Ex. 5. Translate the following sentences paying attention to the constructions in bold type. Make up your own sentences with these constructions.

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Ex. 4. Make up short dialogues with the following statements using modal verbs.

1. I didn't know that the conference would take place soon.

2. You should try to understand your teacher.

3. You had to work hard because of your mistakes in the dictations.

4. Shall I ring you up to-night?

5. What sort of place do you think we ought to go to for our vacation?

6. Would you mind explaining, please.

7. I should never have gone to see the play.

8. I think we ought to go to the dean's office to talk about his absence.

9. Our English lesson is to begin at 5.

10. There have to be a reason for it.

11. You needn't follow my advice, if you don't like it.

12. I'm sorry, Ann. I ought to have consulted you.

13. I dare say Alice is not a good friend.

14. You'll have to explain the meaning of this word again.

15. We are to have a busy day.

1. I cannot but think that he was a better master to follow English novelists.

2. He's already passed all the exams. You needn't worry about him.

3. You mustn't worry too much about what I've just told you.

4. How dare you speak to your teacher like that!

5. I must tell you it doesn't agree with another statement that has been made.

6. I was only to learn English later.

7. I should say we all appreciate Agatha Christie and her detective stories.

8. I couldn't help reading prose drama to which I had given so much of my life.

9. Happiness is to be found in hard work.

10. You must let me know if this professor is coming to give a lecture in the history of foreign literature.

11. You may be right, I may be wrong. Let it be.

12. What I have to say to you is to advise you to become a good philologist.

13. I wouldn't have to do any more with my French exam, it is too difficult for me.

14. You can't possibly ask me to join your literary circle. I am not fond of literature.

15. I am to go to London to know English better.

16. Why should I make two reports for this scientific conference?

17. I must admit that the author depicts in the characters with their own individualities.

18. I concentrated on my task of learning the phrases I was to know.

19. Do you think something ought to be done about the question of improving your language?

20. Nothing can possibly go wrong if we compare prose and poetry of that time.