Exercise 32. Translate from Russian into English

1. Мне не нравится ни этот цвет, ни такой фасон.

2. Ни мои братья, ни родители не предложил мне помощи, когда я в этом нуждался.

3. Или ты немедленно уедешь из города или ты меня больше никогда не увидишь.

4. Джек или Марта, Вы может объяснить мне, что здесь произошло?

5. Погода была ужасная и мы ничего не успели сделать, ни поехать на пикник, ни забрать бабушку с дачи.

6. Она мне сказала, что не любит ни побережье, ни горы, она предпочитает северный полюс!

7. Либо ты прекращаешь себя так отвратительно вести, либо я просто ухожу.

8. Ни он, ни его сестры никогда не зависели от своих родителей.

9. Либо он не знает как вести себя в обществе, либо просто ему все равно, что о нем подумают.

Prepositions (time)

IN

Ø expressing a period of time during which an event happens (years, months, seasons, parts of the day)

They met in 1885.

They went away in January

They go on holidays in summer.

He gets up in the morning.

NOTE: if the nouns denoting a part of the day have attributes they are used with the preposition on:

on a fine summer morning

on the morning of the 1^st of July

The parts of yesterday, today and tomorrow are used without an article.

Yesterday morning I got up very early

This morning I have English classes

Tomorrow afternoon I will be in Greece

Ø expressing the length of time before a future event is expected to happen

I'll see you in fifteen minutes

ON

Ø indicating the exact day of the month

The news were reported on September 26

Ø indicating the days of the week

We will start off on Sunday

Ø parts of a day during which an event takes place if they are used with attributes

I remember it happened on a very hot evening in July

Ø indicating some special days

What will you give me on my birthday?

Ø with the word ‘holiday’

She is away on holiday

AT

Ø expressing exact time when an event takes place or a particular period of a day

He called me at midnight.

The crime was committed at 4.00 pm.

The sea is cooler at night.

Ø pointing at holiday periods

There are big sales in London at Christmas

Ø with nouns meaning meals

He read a newspaper at breakfast

Ø with the word ‘weekend’

We went to the seaside at weekend

NOTE: In informal speech we do not use any preposition with such words as last, next, this, that, each, every, one, some, all

I got up early that morning.

We worked all night.