Грамматические упражнения

1. Герундий в функции подлежащего.

1. Travelling is a very pleasant thing.

2. Learning words is necessary for studying foreign languages.

3. Maintaining constant temperature and pressure during the test was absolute necessity.

4. Debugging a program is a hard job.

5. Programming is the process of preparing, testing and correcting instructions for a computer.

6. Adding and subtracting are reasonable operations.

7. Measuring distances to the planets and stars has a lot of difficulties.

8. Generating electricity on a large scale all over the country gives great possibilities for the rapid development of our industry and agriculture.

2. Герундий в функции части сказуемого.

1. Her task is looking after her children.

2. One of the effects of heat is turning a solid into liquid.

3. The task of the factory was producing corrosion-resistant polymers in far larger quantities.

4. Their aim is finding new ways of utilizing this new material on road building construction.

5. Mathematical operations are adding, subtracting and others.

6. One of the most important tasks after the 1917 revolution was building up power stations to supply the country with electricity.

3. Герундий в функции дополнения.

1. I don’t like walking slowly.

2. We are fond of playing computer games.

3. The experimentalist suggested purifying the solution by a new method.

4. Logical operations include comparing, selecting and others.

5. Supercomputers are used for calculating complex problems.

6. The researcher took great interest in our improving the properties of rubber-like substances

7. We know of silver and copper being very good conductors of electricity.

8. Nowadays the high-speed processors are used for processing information.

9. He did not complain of having been laughed at.

4. Герундий в функции обстоятельства.

1. By performing different kinds of operations on a computer people solve a lot of difficult problems.

2. In spite of having a headache, he spoke for an hour.

3. After talking to them we’ll decide.

4. After performing calculations a computer displays some result.

5. By subjecting air to very high pressure and cooling it is possible to transform it to the liquid state.

6. One cannot transform water into steam without heating it.

7. In converting water into ice we do not change its composition.

8. Think carefully before buying a computer.

5. Герундий в функции определения.

1. He did not like the idea of walking through that forest.

2. One of the benefits of buying a system is that it has detailed documentation with it.

3. The way of solving this problem is rather difficult.

4. The burning of fossil fuels is one of the sources of obtaining power but not the best one.

5. Scientists are doing their best to find more efficient ways of utilizing solar energy.

6. The idea of utilizing the energy of oceans and seas for man’s needs is not new.