Grammar revision exercises

Date: 2015-10-07; view: 381.

I. Read and translate the sentences paying attention to the Objective Infinitive Construction:

1. Today we know robots to be used in manufacturing operations.

2. Material-transfer operations require the robot to move materials or work parts from one location to another.

3. The engineer expected the robot to have been equipped with the gipper designed for the particular part geometry.

4. We saw each robot in the cell identify the product style as it arrived.

5. Robotics enables the work to be accomplished much more easily and successfully by automated assembly methods.

6. Complex factory operations cause the utilization of robots to be growing in manufacture.

7. A number of manufacturing operations allow robots to be used on two or three shifts.

8. We believe all industrial robotic applications to contribute to the technological progress of modern society.

II. Read and translate the sentences paying attention to the Subjective Infinitive Construction:

1. Industrial robots are known to be of four categories.

2. Robots are required to pick up parts from one conveyer and to place them on another.

3. The robot is expected to have been equipped with a special gripper for grasping the parts.

4. Spot welding is considered to be the most common application of industrial robots.

5. The use of robots in assembly is supposed to increase because of the high cost of manual labour.

6. The robot happens to have been reprogrammed for another manufacturing operation.

7. The design of the product is certain to be an important aspect of robotic assembly.

8. In future robots are likely to substitute for human labour in all hazardous and uncomfortable industrial operations.