Larisa Lubimova – English Grammar with Kudjo. Part 4 Понятная и забавная грамматика для детей и взрослых (страница 8)

6 He must /can’t have tried to escape from this trap but he was too little and too weak to do it on his own.

7 When Kit heard the dogs talking above him, he could hardly believe his ears, thinking he must suffer / be suffering from auditory hallucination.

8 The kitten didn’t know how long he had been sitting in the trap but he had a feeling that he must have been / be there for ages.

EXERCISE 7

Fill the gaps in the story with missing words:

As the pit was absolutely *****, it must have been dug to trap huge animals. At the mere thought of having such monsters around the ***** were terribly screwed up and immediately started ***** Kit out of the pit. They used all their bags to make one long ***** but it wasn’t enough to get Kit out of the *****. Luna tied herself to one ***** of this rope and jumped to the trap to rescue her unfortunate *****. Chilly and Cuba had to try their best and worst to get the both friends up. The fear of being attacked by giant wild ***** made them far stronger and Kit was finally free and *****. He looked so ashamed of himself that the dogs didn’t ***** him. This adventure must have taught the kitten a *****, which he’ll remember for a long time.

EXERCISE 8

Find and correct 9 mistakes in the sentences:

1 The dogs were so happy to find Kit that they can’t have forgotten about the danger.

2 They were standing around the pit discussing where to go next when they heard spine chilling howls. Some wild animals must been approaching.

3 The friends looked around trying to find a kind of shelter to hide but they can hardly see anything suitable.

4 The sound of howling was getting louder and louder, which meant the monster must has been coming nearer and nearer.

5 Suddenly the beast stopped howling but it can’t go away because the dogs could hear it snapping branches to crush everything crossing its path.

6 Chilly suggested to trap the beast into the pit and the dogs rushed to cover it with big sticks for camouflage.

7 The girls with the kitten hid behind a big spruce while Chilly kept to stand near the edge of the trap to provoke the animal to jump.

8 Chilly must wish he hidden too but he had to be a tease to attract the monster.

EXERCISE 9

Choose the correct option:

1 A huge lynx appeared out of the forest and stopped to smell the air suspiciously. It ***** the dogs.

a must detect

b can’t be detecting

c must have detected

2 When the lynx saw Chilly, it growled and moved slowly towards him. Chilly ***** scared stiff but didn’t run away.

a can’t have got

b must have got

c must get

3 The lynx and Chilly ***** at the opposite edges of the trap for a long time but suddenly Kit jumped out from behind the spruce and hissed furiously.

a could have been standing

b can’t have been standing

c could stand

4 It ***** the lynx jump forward and fall right into the trap.

a must made

b can’t have made

c must have made

5 When the lynx realised what had happened, it started dancing up and down with rage and fear. It ***** helpless and yelled.

a must be feeling

b can’t have felt

c must have felt

6 The lynx yelled like a child and the dogs wished they ***** it.

a hadn’t trapped

b wouldn’t trap

c didn’t trap

7 Who knows what ***** if they hadn’t done it.

a might happen

b can have happened

c might have happened

8 The lynx suddenly fell silent and the dogs worried that it *****.

a can’t have died

b might have died

c may die

EXERCISE 10

Translate the story:

Чилли осторожно подошел к самому краю и заглянул в яму. На дне лежала рысь, свернувшись клубочком. Даже сейчас она казалась огромной и пугающей. Должно быть, она устала метаться, лишилась последних сил и заснула. Чилли гавкнул, но рысь даже не пошевелилась. Собаки растерялись. Они не могли оставить живое существо, пусть даже и такое страшное, умирать в этой яме. Более того, если есть такая ловушка, значит, есть и те, кто охотится на огромных животных и значит, рано или поздно они явятся за своей добычей.

Рысь немного пошевелилась и подняла голову. Она уже не казалась такой страшной. Большая, красивая кошка с печальными глазами. Она посмотрела вверх на собак и вдруг мяукнула, как обычная домашняя кошечка. Рысь попробовала встать, но не смогла. Возможно, она поранила лапу при падении или возможно, просто чувствовала себя совершенно обессиленной. Надо было торопиться и помочь ей выбраться наружу.

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Unit 5

Adjectives

Adjectives are words that describe nouns and we use them before nouns, or following linking verbs such as appear, be, become, get, feel, look, seem:

The huge lynx looked miserable.

Some adjectives are never used before the noun; they are only used after the linking verb: ashamed Kit

Kit was ashamed.

These include a number of “a” words like afraid, alike, alive, alone, ashamed, asleep, awake, and aware.

One exception to the “adjectives before nouns” rule is that adjectives come after words like something, anybody, nothing:

The dogs wish they were somewhere safe.

The adjectives chief, elder, eldest, former, indoor, inner, main, only, outdoor, outer, principal, upper can only be used before nouns.

Kit turned out to be the eldest kitten in his family.