| !!! Discussion:If you had the time and money to invent something new, what product would you develop? Use specific details to explain why this product is needed. (Write down in Russian sentences from your monologue, which contain S2: 1) free use (advice, preference, wish), 2) object clauses, 3) attributive clauses, 4) predicative clauses and clauses of comparison. Get ready to present them for somebody to translate).
Additional exercises:
- Natanson: pp. 52-56; Ex. 13 (53), 14 (54), 16 (55), 18(56)
Predicative Clauses
Subjunctive II is used in predicative clauses after the link verbs of "being" and "seeming": to be, to feel, to look, to sound, to seem etc.). The conjunctions "as if" and "as though" are used to connect the principal and the predicative clause.
Ex. It seemed as though the silence of the night were getting on her nerves.
You look as if you had not slept at all.
Ex.1 Read the sentences and analyse the form of Subjunctive II in predicative clauses:
1. I feel as if I were almost satisfied with heat. 2. It isn't as though she had ever thought about money. 3. Do I look as if I were about to die? 4. It doesn't sound as though it were much fun. 5. I feel as though I'd never been away. 6. She sounded as though she were threatening him. 7. He looks as though he had an awful temper, doesn't he?
Ex.2 Use the necessary form of Subjunctive II instead of the Infinitive in brackets:
1. He awakened feeling as though everything and everyone (to move) out of his flat and he (to be) alone. 2. Although we never meet, it seems as if you (to be) our dearest friends. 3. "I feel at home here," he said," as if I (to come) home where I was born." 4. It was as though the house (to be left) empty but a minute before and yet that minute was fraught with eternity. 5. It was as though there (to be) an amplifier concealed somewhere within him and his speech came from some distant studio. 6. You know, I felt as if I (to be) the first man to discover things.
Ex.3 Finish the sentences using the appropriate form of Subjunctive II:
1. Leaning a little to one side, holding on with all his strength, he looked as if (he, to be about to lose one's balance). 2. Indeed, it seemed as though (Alvin, cannot, find any words, to break the silence). 3. Oh, that sounds as if (they, to work too much, too hard). 4. It wasn't as though (he, to have anyone but her to go to). 5. Bateman felt as though (someone, to give him, a violent blow).
Ex.4 Refer the following sentences to the past, making all necessary changes:
1. It looks as though she were pleased. 2. It sounds as though it were much fun. 3. He looks as though he were disappointed. 4. He looks as though he could scale mountains. 5. It appears as if she were surprised by your story.
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