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Lesson Objectives
- Understand the concept of sentence transformation and its purpose in English grammar.
- Identify and convert assertive sentences into interrogative, imperative, and exclamatory forms.
- Transform affirmative sentences into their negative counterparts correctly.
- Convert active voice sentences into passive voice while maintaining proper tense and subject-verb agreement.
- Transform positive degree sentences into comparative and superlative degrees effectively.
- Enhance grammatical flexibility and sentence construction skills.
- Apply transformation rules through practical examples and exercises.
Sentence Transformation Exercise
- Assertive to Interrogative: She is your sister.
- Assertive to Interrogative: They have completed the project.
- Assertive to Interrogative: Every mother loves her child.
- Assertive to Interrogative: He was playing in the field.
- Assertive to Interrogative: She can dance well.
- Assertive to Interrogative: He is a great leader.
- Assertive to Interrogative: Every mother loves her child.
- Assertive to Interrogative: Nobody loves a hypocrite.
- Assertive to Interrogative: None has imagined that.
- Assertive to Imperative: You should close the door.
- Assertive to Imperative: You must listen to your teacher.
- Assertive to Imperative: You need to water the plants daily.
- Imperative to Assertive: You shouln't/mustn't do it.
- Assertive to Imperative: You ought to respect the rules.
- Assertive to Imperative: You should keep your room clean.
- Assertive to Imperative: Please open the door.
- Assertive to Exclamatory: It is a wonderful evening.
- Assertive to Exclamatory: She is very beautiful.
- Assertive to Exclamatory: It was an exciting match.
- Assertive to Exclamatory: The sunset is lovely.
- Assertive to Exclamatory: The child is extremely clever.
- Assertive to Exclamatory: It was a very exciting day.
- Affirmative to Negative: He always comes on time.
- Affirmative to Negative: He is only 25 years old.
- Affirmative to Negative: I like mangoes.
- Affirmative to Negative: She speaks English fluently.
- Affirmative to Negative: They know the answer.
- Affirmative to Negative: God saves only the honest people.
God does not save the dishonest people / God saves none but the honest people. - Affirmative to Negative: He is very generous.
- Affirmative to Negative: It costs only 4000 taka.
- Affirmative to Negative: We must do it.
- Affirmative to Negative: I went to Khulna last month for the last time.
- Affirmative to Negative: I am going to do it for the last time.
- Affirmative to Negative: All but he has bought a car.
- Affirmative to Negative: Rohan and Rohit played football.
- Affirmative to Negative: There are many students in the class.
- Affirmative to Negative: There is much water in the jar.
- Affirmative to Negative: Jamal and Kamal are the best batsmen in the world.
- Affirmative to Negative: Jamal and Kamal are better than any other batsmen in the world.
- Affirmative to Negative: He is too weak to walk.
- Active to Passive: She wrote a letter.
- Active to Passive: They are cleaning the room.
- Affirmative to Negative: They annoyed him.
- Active to Passive: She knows him.
- Active to Passive: The jar contains some water.
- Active to Passive: He will complete the work.
- Active to Passive: The chef will be cooking the meal.
- Active to Passive: The manager will have approved the request.
- Affirmative to Negative: I went to Khulna last month for the last time.
- Active to Passive: The panic will surely seize us.
- Active to Passive: Her honesty has pleased me.
- Active to Passive: Their performance disappointed us.
- Active to Passive: Mango tastes sour.
- Active to Passive: Do you play cricket?
- Active to Passive: Who has broken the glass?
By whom has the glass been broken? - Active to Passive: Why have you done it?
Why has it been done by you? - Active to Passive: When were you doing this?
- Imperative to Assertive: Do your job seriously.
- Imperative to Assertive: Please read this book.
- Active to Passive: Let me do it.
- Active to Passive: May our president help our poor people.
- Positive to Comparative and Superlative: He is a tall boy.
- Positive to Comparative and Superlative: This book is interesting.
- Positive to Comparative and Superlative: She is a kind girl.
- Positive to Comparative and Superlative: The road is narrow.
- Positive to Comparative and Superlative: It is a good movie.
- Mixed Transformation: She is my best friend. (Assertive to Interrogative)
- Mixed Transformation: You must apologize. (Assertive to Imperative)
- Mixed Transformation: It was a fantastic movie. (Assertive to Exclamatory)
- Mixed Transformation: He loves playing cricket. (Affirmative to Negative)
- Mixed Transformation: She was a brave girl. (Assertive to Exclamatory)
Answers
- Assertive to Interrogative: She is your sister.
Q: Isn't she your sister?
A: Yes, she is. - Assertive to Interrogative: They have completed the project.
Q: Haven't they completed the project?
A: Yes, they have. - Assertive to Interrogative: Every mother loves her child.
Q: Doesn't every mother love her child?
A: Yes, every mother does. - Assertive to Interrogative: He was playing in the field.
Q: Wasn't he playing in the field?
A: Yes, he was. - Assertive to Interrogative: She can dance well.
Q: Can't she dance well?
A: Yes, she can. - Assertive to Interrogative: He is a great leader.
Q: Isn't he a great leader?
A: Yes, he is. - Assertive to Interrogative: Every mother loves her child.
Q: Doesn't every mother love her child?
A: Yes, she does. - Assertive to Interrogative: Nobody loves a hypocrite.
Q: Doesn't anybody love a hypocrite? / Who doesn't hate a hypocrite
A: No, nobody does. - Assertive to Interrogative: None has imagined that.
