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1. “… but damn it all, I insist on your being educated like a gentleman.”
(Galthworthy)
2. Dartie on being told it was pleased enough. (Maugham)
3. “But he has no right to come without being invited.”, said Tom. (Fitzgerald)
4. I’m very fond of being looked at. (Wilde)
5. He had met the woman at last – the woman that he thought little about, not being
given to thinking about women…
6. Several times he barely escaped being caught by her brothers. (London)
7. Versh remembered laughing aloud, and the laugh being carried by the wind away
from me. (Saroyan)
8. He didn’t like the idea of being haunted by her. (Dickens)

11. State the function of the gerundial complex in each sentence first and then
translate the sentences into Ukrainian.
1 Tell me about this horrible business of my father wanting to set aside for another
son. (B.Show)
2 I dread him coming into the room. (J. Osborne)
3 … there is no use in my getting excited over it.
4 “Hope, you don’t mind my coming.” (London)
5 Doris was awakened by the sound of her husband’s splashing in the bathhouse.
6 “Perhaps you wouldn’t mind her coming in?”
7 “You don’t mind my asking though, do you?”

Assignment 7
Summary techniques
Stage I
1. Suggest the Ukrainian for the following phrases from Lecture7:
summary techniques
to grasp the meaning
phrases defying paraphrasing
literal renderings
original composition
to enforce the vocabulary widening
to fall back upon familiar words
to call in words from one’s reading vocabulary
a condensed reproduction
a balanced coverage of the original
to skim a text noting the subheadings
to read highlighting important information
to infer and make explicit
an antecedent action
uncertainty and irresolution
confusion and ambiguity

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