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A Grammar of English Practice Book for Law Students
ЕXERCISES
11. The judge insisted that the offender should be punished and
pay for the damage.
12. It is our recommendation that he should not say anything
until the investigation is over.
C
1. It is necessary that you should examine the scene of the
crime.
2. It is desirable these witnesses
be cross-examined without
delay.
3. It is important the evidence should be written down.
4. It is inevitable this candidate be nominated by this party.
5. It was undesirable that this information be given away before
the trial.
6. It is desirable that legal knowledge should become an ele-
ment of education of the younger generation.
7. It is necessary that the police officer have an arrest warrant.
8. Criminal law is guided by the injunction: “What
is important
is not that a crime should be severely punished, but that not a single
crime should pass undiscovered.”
9. It is impossible that the witness should have said that.
10. It was desirable that the accused should get legal aid (finan-
cial help from the state).
11. It is important that offenders should receive the right sen-
tence as it can affect whether they offend in the future.
D
1. Professor N. wished every student took part in the seminar.
2. I wish you had consulted this lawyer for he is very experi-
enced.
3. I wish the interrogation were over.
4. We wish the policeman had apprehended the criminal.
5. I wish this expert had been invited to take part in the inves-
tigation.
6. I wish he were an experienced investigator.
7. I wish she had passed the exam in criminalistics with better
results.
8. I wish you were not so indifferent to what the solicitor says.
9. The public wished the accused had been acquitted.