If only I knew how to repair this motor.

I wish I were.

I wish I were not so busy today.

It’s a pity I was so busy yesterday.

I wish I hadn’t been so busy yesterday.

1. It’s a pity she is at work at the moment.

2. It’s a pity we were not acquainted with electrical engineering last year.

3. It’s a pity he can’t design the solution.

4. It’s a pity I didn’t think realistically what sort of person I am.

5. It’s a pity you were absent at the meeting yesterday.

(B) Exercise 4. Answer the following sentences using the Subjunctive Mood after the verb wish according to the model.

Model: Are you an engineer?

1. Are you a second-year student?

2. Do you know physics well?

3. Did you speak at the meeting yesterday?

4. Did you get a good mark in English at the exam?

5. Is your report ready?

(B) Exercise 5. Supply the necessary forms of the Subjunctive Mood in clauses introduced by as if and as though.

1. You look as if you (to want) to ask something.

2. She greeted me as though I (to be) an old school friend whom she hadn’t seen for years.

3. I don’t like Tim. He talks as if he (to know) everything.

4. Brian is a terrible driver. He drives as if he (to be) the only driver on the road.

5. I’m 20 years old, so, please, don’t talk to me as though I (to be) a child.

(B) Exercise 6. Use if only instead of it’s a pity. Make all the necessary changes.

Model: It’s a pity but I don’t know how to repair this motor.

1. It’s a pity but I am not a first-year student of this university.

2. It’s a pity but he doesn’t know how to design a solution.

3. It’s a pity but he doesn’t have the professional skills of an engineer.

4. It’s a pity but he has never worked in the field of mechanical engineering.

5. It’s a pity but we failed to find a practical solution.

(C) Exercise 7. Complete the following sentences.

(a)

1. He knows these machines as though….

2. He always makes wonderful speeches as if….

3. He looked tired as though….

4. He behaves as if….

5. You look as though….

(b)

1. (Somewhere you’d like to be now - on the beach, in New York)

I wish I….

2. (Something you’d like to have - a computer, a job, much money, etc.)

I wish I….

3. (Something you’d like to be able to do - speak a language, sing, fly, etc.)

I wish I….

4. (Something you’d like to be – beautiful, strong, rich, etc.)

I wish I ….

(C) Exercise 8. Translate the sentences into English. Use Subjunctive Mood.

1. Жаль, что я не могу пойти на эту лекцию.

2. Я бы хотел, чтобы вы все-таки прочли эту книгу.

3. Жаль, что вы не интересуетесь техникой.

4. Я сожалею, что не выбрал профессию инженера.

5. Жаль, что в детстве меня не учили никакому иностранному языку.

6. У меня такое чувство, будто он всю жизнь ремонтировал такую технику.

7. Ты смотришь, словно ничего не понимаешь.

8. Он рассуждал так, как будто уже много лет хорошо знаком с этим вопросом.

9. О, если бы я знал, как прийти к правильному решению!

10. Если бы я только изучил досконально весь теоретический материал этого вопроса!

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