 |
|
Subject: Perfect or Future-in-the-Past gram. Good day, dear colleagues!Везде Future-in-the-Past или я давно не делала контрольные? Economists understood that inflation (to cause) many economic problems by the end of the previous year. |
| давно не делала |
|
Check please 1. had caused 2. would not provide 3. were depending |
|
link 17.11.2011 11:52 |
| я бы в третьем написал просто depended... но контрольных тоже давно не делал)) |
| переумничала однако)) Данке шён |
| correct |
|
1. Macroeconomists predicted that inflation (to get better). 2. The early economists believed that the price of commodity (to depend) on the labour which was needed to produce it. 3. The OPEC group showed how quickly the balance of economic power (to change) by the end of the last decade. В первом и втором случаях глаголы в главных предложениях опять подталкивают меня к would. 3. Past Perfect |
|
No, 'were depending' is more like it because = during that period. So, you were right, Nite :)) (NPI) Of course one can speculate that 'at that time' means exactly 'on that day'. |
|
/шопотом/ damned grammar... who uses it? Thanks, Wolverin. |
|
link 17.11.2011 12:17 |
|
2 Nite С возвращением! )) У вас там что ли аттестация переводчиков? |
|
Привет миста! Я погрязла в работе, перевела целого кальмар-ричстакера. А это халтурка, которая как лакмусова бумажка показала, что тупеем мы на технических переводах без должного практикования заумных грамматических оборотов. С поднебесной выбрался? |
|
link 17.11.2011 12:29 |
|
1. price is singular, so "was depending" 2. depend is not usually used in continuous |
|
LK, Have you been drinking? 1) "price is singular, so "was depending" " This is what I referred to: "The people in the industrial countries knew that at that time they were depending heavily on imported oil. - WHAT PRICE? -. 2) "depend is not usually used in continuous" |
|
link 17.11.2011 12:54 |
|
Wolverin, make love, not war))) no google-fight. For me "were depending" sounds a little bit odd. I'm not sure, but doesn't grammar books say something about verbs not commonly used in cont.? I just thought "depend" was one of them. |
|
link 17.11.2011 12:56 |
| shoot, my own grammar is terrible ))) |
|
What war? It's cool. Don't worry. You just need to get your bearings, man. "shoot, my own grammar is terrible" However, the question still remains: show me those "grammar books [that] say something about verbs not commonly used in cont.? -I just thought "depend" was one of them-" As an essay writer [the name I dare call myself], you can not be too careful. So, I am curious- maybe all those years I have been terribly wrong using 'depending'. |
|
link 17.11.2011 13:22 |
|
Sorry, don't have anything at hand, will look it up later... So far only some dubious E-sources like: http://www.myenglishgrammar.com/present-continuous-tense.html Not exactly to the point, but still: an essay writer may easily use something that will not be approved by a Russian teacher of English )) |
|
о русских учителях английского давайте не надо, и так уже много сказано. Check please the second portion of sentences. I will much appreciate this. |
| 2. The early economists believed that the price of commodity (to depend) on the labour which was needed to produce it. DEPENDED I think |
|
link 17.11.2011 14:19 |
|
I vote for "depended". "I believe the price depends on the labour..." + the usual "sequence of tenses" rule |
|
Wolverin&Lonely Knight Enterprise 4, Coursebook,Grammar Reference page 158. Virginia Evans-Jenny Dooley According to the ladies DEPEND doesn't have continuous form. |
|
link 17.11.2011 14:38 |
| a guess: may be it has smth to do with meanings of "depend"? Like, "I was depending (=counting) on you" sounds more or less ok? |
|
verbs expressing a permanent state rather than an action. These are; verbs of senses verbs of feelings\amotion verbs of opinion (agree, suppose, understand...) other verbs; belong, consist, depend, include, require.....) However, Americans love writing "I'm needing your info ....." |
|
"Virginia Evans-Jenny Dooley" - (~книшко) - "такая зеленая, как купорос? В печь ее!" (с) - Представляю себе такую училку после киевского иняза. Ты ей - смотри, вот |
|
В Киеве не был, (а надо бы) В моем личном бумажном словаре полно примеров этого глагола в континиусе, так что я никого не "сбиваю", просто констатирую. А где можно его употреблять, где лучше не надо, знает только грамотный носитель языка. |
|
amat, это вы все на свой счет принимаете? - широкая у вас душа. |
|
господа, мы говорим о вузовской заочной контрольной. Проверять ее будет тоже далекий от "ношения языка" человек. Вы мне однозначно помогли, а я однозначно подзабыла грамматику, так как как ни учи глаголы состояния и проч. опят показывает, что в жизни все намного проще. Как думают, так и говорят, а ты как слышишь, так и повторяешь, не задумываясь. Thanks everybody for good kick on/in/at (ненужное вычеркнуть) my ass. |
| Да ладно, чего уж там, теперича ничего не попишешь с такой душой-то-) ( Разве что почитаешь-) |
| You need to be logged in to post in the forum |