Let vs. allow, permit, enable

1.Translate the sentences.

1. The lever opened up a valve whichlet some waterflow out.

2. Early earthquake information could feed directly into the new active-response building designs that change the mechanical properties of a structure to let it ride out shaking and minimize damage both inside and out.

3. The devices being made are too big to be allowed to roam freely around the human body.

4. We're already in the early stages of augmenting and replacing each of our organs, even portions of our brains with neural implants, the most recent versions of which allowpatientsto downloadnew software to their implants from outside their bodies.

4. One of the most interesting parts of emerging solar technology is a tracking system design, which allows the panels to tilt and follow the sun as it travels across the sky, much as a sunflower does.

5. The access to cheap computing power haspermitted scientists to work on many of the hard

problems that are fundamental to making robots practical.

6. Today’s supercomputers run hot, thanks to power-hungry microprocessors that enable sophisticated scientific research and complex financial transactionsto be performed in the blink of an eye.

7. The machine-learning technology will enable playersto do things such as kick a digital soccer ball or swat a handball in their living rooms simply by mimicking the motion.

8. One approach to handling concurrency is to write multithreaded programs that allow data to travel along many paths.

9. The U.S. government is launching a $50-million effort to enable supercomputer-powered climate models to deliver regional impacts.

10. We abandoned that model because it allowed information to be communicated faster than the speed of light.

2. Make and write down sentences of your own.

Ex.: The new technique enabled us to achieve the needed result.

Think, believe, consider, know, etc.

1.Translate the sentences.

1. Man also discovered how to plant crops gathering seed from wild plants, which he knew to be useful.

2. Particle physicistsconsider the weak force in our universe to be not weak enough.

3. We associate such a meaning with the data, and expecta generic operation to take on a meaning determined by the meaning of its operands

4. One of the earliest particle theories was described in the Book of Optics (1021) by Alhazen, who held light rays to be streams of minute particles that "lack all sensible qualities except energy.

5. Today few people consider expert systems to be real artificial intelligence.

6. Whatever the control unit "believes" to bean order or to be data is treated as such.

Require, demand

1.Translate the sentences.

1. At the same time modular compilation drasti­cally reduces compile times by not requiring each rule in every module to be compared with every rule in every other module when determining scheduling conflicts.

2. Fusion demands industry to develop technologies which are beyond the frontiers of standard engineering practices in many fields.

3. The book highlights the bits that did not quite fit and upheavals in human thoughts thatwere required to solve the puzzles that presented.

Want

1. Study the sentence.

I want other people to examine the theory and to improve it.

1. Who wants it to be done?

2. Who will do it?

3. Write three sentences in the Complex Object with the verb make.

2. Translate some more sentences.

1. What other business do you see in the U.S. economy where you expecta company that has a good business model to spend and to invest a lot of money to use less of their product?

2. Man also discovered how to plant crops gathering seed from wild plants, which he knew to be useful.

3. The suspension of funding may leadsome scientists to abandon the effort.

4. What other business do you see in the U.S. economy where you expecta company that has a good business model to spend and to invest a lot of money to use less of their product?

5. As one example, nanotechnology-based manufacturing will enable us to apply computerized techniques to automatically assemble complex products at the molecular level.

6. We expectthereto be some impact on ocean current circulation.

Use of theVingform in the Complex Object

1. Study the structure of the following sentence.

We have seenKepler’s vision of the music of spheres echoing in the intricate braiding of Saturn’s rings.

1.What makes this sentence different from all the previous ones?

2.Has the action in the Complex Object been completed?

2. Read the sentence.

The ability to look father back in our Universe’s history than before, andsee it evolving, is of fundamental importance and Hubble allowed this to happen.

1. Compare the two cases of the Complex Object in the sentence above.

2. Explain the use of the Ving form and the Infinitive in each case.