Grammar
After verbs denoting order & permission: to order, to allow.
1. After verbs denoting sense perception: to hear, to see, to watch, to observe, to notice, etc.
(only the Indefinite Infinitive Active is used. If the meaning is passive we use Participle II)
Note: to see=to understand: we don’t use the construction.
To hear=to lern, to be told: we use a clause of a gerund.
2.After verbs denoting mental activity: to know, to think, to consider, to believe, to suppose, to expect, to imagine, to find, to feel, to trust, etc. After them- to be( not after expect). Perfect Infinitive is seldom used.
3.After verbs of declaring: to pronounce, to declare, to report.
After verbs denoting wish & intention: to want, to wish, to desire, to mean, to intend, to choose.
After verbs denoting feeling & emotions: to like, to dislike, to love, to hate, cannot bear, etc.
After verbs denoting order & permission: to order, to allow, to suffer, to have, etc. !!! Only if the object is expressed by a noun or pronoun denoting a lifeless thing or when the infinitive is passive( not for to suffer & to have.
After verbs denoting compulsion: to to make(заставить), to cause(заставить, распорядиться), to get(добиться), to have(заставить, сказать, чтобы).
With the preposition for, on & upon(after to rely)
With verbs denoting sense perception: to see, to hear, etc.(If a process is expressed Participle I is used).
With verbs denoting mental activity: to think, to consider, to know, to believe, to suppose.
With the verb to make.
With verbs to say & to report( translation-неопределённо-личное предложение).
With the verbs to be likely, to be sure, to be certain.
With pairs of synonyms: to seem & to appear, to happen & to chance(случайно), to prove & to turn out(оказалось).
The Subject(often with the introductory it)
Predicative
Complex object.
Attribute.
Adverbial modifier
a)of purpose
b)of result
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PARTICIPLE I |
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1.Attribute (Participle I Indefinite Active & Passive). |
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2.Predicative (Participle I Indefinite Active). |
To be astonishing, to be disappointing, to be exciting, to be humiliating (оскорбительно, унизительно), to be inviting (заманчивый), to be tempting (привлекательный), to be terrifying (ужасный), to be touching. |
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3.Parenthesis.(Participle I Indefinite Active) |
Generally speaking, judging by appearance (words)(судя по внешнему виду), mildly speaking(спокойно), speaking frankly, strictly speaking, saying nothing of, roughly speaking. |
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4.Adverbial modifier of clause(reason) (PI Indefinite Active, PI Indefinite Passive; PI Perfect Active, PI Perfect Passive). |
Not knowing the topic well, he got confused. Being impressed by the duel scene in ”Hamlet”, they were silent on the way home. Having lost the book, the students couldn’t prepare for the topic. Having been left alone, the child felt miserable & lonely |
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5.Adverbial modifier of comparison. PI Indefinite Act |
She shivered with fright as if realizing the danger. |
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6.Adverbial modifier of attendant circumstances(manner) Participle Ind Act |
I spent the morning on the cliff reading. |
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7. Adverbial modifier of time. PI Ind Act PI Ind Pas PI Perf Act PI Ind Pas |
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tThe functions of participle II in the sentence.
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PII of transitive verbs corresponds to the Russian страдательное причастие or действительное причастие of some verbs ending in –ся a broken chair (сломанный стул), a newspaper published in Moscow (газета, издаваемая в Москве). PII can be used in post-position & in pre-position (without any accompanying words). He answered through the locked door. (Он ответил через открытую дверь). They turned into the large conservatory beautifully lit up with Chinese lamps. (Они свернули в небольшую оранжерею, красиво освещённую китайскими фонариками) PII of intransitive verbs, which denote passing into a new state, corresponds to the Russian действительное причастие or to an adjective. Only in few cases PII of an intransitive verb may be used attributively, mostly PII of the verbs to fade(увядать), to wither(искушать, губить),to retire, to fall/ to vanish(исчезать). Faded leaves (увядшие листья). An attribute expressed by the PII may be detached (отделён); in this case it often has an additional meaning of an adverbial modifier: The housekeeper had come out of her room, attracted by the violent ringing of the ball. (Экономка вышла из своей комнаты, привлечённая неистовым звоном колокольчика.) |
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Adverbial modifier.
