Not knowing the exact address, they got lost in the city

2.Never sign anythingwithout reading it carefully.

3.The door was wide open, and we enteredwithout knocking.

4.The clerk was firedwithout being given any explanation.

5.The teenagers listened to the pop-singerwithout con­cealing their admiration.

6.The snow has been falling for many days,without seem­ing to stop.

7.Susan accepted Tom's proposalwithout thinking of the consequences.

Not knowing a word of Dutch, she was taken to the police station.

9.He left the restaurantwithout waiting for his wife to join him.

10.The brother and the sister couldn't stand each other's companywithout immediately losing their temper.

Not having recognized me, Linda passed by without answering my "Hello".

12.The travellers went on and on,without paying attention to the bitter cold.

13- Not knowing the reason for their silence, Robert went on talking non-stop.

14.Tom has never done a thing,without consulting his father.

Not wanting to quarrel with his mother, he dropped the subject.

Exercise 35, p. 386

1. All the past participles are parts of objective participial con­structions with participle II.

.Майкл проколол себе ухо. Он сделал это, чтобы доса­дить родителям.

2.В пятницу моя машина будет проходить осмотр и те­кущий ремонт.

3.На ремонт вашего телефона может уйти несколько дней или даже недель.

4.Три недели назад мы подали заявку на установку теле­фона в офисе. Все еще ждем.

5..Проверьте, пожалуйста, покрышки. И заправьте бак.

6..Каким образом ты умудрился так дешево отремонти­ровать машину?

7.Полицейский сделал в его правах отметку об опасном вождении.

8.Смотри не прищеми пальцы дверью.

II.

1. Where do you have your dresses made? - I make them myself.

2. How often do you have your hair cut? - It depends on the season.

3.Why did you let yourself get involved/mixed up/entangled in this dangerous undertaking/scheme/venture?

4.The suit is magnificent/gorgeous, but I'd like to have the skirt shortened.

5.We haven't had our house redecorated/renovated for five years.

6.I'd like the contract (to be) signed today.

7.You lack knowledge and experience and that makes itself felt.

8.They want to have their child baptized.

9.1 won't have anything changed in my room.

10.In the hotel you can have your clothes cleaned, tickets booked and letters sent.

11.She had her purse stolen while she was buying fruit.

12.Anne needs a passport photograph taken.

13.My children have their teeth examined every six months.

14.Have your hair cut at last! You (are) look(ing) a mess!

15.When I was in Rome I had my umbrella stolen.

16.We are doing our best to have our central heating equip­ment repaired before the weather gets cold.

17.1 like to have my flat/room papered anew every five years.

18. You should really have this cut examined: I think it looks infected.

Exercise 36, p. 387

1, 2. We cannot use very with comparatives. Instead we use (very) much,far, a lot and lots (the latter, two are informal).

3.Dead meaning completely can be used with the positive degree of adjectives. Dead is more emotional than completely.

4.No here means not any. One might just as well say. You are not any better than all those people.

5.In formal speech and writing most used without the defi­nite article before an adjective has the same meaning as very.

6.Pretty before an adjective in the positive degree is a collo­quial synonym of fairly.

7. 15. Comparatives with the ... the are used to say that two things change together one depending on the other. A short form of this structure (7) is used in sentences ending with the better (7) and in the expression. The more the merrier (В тесно­те, да не в обиде).

8. See 3.

9,10,11, 13. See 5.

12 .As ... as with positive degrees of adjectives is used to say that two people or things are equal in some way.

14. Imaginable is used after a superlative to emphasize that something is the best, worst, smartest etc. that can be imagined. It comes after the adjective in the superlative degree and the noun it modifies.

Exercise 37, pp. 387-388

I. Possible variants

1. The more exercise you take, the fitter you'll become.

2. The bigger the car, the more gas/petrol it guzzles.

3. The more I get to know him, the less I like him.

4. The more chocolate she ate, the more zits she had.

5. The farther from home, the lonelier you feel.

6. The more children there are, the noisier it is.

7. The sooner you realize, it the better.

8. The more frightening the film, the more horror film fans/lovers like it.

9- The younger the child, the easier it is for him to learn a for­eign language.

10. The less time you waste, the better.

11. The more sophisticated a girl is, the less likely she is to fall for a dumbhead, good-looking as he may be/for all his good looks.

12. The more I know people, the more I like animals.

13. The hotter the weather, the less I like it here.

14. The colder the winter, the more homeless people freeze to death.

15. The harder she works, the more she earns.

16. The longer you sleep, the quicker you'll recover/ get well.

17. The more you learn, the more pessimistic you become for the Bible/Ecclesiastes says, "Who increases knowledge increases sorrow."

18. The less money people get the less likely their children are to go to college/the less chance their children have to go to college.

19. The more difficult the case is, the more of a challenge it is

20. The busier the boss is the less chance we have to have an extra coffee break.

II.

1.The storm started out of the blue.

2.The refusal touched her to the quick.

3.All the summer the kids stayed in the open.

4.On the whole she is not a bad person.

5.In the present situation there is a change for the better.

6.In short the story has a happy end.

7.Paul Macey left his job all of a sudden.

8.He did his best to get the better of everything.

9.Don't worry it's all for the better.

10. Are you confused? - Not in the least.

Exercise 38, p. 388

1,2. Verbs.

3. Adjectives.

4.Adjective.