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Ex. 7. Define the types of subordinate clauses. Translate into Russian.


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1. A pleasant place to place a plaice is a place where a plaice is pleased to be placed.

2. I'm sorry if she's annoyed.

3. Now it turns out his company can can him virtually the minute the poor bastard wanders from the straight and narrow.

4. Who pulleth out this sword of this stone and anvil is rightwise king born of all England.

5. Stop doing what you have been doing.

6. If you will just sign here please, I'll give you the money.

7. Turn everything you hear to your own advantage.

8. Now we were going through a country full of fine enduring trees where it was always five a clock in the afternoon.

9. Do you know if she's coming?

10. Since many minor revisions were still required, the second draft of the document had to be approved by the committee, contact with the individual members of which was made by the phone or letter, because the committee had by then been dissolved as a standing committee by the Board.

11. Live as you will have wished to have lived when you are dying.

12. It's what a fish feels for the fish it's eating.

13. Janet had taken to reading the newspapers as if this smudgy peek into other lives might show her the way out of her own.

14. I hope that's the last we ever see of them.

15. That doesn't mean the world isn't wonderful.

16. She can't help what she dreams.

17. Whichever day you come, we'll be pleased to see you.

18. She'll probably be on the same plane as I will be tomorrow.

19. The longest I can stay is three hours.

20. I think we're pretty much alike, no matter what we think we believe.

21. I seem to be the only person I know who has any sense of humour.

22. Do not let what you cannot do tear from your hands what you can. (Ashanti proverb)

23. A man can do more than he can.

24. If universities must admit all students who apply for admission, they will admit many students who are not capable of pursuing studies at university level, which will force them to withdraw when they find that they cannot cope with the work, which will be a waste of government money.

25. Most of us are just as happy as we make up our minds to be.

26. I don't see what relationship of this is with that.

27. After that happened, what was bad became worse.

28. If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right.

29. Is that what you're trying to tell me?

30. The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wise people so full of doubts. (B.Russel)

31. It beats me how he could have done it.

32. Mr Brown-Brown never eats while reading, albeit he reads while eating.

33. Cats know exactly how we, people, feel. They don't give a damn, but they know.

34. This seems to leave us where we were.

35. Now, as ever, I wish not to misrepresent Judge Douglas's position, question his motives, or do aught that can be personally offensive to him. (A.Lincoln)

36. He breathes best who breathes last.

37. I never smelled a smelt that smelled as bad as that smelt smelled.

38. You can go out as long as you promise to be back before 11 o'clock.

39. Time is fun when you're having fleas. (Kermit the Frog)

40. I've been waiting for you passionately and impatiently as if you were a tram.

41. All Helen does Helen does well.

42. That's the way things are.

43. The house where I live is yellow.

44. I know all, what I don't is not worth knowing.

45. Never try to outsmart a woman unless you are another woman.

46. Never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise that what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise.

47. The students did very well in their exams considering how little they had studied.

48. I recognized the president the moment he entered.

49. She was so glad to see me go away, that I have almost a mind to come again, that she may again have the same pleasure.

50. Love is something one has to make.

51. There was never yet a fair woman but she made mouths in a glass. (Shakespeare)

52. If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry. (Chekhov)

53. No one can more easily deceive others than someone who is reputed never to deceive.

54. A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands.

55. The worst of marriage is that it makes a woman believe that all other men are just as easy to fool.

56. Since all the girls are good and lovable, from whence come the bad wives?

57. I met a man in the Strand one day that I knew very well, as I thought, though I had not seen him for years.

58. Zeugmas and the rest of the stylistic bestiary are of significance only insofar as they help us learn better.

59. The doctor wore such an expression on his face as left no doubt of his decision.

60. Is there any reason why she did it?

61. She doesn't know why she does what she does.

62. Tell me immediately you have any news.

63. It isn't as if she had no money.

64. -- Doctor, I feel as if nobody ever listens to me. – Next please.

 


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