Exercise 1

Date: 2015-10-07; view: 465.

Complex Sentences with Adverbial Clauses of Cause

Write out the conjunctions used to join the adverbial clauses of cause and translate sentences 6-11 into Russian.

1. “Oh! I dare say she is crying because she could not go out with Missis in the carriage,” interposed Bessie (Bronte).[6]

2. Write that you decline to support this scheme of hers as you hold it to be a dishonest scheme (Wilde).

3. I think he saw the effect he had produced on me for some days afterwards he wrote and asked me to come and see him (Wilde).[7]

4. We took our umbrellas, because we were afraid it would rain; for the barometer had been falling for some time (Sweet).

5. Mrs. Popply, since you express your regret I suppose there is nothing more to be said (Shaw).

6. “But I won't allow that seeing that it would never suit my case” (Bronte).

7. … some of old Forsyte's pictures are going to be lent. Considering he died saving them, they owe it to him (Galsworthy).

8. He is suspicious and jealous for fear anyone else might want to share in his power (Lawrence).

9. He took in Irene on the ground that he hadn't entertained her since she was a bride (Galsworthy).

10. On this occasion the preparations were of a more elaborate nature than usual, owing to the fact that for the past four days Mr. Samuel Graffiths, the husband and father, had been absent (Dreiser).

11. Don't say “I arrived in Chicago…” Note “arrive at” is correct, for the reason that the city is regarded for the time being, as a mere point (Bake).