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PII preceded by the conjunctions when, while, if, as thought, etc.When guestonied Annie had implied vaguely…that she was anxious about her brother-in-law. (Когда Энни стали расспрашивать, она дала понять, что беспокоится о своём шурине). It was a dreadful thing that he now proposed, a breach of the law which, if discovered, would bring them into the police court. То, что он предлагал, было ужасно: это было нарушение закона, и, если бы оно открылось, их отдали бы под суд. As if torn with inner conflict & indecision, he cried.Он плакал, словно его мучили внутренняя борьба и сомнения. Her spirit, though crushed, wasn’t broken-хотя она и не была подавлена, но не была сломлена. |
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In spite of himself, he was impressed. На него это произвело впечатление, помимо его воли. |
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She has found me unaltered; but I have found her changed. Она нашла, что я ничуть не изменился, а я нашёл, что она изменилась. |
The Objective Participle Construction is a construction in which the participle is in predicate relation to a noun in the common case or a pronoun in the objective case.
It may be found:
After verbs denoting sense perception (to see, to hear, to feel, to find, etc): Then he looked out of the window & saw clouds gathering. I heard my wife coming. She could feel her hands trembling exceedingly. I saw the pony harnessed myself. You will probably find your sister grown.
After some verbs of mental activity: to consider, to understand: I consider myself engaged to Herr Klemser.
After verbs denoting wish, such as to want, to wish, to desire. In this case only Participle II is used. The governor wants it done quick.
After the verbs to have & to get, only PII is used. In this case the Objective Participial Construction shows that the action expressed by the participle is performed at the request of the person denoted by the subject of the sentence: Thus I had the piano tuned means “I made someone tune the piano”. He had several bottles of wine brought. Ему принесли несколько бутылок вина. In interrogative & negative sentences the auxiliary verb to do is used: Why don’t you have your hair waved? (Почему вы не сделаете завивку?).
The subjective Participial Construction.
The construction in which the participle (mostly the PI) is in predicate relation to a noun in the common case or to a pronoun in the nominative case, which is the subject of the sentence.
In rendering this construction in Russian a complex sentence is generally used; the principal clause is of the type which in Russian syntax is called «неопределённо-личное предложение».
The peculiarity of this construction is that it doesn’t serve as one part of the sentence: one of its component parts has the function of the subject, the other forms part of a compound verbal predicate:
They were hard talking together.
This construction is chiefly used after the verbs of sense perception:
The horse was seen descending the hill-Видно было, как лошадь спускалась с холма.
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PARTICIPLE I |
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1.Attribute (Participle I Indefinite Active & Passive). |
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2.Predicative (Participle I Indefinite Active). |
To be astonishing, to be disappointing, to be exciting, to be humiliating (оскорбительно, унизительно), to be inviting (заманчивый), to be tempting (привлекательный), to be terrifying (ужасный), to be touching. |
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3.Parenthesis.(Participle I Indefinite Active) |
Generally speaking, judging by appearance (words)(судя по внешнему виду), mildly speaking(спокойно), speaking frankly, strictly speaking, saying nothing of, roughly speaking. |
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4.Adverbial modifier of clause(reason) (PI Indefinite Active, PI Indefinite Passive; PI Perfect Active, PI Perfect Passive). |
Not knowing the topic well, he got confused. Being impressed by the duel scene in ”Hamlet”, they were silent on the way home. Having lost the book, the students couldn’t prepare for the topic. Having been left alone, the child felt miserable & lonely |
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5.Adverbial modifier of comparison. PI Indefinite Act |
She shivered with fright as if realizing the danger. |
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6.Adverbial modifier of attendant circumstances(manner) Participle Ind Act |
I spent the morning on the cliff reading. |
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7. Adverbial modifier of time. PI Ind Act PI Ind Pas PI Perf Act PI Ind Pas |
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tThe functions of participle II in the sentence.
