Exercise 5. Translate the following phrases paying attention to Modal Verbs

Exercise 4. Read and translate the following sentences paying attention to the tense of the predicate.

1. a) The architect used the new materials for building purposes.

b) The architect was testing some new materials at 5 o’clock yesterday.

c) The architect has tested some new materials. The result is good.

2. a) Some new materials were tested at the laboratory yesterday.

b) Some new materials were being tested when the students came into the laboratory.

c) Some new materials had been tested by 5 o’clock yesterday.

3. a) Prof. N. will test some new materials tomorrow.

b) Prof. N. will be testing some new materials at 5 o’clock tomorrow (or when you come to the laboratory).

c) Prof. N. will have tested some new materials by 5 o’clock tomorrow.

4. a) Some new materials will be tested tomorrow.

b) Some new materials will have been tested by 5 o’clock tomorrow.

5. a) This column is restored by the construction team.

b) This column is being restored now.

c) This column hasn’t been restored yet.

6. a) This column will be restored in 2006.

b) This column will have been restored next year.

1) A certain amount of invironmental intrusion had to be accepted and sometimes housing had encroached upon existing water work.

2) Overall design of a reservoir these days must include landscaping....

3) Jury member Peter Davey will have to explain why Zumthor was premiated.

4) The Latin and Teutonic culture should intermingle.

5) Romansch and German must be spoken in adjacent settlements.

6) Zumthor is to know the piazzas and arcades of the towns, as he served for 12 years in the canton’s department for the preservation of monuments.

7) He ought to be in a bed as he is badly ill.

8) He had to stay at the hotel as the weather became bad.

9) Here has to be the entrace.

10) The drama of the heaven-view must be enhanced by the luminous interior.

11) These tall wooden columns have to be an abstract version of the groves in which worship began.

12) The congregation was to sit on plain whitewood pews.

13) I suppose that Peter Zumthor will have to agree with my analogies.

14) Zumthor should tell us about the meanings of his forms and spaces, as many architects do.

15) He believes that ‘Architecture has to have its own realm.

16) Peter Zumthor was able to become the winner of the Carisberg Prize for Architecture in 1998.

17) Zumthor could explore the essence of architecture in buildings which celebrate place and engage all the human senses.

18) Chur (the cantonal capital) was able almost to be in morthen Italy.

19) This architect will be able to design a new multy-storied building.

20) I am rather pleased with the democratically modest interpretation of Baroque, and could go on this tendency in practice.

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