Q: Has anyone imagined that? / Who hasn't imagined that?
A: No, none has. - Assertive to Imperative: You should close the door.
Close the door. - Assertive to Imperative: You must listen to your teacher.
Listen to your teacher. - Assertive to Imperative: You need to water the plants daily.
Water the plants daily. - Imperative to Assertive: You shouln't/mustn't do it.
Don't ever do it. - Assertive to Imperative: You ought to respect the rules.
Respect the rules. - Assertive to Imperative: You should keep your room clean.
Keep your room clean. - Assertive to Imperative: Please open the door.
You are requested to open the door. - Assertive to Exclamatory: It is a wonderful evening.
What a wonderful evening it is! - Assertive to Exclamatory: She is very beautiful.
How beautiful she is! - Assertive to Exclamatory: It was an exciting match.
What an exciting match it was! - Assertive to Exclamatory: The sunset is lovely.
How lovely the sunset is! - Assertive to Exclamatory: The child is extremely clever.
How clever the child is! - Assertive to Exclamatory: It was a very exciting day.
What an exciting day it was! - Affirmative to Negative: He always comes on time.
He never comes late. - Affirmative to Negative: He is only 25 years old.
He is not more than 25 years old. - Affirmative to Negative: I like mangoes.
I do not dislike mangoes. - Affirmative to Negative: She speaks English fluently.
She does not speak English poorly. - Affirmative to Negative: They know the answer.
They do not lack the answer. - Affirmative to Negative: God saves only the honest people.
God does not save the dishonest people / God saves none but the honest people. - Affirmative to Negative: He is very generous.
He is not stingy. - Affirmative to Negative: It costs only 4000 taka.
It does not cost more than 4000 taka. - Affirmative to Negative: We must do it.
We must not avoid doing it / We cannot but do it. - Affirmative to Negative: I went to Khulna last month for the last time.
I did not go to Khulna last month again / I have not gone to Khulna again since then. - Affirmative to Negative: I am going to do it for the last time.
I am not going to do it again / I will never do it. - Affirmative to Negative: All but he has bought a car.
No one / none but he has bought a car. - Affirmative to Negative: Rohan and Rohit played football.
Rohan and Rohit did not avoid playing football / Not only Rohan but also Rohit played football. - Affirmative to Negative: There are many students in the class.
There are not few students in the class. - Affirmative to Negative: There is much water in the jar.
There is not little water in the jar. - Affirmative to Negative: Jamal and Kamal are the best batsmen in the world.
Jamal and Kamal are not the worst batsmen in the world./ No other batsmen in the world are as good as Jamal and kamal. - Affirmative to Negative: Jamal and Kamal are better than any other batsmen in the world.
No other batsmen in the world are better than Jamal and Kamal. - Affirmative to Negative: He is too weak to walk.
He is not strong enough to walk. / He is so weakthat he cannot walk. - Active to Passive: She wrote a letter.
A letter was written by her. - Active to Passive: They are cleaning the room.
The room is being cleaned by them. - Affirmative to Negative: They annoyed him.
He was not unannoyed with them. - Active to Passive: She knows him.
He is known to her. - Active to Passive: The jar contains some water.
Some water is contained in the jar. - Active to Passive: He will complete the work.
The work will be completed by him. - Active to Passive: The chef will be cooking the meal.
The meal will be being cooked by the chef. - Active to Passive: The manager will have approved the request.
The request will have been approved by the manager. - Affirmative to Negative: I went to Khulna last month for the last time.
I did not go to Khulna last month again. / I haven't never gone to khulna since then. - Active to Passive: The panic will surely seize us.
We will surely be seized with the panic panic. - Active to Passive: Her honesty has pleased me.
I have beenpleased with her honesty. - Active to Passive: Their performance disappointed us.
We were dissapointed with their performance. - Active to Passive: Mango tastes sour.
Mango is sour when it is tested. - Active to Passive: Do you play cricket?
Is cricket played by you? - Active to Passive: Who has broken the glass?
By whom has the glass been broken? - Active to Passive: Why have you done it?
Why has it been done by you? - Active to Passive: When were you doing this?
When was this being done by you? - Imperative to Assertive: Do your job seriously.
You should do your job carelessly. - Imperative to Assertive: Please read this book.
You are requested to read this book. - Active to Passive: Let me do it.
.I should be allowed to do it. - Active to Passive: May our president help our poor people.
May our poor people be helped by our president. - Positive to Comparative and Superlative: He is a tall boy.
He is taller than many boys.
He is the tallest boy. - Positive to Comparative and Superlative: This book is interesting.
This book is more interesting than that one.
This is the most interesting book. - Positive to Comparative and Superlative: She is a kind girl.
She is kinder than others.
She is the kindest girl. - Positive to Comparative and Superlative: The road is narrow.
The road is narrower than the other.
The road is the narrowest. - Positive to Comparative and Superlative: It is a good movie.
It is a better movie than the others.
It is the best movie. - Mixed Transformation: She is my best friend. (Assertive to Interrogative)
Isn't she my best friend? - Mixed Transformation: You must apologize. (Assertive to Imperative)
Apologize at once. - Mixed Transformation: It was a fantastic movie. (Assertive to Exclamatory)
What a fantastic movie it was! - Mixed Transformation: He loves playing cricket. (Affirmative to Negative)
He does not hate playing cricket. - Mixed Transformation: She was a brave girl. (Assertive to Exclamatory)
How brave she was!
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