Answer the following questions in accordance with the example given below

Example:Must I type the article now? No, you needn’t. You can type it tomorrow (the day after tomorrow, next week).

  1. Must I bring that question up now?
  2. Must Peter hand in the paper today?
  3. Must he drive to Detroit this week?
  4. Must we finish the work today?
  5. Must they leave the town next week?
  6. Must Mr. Drake talk with the manager now?
  7. Must I phone her at once?

 

4. Rewrite these sentences using “must” or “can’t” and translate them into Russian.

Note: We use must to say that something is logically necessary, or that we suppose it is certain. The negative is cannot or can’t, not must not.

  1. I’m sure she’s at home.
  2. I’m certain you’re crazy.
  3. I know it isn’t Janet. – She’s in America.
  4. I’m sure. She thinks I’m stupid.
  5. I bet I look silly in this coat.
  6. They’re always buying new cars. – I’m certain they make a lot of money.
  7. I’m sure you’re not serious. I know you’re joking.
  8. I’m sure he’s got another woman: he keeps coming home late.

 

5. Notice the use of “must” in reported speech in the following sentences and translate them into Russian.

1. He was white and frightened and ready to weep as she told him that he must go.

2. Because a thing like coal had once been profitable they thought it must always be profitable.

3. She had already decided that she must show the letter to Alan.

4. The way she spoke made me think she was very much in love.

5. He asked where I had picked up such a word. I realized that it must have been a wrong word, but I had read it in some book and liked its sound.

 

6. Remembering that must in the meaning of probability is not used either with reference to the future or in the negative form, find a suitable way of translating the following sentences into English:

1. Я не хочу сдавать экзамены. Меня, вероятно, не будет в Лондоне в это время.

2. Наверное, в его распоряжении никогда раньше не было так много денег.

3. Мартин стал на другую сторону камина. Я подумал, что он, вероятно, не слышал их слов.

4. Он, должно быть, не сумел уговорить его поехать с нами.

5. У него, очевидно, просто не нашлось времени для вас.

6. Они, наверное, не встретили его на станции.

7. Я терпел это так долго, потому что думал, что она меня по-своему любит. Но она, вероятно, никогда не любила меня.

8. «Могу я поговорить с тобой завтра утром?» - «Я, наверное, буду занят».

 

Open the brackets using the appropriate form of the infinitive.

1. Your whole future is concerned: you must (to decide) for yourself.

2. Mary must (to put on) her new dress: I don’t see it in the wardrobe.

3. Peter spent his holiday in Brighton; that’s where he must (to meet) Barbara.

4. The four o’clock bus must (to fail to arrive) on time; otherwise they would already be here.

5. They must (to discuss) some thing important when I came.

6. He must (to leave) the town; I haven’t seen him for a long time.

7. I have herd you are staying in this hotel and I said to myself: I must (to look) him up.

8. Henry was so gloomy that I thought he must (to fail) his exam.

9. Judging by his paleness he must (to work) too hard now.

10. We must (to ride) in the bus for more than half an hour, and we haven’t reached even the suburbs.

11. He must (to live) next door to us for more than a decade, but we only have a nodding acquaintance with him.

12. “People must (to know) things. I consider it my duty to tell them”, said Caroline.

13. You must (to forget) that she married very early.

14. I am sure you must (to know) why he did tell me, I want to know all.

15. They must (to have) a holiday for a week now.

 

8. To practice must make up situations of year own using the following patterns.

1. Должно быть, он…

- болен

- проводит эту ночь в гостинице

- потерял свои ключи

- работает здесь с самого утра

2. Он, должно быть (наверное), будет…

- здесь завтра

- в отпуске в Калифорнии этим летом

- спать, когда мы придём

- ещё в офисе в это время

3. Он, должно быть, не…

- был никогда бедным

- понял нас

- взял эту книгу

- позвонил ей

4. Нельзя…

- так шуметь

- чтобы дети слышали, о чём мы говорим. Закрой дверь, пожалуйста.

- оставаться здесь: может кто-нибудь прийти

5. Пора…

- уходить домой

- навестить Анну

- сообщить ей об этом