Exercise Rewrite and translate the sentences into Russian paying attention to the Absolute Participle Constructions

1. The temperature of a conductor being raised, the motion of the electrons in the conductor increased.

2. Transistors are very sensitive to light, some of them reacting even to start-light.

3. The first man-made satellite having been sent up, it became possible to investigate various types of radiation.

4. A lot of attempts having been made, the scientist came to a successful solution of the problem.

5. The resistance being very large, the current of the circuit was small.

6. The experiments being demonstrated, all the students watched them with great attention.

7. There are two diagrams in this figure, one of them showing the relation between volume and temperature.

8. The workers increased the output of measuring instruments, new devices having been applied in all the shops of the plant.

9. Part of the energy being changed into heat, not all the chemical energy of the battery is transformed into electric energy.

10. The experiment having been carried out, the students left the lab.

Exercise Study the table and translate the following sentences paying attention to the

Gerund

1. Thank you for coming. 2. The book is worth reading. 3. It’s no use talking about it. 4. It isn’t worth while going there. 5. The student’s knowing German well helped him considerably in learning English. 6. He went away without leaving his address. 7. Her greatest pleasure was travelling. 8. The last document in his handwriting, a letter to a friend, dates June 1712. 9. Newcomen completed his own steam-engine after years of experimenting. 10. Savery had used the method of creating a partial vacuum in the cylinder. 11. On graduating from the University S.P. Korolev began working in the field of rocket design. 12. An operator is responsible for starting and stopping the generators depending on need. 13. Parsons had the idea of reducing the steam pressure and speed, without reducing efficiency and economy. 14. These devices have the advantage of being cheap. 15. Apart from creating highly economical combined engines and heat-insulating materials, designers have to make such an amount of thermodynamic computations that can’t be performed without using supercomputers. 16. Heinrich Zoelly had patented the idea of using the heat pump to draw heat from the ground in 1912. 17. A new device for monitoring and adjusting air pressure in tires has recently been developed.

Exercise Translate the following sentences paying attention to the Gerundial Construction

1. We insisted on the experiment being repeated.

2. We know of Rutherford’s having investigated the nature of alpha-particles.

3. On the lecturer’s appearing in the hall, there was loud applause.

4.Your having worked at the plant helped you to master technical subjects.

5. They insisted on the goods being shipped at once.

6. We were told about their having studied a number of problems connected with the development of computing machinery.

7. Mankind is interested in atomic energy being used only for peaceful purposes.

8. Kurchatov’s having devoted all his life to nuclear physics is known to everybody.

9. We know of the Curies’ having discovered some new radioactive elements.

10. There was no hope of their solving this complex engineering problem.