed before. The wards in the new hospital are better equipped than those in our old one.

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