Transformation of sentence - English-see.blogspot

-
Changing a sentence from one grammatical form to another without changing its meaning is known as transformation of sentence.
  • Interchanging  Affirmative and Negative Sentence
Rule of Work
1. Remove adverb "too" and put "so......that"
    Repeat the subject
    Cannot/Could not according to the tense
Example: 
Affirmative: He is too weak to walk.
Negative: He is so weak that he cannot walk.
Affirmative: She is too intelligent to fool.
Negative: She is so intelligent that she cannot be fooled.
2. For superlative degrees in Affirmative, use No other ............ as + positive degree
Example: 
Affirmative: Napoleon was the greatest European general.
Negative: No other European general was as great as Napoleon.
3. For comparative degree, use as + positive degree + as
Example: 
Affirmative: Abhishek is better than any other  boy in the class.
Negative: No other boy in the class is as good as Abhishek.
4. Replace phrases such as "As soon as","Hardly", "Scarcely" etc. in the affirmative with "No sooner had......than".
Example:
Affirmative: As soon as the police arrived, the robbers fled away.
Negative: No sooner had the police arrived than the robbers fled away.
Affirmative: They jumped as soon as the boat reached the shore.
Negative: No sooner had the boat reached the shore than they jumped.
5. Use double negative
Example: 
Affirmative: Please remember me.
Negative: Please do not forget me.
Affirmative: I agree with you.
Negative: I do not disagree with you.
6. Replace "Only" in the affirmative with "None but" (if person) and "Nothing but" (if things) in the negative.
Example:
Affirmative: Only a fool can say so.
Negative: None but a fool can say so.
Affirmative: Only light can travel so fast.
Negative: Nothing but light can travel so fast.
  • Interchanging Assertive and Interrogative Sentence
Rule of Work:
Positive Sentence - Negative Question
Negative Sentence - Positive Question
Example:
Negative Sentence: One swallow does not make a summer.
Positive Question : Does one swallow make a summer?
Positive Sentence: Everyone loves his motherland.
Negative Question: Who does not love his motherland?
  • Interchanging Assertive and Exclamatory Sentence
Exclamatory: What a nice picture!
Assertive: It is a very nice picture.
Exclamatory: Oh! That I were young again.
Assertive: I wish that I were young again.
Exclamatory: Alas! Our beloved leader is dead.
Assertive: It is very sad that our beloved leader is dead.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Adjectives - English-see.blogspot

-
Image
Look at the following sentences and observe the words in bold letters. It was a very hot summer. A lion was taking rest under a tree. A tiny mouse was so hungry and it was running all around searching food. It didn't notice the lion and ran over him. The lion was disturbed. Angrily, the lion placed his large paw on the small creature. What did you understand? These words point out the noun placed  after them. They describe them. They give additional information about the nouns they describe. For example tiny mouse tells us that the mouse was small in size. Large paw describes the paw of the lion that it was relatively great in size. Definition of Adjective: A word placed before a noun which tells us about the qualities of the noun or describes it, is known as Adjective. Types of Adjectives: Adjectives of Quality Adjectives of Quantity Adjectives of Number Demonstrative Adjectives Interrogative Adjectives Possessive Adjectives Adjectives of Quality:  They are used to describe...
Read more

Tenses (Present, Past and Future Tense)

-
Image
Tense means the indication of a point of time which refers to the action happened, happens or will happen. There are three types of tenses in English. i. Present tense ii. Past tense iii. Future tense Present Tense Each of the types of tenses has four different forms. Present Indefinite Tense Present Progressive (Continuous) Tense Present Perfect Tense Present Perfect Progressive (Continuous) Present Indefinite Tense The  present indefinite  tense, also known as simple present tense, states a stative or habitual or true action. Generally simple present tense is used to indicate an action which happens –  always, regularly, every day, daily, normally, generally, usually, occasionally, sometimes, often, rarely, frequently, nowadays, naturally, seldom, constantly, never, every a week, every year, once a year, on a week, at times, at present, now and then, or all the time. Sentence structure: Subject (3rd person singular) + main verb+s/es (5th form). Subject (except 3rd perso...
Read more