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Общелингвистические обсуждения / Re: Европейские уровни А2, В1…
« on: 18 September 2020, 16:13:57 »С т.з. грамматики текст вообще на уровне А2Вот забавная заметка из анлийской газеты 80-х гг. 19 в. (цитирую по Т. Расторгуева «Очерки по исторической грамматике английского языка» М. 1989). Чтобы оценить юмор, грамматику надо знать на уровне В1–В2.
Old Gentleman. Are there any houses building in your village?
Young Lady. No Sir, there is a new house being built for Mr. Smith, but it is the carpenters who are building.
G. True, I sit corrected. To be building is certainly a different thing from to be being built. And how long has Mr. Smith’s house been being built?
L. (looks puzzled for a moment and then answers rather abruptly) Near a year.
G. How much longer do you think it will be being built?
L. (explosively) Don’t know.
G. I should think Mr. Smith would be annoyed by its being so long being built, for the house he now occupies being old, he must leave it, and the new one being only being built, instead of being built as he expected. He cannot…(here the gentleman perceived that the lady had disappeared).