Практический курс английского языка - Камянова Т.
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Indefinite Gerund Perfect Gerund
Do you remember your travelling abroad? Do you remember your having travelled abroad?
Can you forgive my not telling you the truth ? Can you forgive my not having told you the truth ? After having an accident this girl couldn't recover. After having had an accident she couldn't recover. -On returning home he phoned his friends. On having returned home he phoned his friends.
My colleague left without saying good-bye. My colleague left without having Said good-bye.
с) Отличие герундия от причастия в предложении не представляет особой сложности, если учесть, что герундий в отличие от причастий часто употребляется после предлогов, а также с местоимениями в притяжательном падеже или существительными одушевленными в притяжательном падеже. Однако при употреблении Participle I Perfect в функции обстоятельства возможна его замена герундием с предлогом after, а при быстрой смене действий - с предлогом on:
Participle I Perfect Gerund
Having entered the university he gave up Ms job. After entering the university he gave up his job. Having packed out things we left the place. On packing our things we left the place.
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WHO AM I THIS TIME?
(after Kurt Vonnegut)
The North Crawford Mask and Wig Club, an amateur theatrical society I belong to, chose a play by Tennessee Williams for the spring performance. Doris Sawyer, who always directs, said she couldn't direct this time, because her mother was so sick. And^she said the club ought to develop some other directors anyway, because she was already seventy four and she couldn't live forever.
So I was surprised to get the directing job, as I was a salesman of windows and doors, and I had never played any serious parts. I made a lot of conditions before I took the directing job, and the biggest one was that Harry Nash, the only real actor in the club, had to play the Marlon Brando part in the play. Usually Harry played all the main roles in the theatre. But he wasn't at the meeting to say whether he would like this role or not. He never came to meetings. He was too shy. He wasn't married, didn't go out with women, and he didn't have any close men friends. He stayed away from all kinds of gatherings, because he never could think of anything to say or do without a script.
So I had to go down to Miller's Hardware Store where-Harry was a clerk the next day, and ask him if he would take the part. I stopped off at the telephone company to complain of a bill I had got for a call to Honolulu. I had never called Honolulu in my life. And there was this beautiful girl I'd neve* seen before behind the counter at the phone company, and she explained that the company had installed an automatic bitling machine, and that the machine sometimes made mistakes. «Not only did I not call Honolulu,» I told her, «I don't think anybody in North Crawford ever has or will.»
So she corrected this awful mistake, and I asked her if she was from around North Crawford. She said no. She said she just came with the new billing machine to teach local girls how to take care of it. After that, she said, she would go with some other machine to some place else. She didn't seem very interested in that subject, and I wondered if she was interested in anything. She seemed almost a machine herself, an automatic phone-company machine.
«How long will you be in town here?» I asked her.
«I stay in each town eight weeks, sir,» she said. And I noticed that she had pretty blue eyes.
And then I got it in my head that she might make a good Stella for the play. Stella was the wife of the Marlon Brando character, the wife of the character I wanted Harry Nash to play. So I told her where and when we were going to hold tryouts, and I said, the club would be very happy if she came.
She looked surprised. «You know,» she said, «that's the first time anybody ever asked me to do anything like this.» Then she said her name was Helene Shaw. And she said she might just surprise me - and herself. She said she just might come.
I was glad with her answer and hurried to Harry Nash. I should say that he was absolutely true in all his roles, but in his real life he was not like that. Somebody-said one time that Harry ought to go to a psychiatrist so he could be something important and colourful in his real life too - so he could get married, and maybe get a better job than a clerk in a store for fifty dollarse week. But I doubt that a psychiatrist could help him, for all the town knew what the trouble with Harry was: he had been left on the doorstep of the church when he was a baby, and he had never found out who his parents were.
When I told him that I had been appointed director, and that I wanted him in my play, he said what he always said to anybody who asked him to be in a play: «Who am I this time?»
Next day there were tryouts on the second floor of the North Crawford Public Library. Doris Sawyer, the woman who usually directs came to help me. The two of us sat upstairs, while the people who wanted parts waited below. We called them upstairs one by one. Harry was also present there.
