3 Part One. The Predicate

Lesson 14

GRAMATIKA: Оборот «именительный падеж с инфинитивом».

Section I

Ex. 1. Practise your pronunciation.

Ex. 2. Pay attention to the structure of the following words; translate them into Uzbek:

a) unusual, unable, unstable, unjust, unnecessary, unsuccessful, unemployed, unlimited, uncuttablc

b) inorganic, indirccl, insoluble, independent, incorrect, incapable, indefinite, indifferent, inseparable, indivisibility

c) impossible, imperfect, improbable, improper, immaterial, imper­sonal, immeasurable, impractical

Ex. 3. Define the meanings оf the word because in the following sentences:

1. Mendeleyev’s mother could not place Dmitry in the University of Moscow because he had been bom in Siberia. 2. The government retired Mendeleyev from the University of St. Petersburg because of his social activity. 3. Mendeleyev could not present his paper on the periodic table at the meeting of the Russian chemical socicty himself because he was ill.4. Elements in the same group of the periodic table are sometimes called congeners because they possess similar properties. 5. Electrolysis of water is not widely used to obtain ozone because of its low efficiency. 6. Because of the difference in the vapour pressure of ozone and oxygen it is possible to separate them. 7. Lavoisier named the gas “hydrogen” (water-former) because of its ability to form water in combination with oxygen. 8. Selenium received almost no attention in textbooks because it was not commercially used.

Ex. 4. Find the predicate and the subject in the following sentences:

1. The solid matter was believed to be really continuous matter. 2. It was more logical to believe that all the varieties of matter are brought about by coupling together a relatively few kinds of particles. 3. This purely philosophical guess turned to be confirmed later. 4. Atoms are made of fundamental particles, they are called building blocks of all matter.5. Ancient Greeks were right in the ultimate sense o f the argument.

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