1. You don't have to do it. 2. You have to go back to school. (Salinger) 3. If you gain anything, you will have to fight for it. 4. Times are hard... I have my family to keep. 5. You will have to wait until you hear from me again. (Dreiser) 6. We've got to go to bed. 7. She's not to know about it. (Fitzgerald) 8. Hadn't we better put a little bit of stick or something between each word.? (Kipling) 9. Doris, I've got something to say to you.10. He'd have nothing more to do with the woman and Macomber would get over that too. (Hemingway) 11. ... under my oath I've got to try to catch the criminal. (Saroyan) 12. Shan't we have to risk it? (C.S.Lewis) 13. Well, we've got a little business to talk about, said Boom confidently. (W.Jacobs) 14. All I had to look forward was doing the same old thing day after day. (Maugham) 15. How long did you have to stay there? (F.Cooper) 16. You don't have to be an alcoholic to hurt your baby; you just have to be drinking enough while pregnant. (Alcohol, the Legal Drug) 17. I must write stories and they have to be stories that will sell. (Salinger) 18. Bob has to be on duty at the
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hospital at nine o'clock. (F.King) 19. You have to take it. (Dreiser) 20. She and Diana, have a lot to arrange together. 21. ... you've still got to take it easy. (F.King)
5. Together with the common in both languages modal verbs of generally isomorphic nature there is one that is conspicuous for its usage. This is the synonymous to the modal verb have to English modal verb to be (to) which has some meanings that are realized depending on the form and lexical meaning of the infinitive following it. This modal verb may express obligation or necessity resulting from an arrangement or from a prearranged agreement/plan. The Ukrainian equivalents for these meanings of to be (to) are usually the modal verbs /and even , :
a) Remember, Joe, you are He , ,
to run the laundry according to
those old rules you used to lay ,
down. (London) .
According to the agreement ,
rent was to be paid strictly in ad- ()
vance. (Ibid.) '
.
When to be (to) expresses the meaning of inevitability of some action or event, it is translated into Ukrainian as the modal verb .
If the thing was to happen, it .
was to happen in this way...
(. Wharton) , .
The modal verb to be (to) may also express a meaning corresponding to the Ukrainian stative :
It was to be expected, Mrs. .
Mors said gently. (London) - .
) Sometimes the modal meaning of the verb to be (to) is faithfully conveyed by means of the Ukrainian infinitival predicate of the sentence and the strictly logical position of the parts of the sentence, as in the rhetorical questions below:
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What am I to do now? ?
(Maugham)
How was President Kravchuk
to have won the re-election?
(F.News) ?
d) When expressing order or instruction (usually in reported speech) the modal verb to be (to) is translated into Ukrainian either with the help of the modal verbs /, or with the help of a subordinate clause respectively. For example:
You are to stay in bed until .
you are allowed to get up. (Du (
Maurier) ).
I'm going to tell him he 's not ,
to come to the house any more. /
(W. Jacobs) .
) When expressing possibility, the modal verb to be (to) is translated with the help of the modal verbs , , or with the help of the modal word :
There is a good training to be
had there. (Dreiser) /.
... in the basement of the...
Diggby Avenue, Congregational ij Church, there was to be held social with refreshments. (Ibid.) .
f) When expressing an assumptive or suggested possibility,
the meaning of the modal verb to be (to) is mostly rendered with the
help of a peculiar logical sentence structure. The meaning of the modal
verb to toe (to) in such sentences may have reference either to present
or to future. For example:
I am to have the priviledge of
sitting next to you. (Maugham) ./
.
g) Somewhat clearer is the reference to future, however, when
the modal verb to be (to) is used in the subjunctive mood as in the
underlined conditional clauses below:
If anything were to happen, it -
would cost me my place all right. /().
(Dreiser) .
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If he were to come, he would ,
certainly have arrived already, /
(S.Sheldon) .
There may also be other contextual modal meanings of the verb to be (to) in English, which can be ascertained from the sentences in the given exercise below.
