Lesson 26

ГРАММАТИКА: Герундий и герундиальный оборот в функции определе­ния. Причастие и причастный оборот в функции опре­деления. Инфинитив после причастия II и слов likely, sure, certain.

Section I

Ex. 1. Practise your reading.

Liquid solutions provide an extremely convenient means of bringing together carcfully measured amounts of reagents and of allowing them to react in a controlled manner.

Ex. 2. State what parts of speech the following words belong to:

press, pressing, pressure, comprcss, compressible, incompressible, compression

Ex. 3. Define the meanings of the word respect in the following sentences:

I Ex. 1. Макс Example:

1. Wc respect our supervisor very much. 2. In this respect the two substanccs are alike. 3. Everybody has great respect to our lecturer in
general chcmistry. 4. Selenium resembles sulphur in many respects. 5. My opinion is in no respect different from the author's. 6. With respect to their properties, halogens arc of particular interest.

Ex. 4. Analyse the following sentence:

The most important problem of chcmistry is that of explaining the behaviour of substanccs.