XXI. Make the following conditional clauses into proverbs by completing them. Consult the reference list below.

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Exercise XX. Express the idea of the following by using suitable proverbs and sayings with the Future Indefinite Tense form of the verb predicate. Consult the reference list below.

Exercise XIX. Pay attention to the use of the Future Indefinite Tense in the following proverbs and sayings. Give their Russian/Ukrainian equivalents.

1. Take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves. 2. You scratch my back and I'll scratch yours. 3. Don't make yourself a mouth or the cat will eat you. 4. Do as most men do, then most men will speak well of you. 5. (He) who keeps company with the wolf will learn to howl. 6. A straw will show which way the wind blows. 7. He who chatters to you will chatter of you. 8. He will never set the Thames on fire. 9. Nature will have its course. 10. An old dog will learn no new tricks.

1. A person in extreme difficulties will try every possible means to escape, even though he knows it is unlikely to be successful. 2. You help me or do something in my favour and I'll help you in return. 3. Small events can be a guide to momentous happenings. 4. If you mix with evil companions you will soon be as wicked as they are. 5. Concentrate on saving small amounts and in time you will have a large amount. 6. We inherit certain characteristics from our ancestors, and those same characteristics will be inherited from us by our descendants. 7. If you grant some people a small favour, it only encourages them to take more than they are offered. 8. Whoever tells you tales about other people will tell other people tales about you. 9. When a man without money grows suddenly rich, he is liable to become the most arrogant of mortals. 10. If you give a bad person enough opportunities he will bring about his own downfall. 11. If one yields partly to a person's demands or desires, he will take advantage of this by making even greater demands.

(give a thief enough rope and he'll hang himself; take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves; a drowning man will clutch at a straw; give knaves an inch and they will take a yard; you scratch my back and I'll scratch yours; set a beggar on horseback and he'll ride to the devil; what is bred in the bone will never come out of the flesh; who keeps company with the wolf will learn to howl; a straw will show which way the wind blows: who chatters to you will chatter of you; give him an inch and he will take a mile)

1. If the sky falls ... 2. If you sing before breakfast ... (If you laugh before breakfast ...) 3. If you run after two hares ... 4. If a man deceives me once ... , if he deceives me twice ... 5. If one sheep leaps over the ditch ... 6. If the blind leads the blind ... 7. If you cannot bite ... 8. If you swear ... 9. If the cap fits ...

(you will catch no fish, never show you teeth, all the rest will follow, we shall catch larks, you will cry before supper, shame on him, shame on me, both shall fall into the ditch, wear it, you will catch neither)