VIII. Point out the sentences where the -ing forms are used as nouns and translate them. 1. Swimming is very useful for our health. 2. Understanding the symptoms you can diagnose diseases. 3. The students translating texts used dictionaries. 4. The doctor told us about methods preventing heart diseases. 5. He is preparing a paper on infectious diseases. 6. Don’t be afraid of meeting him. 7. Vitamins are very effective in improving our health. 8. Feeling bad he could not go with us. 9. The findings included in the report were very important. 10. I read an interesting article published in a medical journal. 11. The questions were connected with the publishing of his new book. 12. Translating the text the students came across some difficulties. 13. The approaching car will take the patient to the hospital. 14. Take this medicine before sleeping. 15. Biochemistry studies the chemistry of living tissue. 16. His being at the conference was quite unexpected.
The students translating texts used dictionaries. - Students who were translating texts used dictionaries.The doctor told us about methods preventing heart diseases. - The doctor told us about methods that prevent heart diseases.He is preparing a paper on infectious diseases. - He is preparing a paper about infectious diseases.Feeling bad he could not go with us. - He felt bad that he could not go with us.I read an interesting article published in a medical journal. - I read an interesting article that was published in a medical journal.The questions were connected with the publishing of his new book. - The questions were connected with the act of publishing his new book.Translating the text the students came across some difficulties. - While translating the text, the students came across some difficulties.His being at the conference was quite unexpected. - It was quite unexpected that he was at the conference.