Exercise 3

Date: 2015-10-07; view: 462.

Analyse the forms of the verbs in bold type. Answer the following questions: 1) Which subjunctive mood forms are used in the two clauses of complex sentences with adverbial clauses of unreal condition? 2) Which combinations of perfect and non-perfect forms can be found in the two clauses?

1. You don't know everything about me. I think that if you did,even you would turnfrom me (Wilde).

2. If you had comein yesterday at a particular moment… you would have foundme in tears (Wilde).

3. I … have seen twenty-three of his plays publicly acted. But if I had not readthem as well, my impression of them would benot merely incomplete, but violently distorted and falsified (Shaw).

4. If a dramatic author were to publish a pantomime, he could only make it intelligible to a reader by giving him the words, which the pantomimist is supposed to be uttering (Shaw).

5. If it shouldunfortunately happen, Mr. Cokane, that this leads to nothing but a disappointment for Blanche, probably she would rathernot seeyou afterwards. But if all turns out as we hope, Dr. Trench's best friends willthen beour best friends (Shaw).

6. Sartorius: … in case difficulties ariseand the match - you see I call it a match – be broken off,I shouldnot wishBlanche to think that she had allowed a gentleman to-to- [Trench nods sympathetically] (Shaw).

7. It's always been difficult. We've no hospital, let alone an isolation ward. If you should runinto anything very nasty ring upGriffiths at Toniglan. … He's the District Medical Officer (Cronin).

8. Presently he began again in his soft, murmuring purr “just the voice a jaguar would talkin if it could speakand were in a good humour”, Gemma said to herself with rising irritation (Voynich).

9. “There she goes”, he said, “there she goes, with two pounds'worth of food on board that belongs to me, and that I haven't had”. He said that if they had givenhim another day he thought he could have putit straight (Jerome).

10. Still Beatrice had taken the trouble to go up to London and to buy the books for me. She wouldnot have donethat if she disliked me (Maurier).

11. I will do all I can to avoid having to use your evidence. But if there should beno other way, I will seethat you have police protection from the moment that the subpoena is served on you (Sayers).

12. With regard to the sums of money mentioned by Monsieur Parker, if monsieur would givehim the number of some of the notes, efforts would be madeto trace them (Sayers).[16]