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17. —How do we
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the main road?
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so I had no time to do anything.
20. —The door's open. Shall we here!)
Exercise 4 (on Section IV). Replace the italicized words by idiomatic expressions with get.
1. —The Liberal candidate was elected. 2. —Paul is making good progress at university. 3. — I thought Rosemary was going to organize the concert.—No. She avoided doing it. 4. —Olga applied to Leningrad Universitybutshe wasn't accepted. 5. —Do your work without wasting time. 6. —What progress are you making with your thesis? 7. — Did you manage to buy a ticket for "Romeo and Juliet"? 8. —She's on good terms with her mother-in-law. 9. — He was lucky. He only had to pay a fine. 10. —I do hope Brian is admitted to the conservatoire. He has set his heart on a musical career.
Grateful, Thankful
These two words are close in meaning but not synonyms. We are grateful to another person who has helped us in some way.
eg 1. We are grateful to you for your help.
2. He was very grateful to his parents for lending him the money to buy a house.
We cannot be thankful to another person. This word is used when we are glad that something fortunate has happened,
69 especially when something unfortunate might have happened. The original idea was thankful to God (cf. Thank God).
eg 3. Vm thankful John's safe. He might have been
killed in that car accident.
A , /JL ., ,, , і to have \ escaped so
4. You should be thankful {{thaf) you have)uguly.
To be thankful for small mercies is a rather common expression meaning "to be glad that at least some minor aspects of the situation are favourable, that things are not worse".
eg 5. Be thankful for small mercies.
Exercise. Fill in the blanks with grateful or thankful.
1. I should be very . . . if you would send me a copy of your latest book. 2. —I'm ... to my parents for giving me the opportunity of going to university. 3. — I'm ... that Philip didn't go on the expedition. It turned out to be disastrous. 4. We are ... to our readers for their letters. 5. —You ought to be ... that you've got an interesting job. Mine is deadly boring. 6. —Oh, well, I suppose we should be ... for small mercies. 7. — I'm ... the doctor came in time. 8. — I'm very .. . to the doctor for giving Ann such good treatment. 9. —Paul's very . . . to you for your advice. 10. —I'm . . . Andrew didn't catch measles from the other children. 11. —He should be . . . to be alive. 12. She gave the assistant a . . . ьтіїе.
Greedy, Mean
Both these words can be translated as жадный but they are not synonymous.
Greedy means "filled with a desire to have, take more of something than is right or reasonable". It often refers to food.
eg 1. Don't be greedy, Helen. Leave some sweets for the others.
However, it may also be used in other contexts, for example, with reference to money or other material possessions, or power.
eg 2. He was greedy for power.
Mean (in one of its various senses) implies lack of generosity, reluctance to give or share what one already has.
eg 3. — We're collecting for a retirement present for Mrs Lewis. Would you like to contributed
70 — Well, I'm rather short of money at the moment.
— Oh, come on. Don't be mean.
so mean /ie net^r invites anybody out.
Exercise. Which word (greedy or mean) would you apply to the behaviour described in the following situations?
1. When Bill goes somewhere with other people (for example, to a restaurant, or to the cinema) he always tries to avoid paying. 2. Mary borrows her sister's skates every time instead of buying her own, although she has enough money. 3. Paul took three pieces of cake one after the other. 4. Joan often goes to her friends for meals but never invites them to more than a cup of tea at her own house. 5. When there is a shortage of something Valerie buys much more than she really needs. 6. Peter never buys his children birthday presents. 7. Tony can afford to sit in the best seats at the theatre but ne always buys the cheapest tickets. 8. When her friend offered her some apples, Susan took nearly all of them.
Have, Have Got, Do Have
These three forms all occur in modern English to denote possession but they are not completely interchangeable. The distinctions between them are as follows:
Have alone is used to denote possession at the moment of speaking in formal and semi-formal style.
eg L They have a large house in the country.
In informal style have got is used instead, have generally being contracted to 've and has to 's.
eg 2. They've got a car.
3. I've got a new tape-recorder.
4. She's got a lot of interesting books.
Simply have/has, without got, should be avoided in such colloquial sentences.
The negative and interrogative forms of have and have got in traditional British English are as follows:
have (formal) have got (informal)
