Упражнение

Переведите следующие предложения, обращая внимание на гла­голы may, might, could и ought:

1. In general solids may be good conductors or poor.

2. Of course the ancients did not know why amber could
attract the light objects.

3. This substance might be an insulator or a conductor.

4. Let us picture what ought to happen provided there
were a conducting wire between two points of unequal
potential.

5. From the reservoir the water was directed through a
channel to some point where it could fall through steel pipes.

6. In order that the compound might be used it had to
be purified.

7. However that might be, the repair was ordered to be
exec u ted.

8. Important as this question may be in itself, the debate
on the subject went far beyond its original bounds.

Общее повторение сослагательного наклонения,

Условных предложений и глаголов should, would,