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PII of transitive verbs corresponds to the Russian страдательное причастие or действительное причастие of some verbs ending in –ся a broken chair (сломанный стул), a newspaper published in Moscow (газета, издаваемая в Москве). PII can be used in post-position & in pre-position (without any accompanying words). He answered through the locked door. (Он ответил через открытую дверь). They turned into the large conservatory beautifully lit up with Chinese lamps. (Они свернули в небольшую оранжерею, красиво освещённую китайскими фонариками) PII of intransitive verbs, which denote passing into a new state, corresponds to the Russian действительное причастие or to an adjective. Only in few cases PII of an intransitive verb may be used attributively, mostly PII of the verbs to fade(увядать), to wither(искушать, губить),to retire, to fall/ to vanish(исчезать). Faded leaves (увядшие листья). An attribute expressed by the PII may be detached (отделён); in this case it often has an additional meaning of an adverbial modifier: The housekeeper had come out of her room, attracted by the violent ringing of the ball. (Экономка вышла из своей комнаты, привлечённая неистовым звоном колокольчика.) |
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Adverbial modifier.
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PII preceded by the conjunctions when, while, if, as thought, etc.When guestonied Annie had implied vaguely…that she was anxious about her brother-in-law. (Когда Энни стали расспрашивать, она дала понять, что беспокоится о своём шурине). It was a dreadful thing that he now proposed, a breach of the law which, if discovered, would bring them into the police court. То, что он предлагал, было ужасно: это было нарушение закона, и, если бы оно открылось, их отдали бы под суд. As if torn with inner conflict & indecision, he cried.Он плакал, словно его мучили внутренняя борьба и сомнения. Her spirit, though crushed, wasn’t broken-хотя она и не была подавлена, но не была сломлена. |
| Predicative |
In spite of himself, he was impressed. На него это произвело впечатление, помимо его воли. |
| Part of a complex object |
She has found me unaltered; but I have found her changed. Она нашла, что я ничуть не изменился, а я нашёл, что она изменилась. |
The Objective Participle Construction is a construction in which the participle is in predicate relation to a noun in the common case or a pronoun in the objective case.
It may be found:
After verbs denoting sense perception (to see, to hear, to feel, to find, etc): Then he looked out of the window & saw clouds gathering. I heard my wife coming. She could feel her hands trembling exceedingly. I saw the pony harnessed myself. You will probably find your sister grown.
After some verbs of mental activity: to consider, to understand: I consider myself engaged to Herr Klemser.
After verbs denoting wish, such as to want, to wish, to desire. In this case only Participle II is used. The governor wants it done quick.
After the verbs to have & to get, only PII is used. In this case the Objective Participial Construction shows that the action expressed by the participle is performed at the request of the person denoted by the subject of the sentence: Thus I had the piano tuned means “I made someone tune the piano”. He had several bottles of wine brought. Ему принесли несколько бутылок вина. In interrogative & negative sentences the auxiliary verb to do is used: Why don’t you have your hair waved? (Почему вы не сделаете завивку?).
The subjective Participial Construction.
The construction in which the participle (mostly the PI) is in predicate relation to a noun in the common case or to a pronoun in the nominative case, which is the subject of the sentence.
In rendering this construction in Russian a complex sentence is generally used; the principal clause is of the type which in Russian syntax is called «неопределённо-личное предложение».
The peculiarity of this construction is that it doesn’t serve as one part of the sentence: one of its component parts has the function of the subject, the other forms part of a compound verbal predicate:
They were hard talking together.
This construction is