HOMEWORK 7

Exercise 7 Causative have/get

1. Treba da uvedeš centralno grejanje pre zime.

You ought to have central heating introduced before winter.

2. Koliko često daješ auto na servis?

How often do you have your car serviced?

3. Mogu li da ti vidim slike iz Londona? – Ne, još uvek ih nisam dao na razvijanje.
Can I see your pictures from London? - No, I haven't had them developed yet.

4. Da li je istina da je pre mnogo godina dao da mu jedan poznati slikar naslika portret?
Is it true that he had a famous painter paint a portrait of him many years ago?

5. Bila je vrlo ljuta kad joj se računar pokvario pošto ga je nosila na servis samo nedelju dana
ranije.
She was very angry when her computer broke down, because she had it serviced only a
week earlier.

6. Neće li ti smetati ako dam da se ovaj ugovor iskopira?

You will not mind if I had this contract photocopied?

7. Ukrali su mu sav novac dok je bio na odmoru.

He got all his money stolen while he was on vacation.

8. Milanu su nos polomili u tuči.

Milan got his nose broken in a fight.

Exercise 8 Inversion with Negative Adverbials

1. Tek je kasnije otkriveno da je slika bila ukradena.

Only later it was revealed that the painting had been stolen.

2. Čim sam spustio slušalicu, telefon je ponovo zazvonio.

No sooner did I hang up the phone, than it rang again.

3. Ni u jednom trenutku nismo posumnjali u njegove dobre namere.

At no time did we doubt his good intentions.

4. Doktor je rekao pacijentu da ni u kom slučaju ne treba da se vraća na posao dok se ne

oporavi.
 The doctor told the patient that he should not, on no condition, return to work until he had
recovered.

5. Tek mnogo godina kasnije je istina izašla na videlo.

Only many years later did the truth come to light.

6. Toliko je gust bio smog te noći da ni maska koju je kupio zbog korone nije pomagala.
So thick was the smog that night, that not even the mask he bought to protect himself from
covid helped.

7. Nikada više ne treba dopustiti da ponovo dođe do takve situacije.

Never again should we let such a situation occur.

8. Samo ako obe strane prihvate taj plan ostvariće se dugotrajan mir u regionu.
Only if both sides go along with the plan will long-term peace be achieved in the region.

9. Tek kad sam posetio shvatio sam koliko je bolestan.

Only when I visited him did I realise how sick he was.

10. Tek kad smo stigli do njegove kuće otkrili smo da je otišao na službeni put I da samo
gubimo vreme time što svraćamo kod njega.
Only when we got to his house did we discover that he had gone on a business trip and
that we were only wasting time stopping by.

11. Samo što sam stavio ruku na Bena da ga pomazim, on me je ugrizao.

No sooner did I put my hand on Ben to pet him than he bit me.

12. Samo što sam zatvorio vrata, neko je pokucao.

No sooner did I close the door than someone knocked.

13. Ni u kom slučaju ne možemo prihvatiti prijave poslate elektronskom poštom.

Under no circumstance can we accept applications sent by e-mail.

14. Nije ni dolazila ni telefonirala.

Neither did she come nor did she make a phone call.

Exercise 9 Fronted Concessive Clauses

1. Uprkos tome što je stalno bio prekidan, Petar je nastavio da govori.

Although he was constantly being interrupted, Petar kept on talking..

2. Uprkos tome što kažete, ja ipak smatram da je on dobar nastavnik.

Despite what you are saying, I still think that he is a good teacher.
3. Koliko god mu govorio da zatvori vrata, on ih uvek ostavi otvorenim.
Although I constantly tell him to close the door, he always leaves the door open.

4. Koliko god pokupavao, ne mogu da provalim ovu bravu.

Although I am trying, I cannot break this lock.

5. Ko god došao na njegovo mesto biće nam dobrodošao.

Whoever replaces him will be welcome.

6. Ali, koliko god da je slušala, razgovor joj nije pružio ključ za rešenje tajne.
No matter how attentively she listened, the conversation did not give her the key for the
revelation of the secret.

7. Koliko god tražili, nigde nećete naći čoveka zadovoljnog kao on.
No matter how diligently you search, nowhere will you find a man as satisfied as he is.

8. Verovali smo da je nevin i pored neoborivih dokaza njegove krivice.

Although there was proof of his guilt, we believed that he was innocent.

9. Koliko god pokušavao da to uradi, uvek je nailazio na otpor.

No matter how much he tried to do it, he always encountered resistance.

10. Ma koliko je njegovo izvinjenje iskreno, mislim da ono neće biti prihvaćeno.
As sincere as his apology may be, I don't think it will be accepted.

11. Ma koliko pokušavali, nismo mogli da je ubedimo da to ne radi.

As hard as we tried, we could not convince her not to do it.

12. Ma koliko izgledalo teško, mislim da ćeš moći da to uradiš do sutra.

Hard though it might seem, I think you will manage to do it until tomorrow.

Exercise 10 Perfective aspect

1. Ovo je treći put da me neko prekida večeras.

This is the third time I have been interrupted tonight.

2. Neko je pokucao na vrata. To je bio treći put da me je neko prekinuo te večeri.

Someone knocked on the door. It was the third time I had been interrupted that night.

3. Narednog leta idemo na odmor u Tunis. To će biti prvi put da ćemo tamo provesti odmor.
Next summer we are going to Tunisia for vacation. It will be the first time we have spent a
vacation there.

4. Ovo je već treći put da su se kola pokvarila ovog meseca.

 This is already the third time the car has broken down this month.

5. To pitanje mi je postavljeno već više puta.

I had already been asked this question several times.

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