Англиискии для вас Новый курс XXI века

Exercise 7. Read and translate these sentences. Pay attention to the difference between gerunds and verbal nouns.

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   She was watching the comings and goings in the house 2. There is no telling when they will manage to get there. 3. “I do not mind the children play­ing in the garden." he said. 4. Jane told us of his various comings and goings. 5. “I love bathing. Is the bathing safe here?" she asked Jane. 6. Do you remember my asking you to lend me a dictionary? 7. It seemed that the stopping of the clocks had stopped time in that house. 8. “The reading of today’s paper will take you quite a time. There’s a lot of interesting material in it,” said Ann. 9. Reading papers took him a lot of time every day. 10. His ideas are well worth listening to. 11. He liked neither reading aloud¹²² nor being read to. 12. The child was tired of running quickly all the way.
   
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    Learn these speech patterns
    

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   He is not the first scientist to disappear. Это не первый случай исчезнове­ния ученого.
   

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    Не was the first to call on them after they had returned. Он первым навестил их после того, как они вернулись.
    
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    She was the last to come to his birthday party. Она пришла последней на ве­чер по случаю его дня рождения.
    
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