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3. The maid said something about the American lady’s
having come back to Rodnick (fiction writing).
4. It was easy to imagine Cave sitting silent (fiction
writing).
5. She was interrupted by her father’s voice and by her
father’s hat being heavily flung from his hand and striking her face
(fiction writing).
6. He brought in a portmanteau with him, which he doubted
its being worth while to unpack (fiction writing).
7. Besides, there’s no danger of it happening again (fiction
writing).
8.”It’s no good you staying,” Jack Burton said (fiction
writing).
9. Jack laughed. Their being bothered amused him (fiction
writing).
10. He felt almost gloomy satisfaction at the thought of all these
disasters happening at once (fiction writing).

VI. Point out the gerund, the participle, and the
Predicative Constructions. Render these sentences into
Ukrainian. Analyze the ways of rendering English non-finite
forms of the verb into Ukrainian.
1. She thought of her father sitting on the veranda…., palm-
leaf in his hand, watching the Negro mow alone (fiction writing).
2. Seeing me he stood irresolute, his eyes dark and
mournful (fiction writing).
3. The idea of anybody wasting his time was obnoxious to
him (fiction writing).
4. She listened to the tapping for a while before she finally
got up, grumbling for being disturbed when she felt so
uncomfortable in bed (fiction writing).
5. You must go and lie down. It’s no good making yourself
ill (fiction writing).

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