;
Stop shouting. I'm trying to concentrate;
I am listening to you attentively, but I'm afraid you're not telling me the truth;
Heis watching the dancer admiringly;
Charles and Bob are eating the soup she cooked the day before yesterday
и поразмыслите, как странно они будут выглядеть, если поставить их в Indefinite. Некто не может понять, о чем систематически говорит его жена (what do you talk about?), Джон профессионально занят сном (he sleeps), а еще кто-то постоянно, изо дня в день пытается сосредоточиться (I try to concentrate); мистер А регулярно слушает мистера В, а тот ему каждый раз лжет (I listen... but you don't tell me the truth), и совсем плачевная участь Чарльза и Боба, чьим "обычным, постоянным, повторяющимся действием" является поедание позавчерашнего супа (they eat the soup...).
А вот те же самые глаголы в таком контексте, что употребление Indefinite становится необходимым:
Darling, you meet Mr Smith every day. What do you talk to him about?
John sleeps so soundly that he can't hear the alarm clock and always comes to work late.
Every time I try to concentrate, my neighbors start drilling the wall.
Don't ask me to listen to you! I alwayslisten to you attentively, and you nevertell me the truth.
Instead of staying by me at night, my husband goes to the cabaret and watches those dirty dancers!
As vegetarians. Bob and Charles never eat meat. All they eat is vegetable soup and a few carrots.
Упражнения
Раскройте скобки и поставьте глагол либо в PrCont, либо в PrIndf.
1. Don't turn off the light, I (to read).
2. It (to rain) again. Thank God it (not, to snow).
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3. Не never (to come) to work on time.
4. Look. he (to smoke) again! I am afraid he (to smoke) too much.
5. I (not, to think) you're right.
6. You always (to need) money.
7. He usually (to spend) his money on women and liquor.
8. Don't interrupt him, he (to say) sensible things.
9. I (not, to know) how to love him.1
10. Listen, Jesus, I (not, to like) what I see.2
11. What's the buzz? Tell me what (to happen).3
12. Surely you (not, to say) we (to have) the ressources to save the poor from their lot.4
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1. am reading
2. is raining, is not snowing
3. comes
4. is smoking, smokes
5. don't think
6. need
7. spends (Remember Tarzan!)
8. is saying
9. don't know
10. don't like
11. is happening
12. are not saying, have
This isn't cops'n'robbers, Johnny. For Christ's sake don't think it is... It's like controlled nuclear fission, in a way. We could make a mistake and destroy ourselves.
