I. Translate the sentences. Pay attention to participles and the Absolute
Participle Construction.
a) They went quickly out of the house, Tom accompanying to the station.
b) There being no chance of escape, the thief was arrested on the spot.
c) She sat staring into the fire, the sock forgotten on her knee.
II. Translate sentences. Pay attention to the Infinitive Constructions.
1. Do you want me to read this text?
2. I want him to do this work.
3. She is said to borrow money but not bother to return it.
4. You are expected to be an obedient and smart boy.
III. Open brackets, pay attention to the Sequence of Tenses.
1. The porter says, that he (will bring, be brought) your luggage to your room.
2. My father wrote me, that he (buy, had bought) a new car.
IV. Use correct form of the verb in brackets according to the condition.
If you get a "five", your mother (to be) happy.
If she (to return) earlier, she would have been able to see him before he left.
If these shoes were not too big for me, I (to buy) them.