Перепишите предложения. Подчеркните многофункциональное окончание –ing. Определите, к каким частям речи относятся слова с окончанием –ing. Предложения переведите на Русский язык.

a

1. You should think before speaking.

2. After finding a new word in the dictionary, I wrote it down and went on reading.

3. He spent much time on the copying of his literature lectures.

4. What do you mean by saying that?

5. The students find the reading of English newspapers rather difficult at first.

6. Instead of going home after classes, students went on disco.

7. Chalk is used for writing on the blackboard.

8. We sat on the riverside listening to the running of the water.

b

1. The cleaning of the room was done.

2. Running every morning is very good for the health of people.

3. Going home from the theatre, they were discussing the play they had seen.

4. Remembering that time was like going back to his childhood and re-living those happy days.

5. Tom lived there like a paying guest, attracting very little attention of the others.

6. It is interesting to know new methods of power producing.

7. I stopped knocking at the door and, sitting down at the top of the stairs, began waiting for my father to come.

8. The old clock kept ticking on the mantelpiece, as if counting the seconds left before the coming of daylight.

c

1. Traveling is a pleasant way of improving one’s education.

2. Every trust arranges for the marketing of its products.

3. Asking him for help is useless.

4. Happily we escaped being delayed on our way.

5. The driving wheel of the machine is broken.

6. Driving in a motor-car we passed many cities.

7. We have every chance of passing our examinations well.

8. There are many discoveries being made all over the world.