2.4. Раскройте скобки, употребляя герундий в активной или пассивной форме.

1. Why do you avoid (to speak) to me?

2. She tried to avoid (to speak) to.

3. The doctor insisted on (to send) the sick man to hospital.

4. The child insisted on (to send) home at once.

5. Do you mind him (to examine) by a heart specialist?

6. He showed • no sign of (to recognize) me.

7. She showed no sign of (to surprise).

8. He had a strange habit of (to interfere) in other people's business.

9. I was angry at (to interrupt) every other moment.

10. He was always ready for (to help) people.

11. He was very glad of (to help) in his difficulty.

12. In(to make) this experiment they came across some very interesting phenomena.

13. The results of the experiment must be checked and re-checked before (to publish). The watch requires (to repair).

14. The problem is not worth (to discuss).

15. Jane Eyre remembered (to lock) up in the red room for (to contradict) Mrs. Reed.

2.5. Переведите на русский язык, обращая внимание на существительные и местоимения перед герундием.

Пример 1: I don't mind opening the window. – Я не против (не возражаю), чтобы открыли окно. I don't mind his opening the window. – Я не против, чтобы он открыл окно.

Пример 2: She insisted on being allowed to go home. – Она наставила на том, чтобы ей позволили пойти домой. She insisted on her son being allowed to go home. – Она настаивала на том, чтобы ее сыну позволили пойти домой.

1. I had no idea of his leaving St. Petersburg so soon.

2. Aunt's coming here gives me much pleasure.

3. The librarian did not object to the reader keeping the book one day longer.

4. She said that she knew nothing about the door having been left open.

5. The mother was surprised at her daughter having tidied up the room so quickly.

6. My trying to convince him is of no use.

7. When asked why she had missed the train, she said something about her watch being slow.

8. She approached without my seeing her.

9. She stayed in town the whole summer because of her daughter being ill.

10. She did not object to doing the room. She did not object to my doing the room.

2.6. Переведите, обращая внимание на употребление герундия.

1. Log on to the domain by using the ComputerNameUser account.

2. You also help secure your network from accidental or malicious damage by limiting the membership of administrator groups.

3. By grouping collections of settings into separate GPOs, you can specify different configurations for each GPO.

4. Group Policy Management integrates editing functionality by providing direct access to Group Policy Object Editor.

5. You can provide feedback about Cisco technical documentation on the Cisco Technical Support & Documentation site by entering your comments in the feedback form available in every online document.

6. By utilising high speed broadband, calls between VoIPOffice extensions are free of charge.

7. Depending on the characteristics of the individual site, many additional template customizations – beyond those outlined above – will probably be necessary.

8. Creating individual page templates for each standalone feed is an efficient solution for a site with only a couple of such feeds.

9. Content-centric websites may tease the public with “above the fold” – or abbreviated – content for the entire audience, while enticing the visitor to log in or sign up to read the entire article.

10. Note that if these hybrid views will only apply to pages, a developer can create a “member content” page template as an alternative to using a custom field. Doing so will eliminate the need for the custom field check and alternative outputs inside the same template.

11. Sometimes, sending members to the standard WordPress login form is not ideal.

12. This can be achieved by checking the page ID of the top level page inside the header, and dropping in additional styles when the IDs for those top level pages were found.

13. Depending on the design of a particular template, some checks may need to placed around this code.

14. And so building these things into the Windows platform, both on the phone, and on the PC, and having great tools for those will let you build these new kinds of applications.