A. For Study

The Compound Sentences

/Сложносочиненные предложения/

Этот тип сложного предложения может включать в свой состав два или несколько самостоятельных предложений, соединяющихся друг с другом сочинительными союзами and, but, or и др. Нередко можно встретить бессоюзное соединение предложений (clauses) в сложносочиненном предложении.

Примеры:

Geography begins and ends with maps, and the Siberian geographers did not depart from this tradition.

Commodities thus must meet certain needs or be useful in some way or other, or no one would buy them.

They will go to the Caucasus next summer, but I’ll stay at home.

They will go to the Caucasus next summer; I’ll stay at home.

1. Grammar Exercises

I. Read the sentences; state the compound and complex sentences. Translate them.

1. Everybody knows the mountains (горы) and lakes (озера) in Wales, but not many people know about this interesting old slate (сланец) mine in North Wales.

2. The old slate mine has 67 kilometres of tunnels, and you can travel through them in a special train.

3. There is a museum where you can see all the old mining machinery.

4. In the old miner’s cottages you can see how people lived more than 100 years ago.