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H Outside Cardiology near the swing doors on the main corridor...
and then take a stretcher to Ward four, collect a patient and take
him to Radiology... Hello, Porter’s office...
Grammar exercises
1. Find out the absolute participle construction. Translate the
sentences.
1. Everything being ready, we began the transfusion.
2. Ten of the patients were included in the experiment, the two oth-
ers not being operated upon.
3. My friend suffering from a toothache, I advised him to see a den-
tist.
4. The boy being very ill, the family doctor directed him to hospital.
5. There being practically no limitations in the chemico-mechanical
method for the treatment of deep cavities, the product is widely
used in pediatric dentistry.
6. Healing is performed by granulation, evacuation of the fluid con-
tent being the kind of the surgical treatment.
7. The aetiology of the disease being obscure, it may well arise as a
result of the interplay of a number of factors, some of which may
be genetically determined, others being of environmental origin.
8. The material having been used in most situations of caries pres-
ence, it was considered a non-invasive method for caries removal.
9. The ambulance having arrived, the patient was taken to hospital.
10. The new ultrasonic scaling unit combining gentle fast action, min-
imum trauma is possible to tooth structure.
11. The operation was successfully performed, the patient feeling
well.
12. The lungs expanding, the air pressure in them drops and atmos-
pheric air rushes into the lungs through the air passages.
13. The capacity of the thorax decreasing, the lungs become com-
pressed, the pressure in them rises and the air rushes out through
the air passages.
14. There being profuse hemorrhage, the patient was immediately
taken to hospital.
15. The heart is a double pump, the volumes expelled by the right and
left ventricles being the same.