Complete the sentences with suitable phrase/words given in the box.

(a) Selina cannot afford to buy a cell phone----, a laptop. Actually, she is very poor.
(b) It may rain today. You---- leave earlier.
(c) ----is many years since we first meet. How time does fly!
(d) His mother being sick, he needs go to home---- possible.'
(e) We----develop our humanity than observe hartal and 'strike. Let us change our destructive culture.
(f) ----- have been significant changes in the field of entertainment.
(g) Shakespeare was a versatile genius. He--- in 1564.
(h) honesty ----? It is the best quality in-life.
(i) A good citizen ---- perform a lot of things...
(j) ----- the national flower of Bangladesh ----?
a) let alone; b) had better; c) It; d) as soon as; e) would rather; f) There; g) was born; h) What's...like; i) has to; j) What does....look like.
- He gave me a dress which was expensive. (Simple)
- ‘I ____ remember the holiday I spent in your home’, she said.
- I had a nice dream last night (Interrogative).
- I wish I were an ideal teacher. (Exclamatory)
- Friendship is nothing but a name. (Interrogative)
- Cricket enjoys a huge ____ in Bangladesh.
- Belal is the best boy in the class. (Comparative)
- Read the text and change the sentences as directed: —Anger is nothing but a vicE- (a) It begets only the worst. (Negative) (b) Anger is one of the most inhuman vices. (Positive) (c) So, we should control it for our own sakE- (Passive) (d) He who is taken by anger causes a lot of troubles. (Simple) (e) Realizing it, we should try to be emotionally balanced. (Complex)
- Read the text and change the sentences as directed: —(a) Water, an important, vital element of environment, is polluted in various ways (complex). It is called lifE- (b) The water which is pure is necessary for us (simple). (c) Men pollute water by throwing waste in it (compound). (d) The farmers use water in time of cultivation largely (passive). (e) It is one of the most important elements of all living beings (positive).
- You must work hard for success (Make it compound).
- Water-logging is one of the worst problems in our country. (Positive)
- Writing is better than reading' - Negative form of this sentence is -
- Let us love our country. (Simple)
- Mango is one of the sweetest fruits in the world. (Comparative)
- He is so weak that he cannot walk. (Simple)
- Would that I could fly in the sky ! (Assertive.)
- Priyom is only six. (Negative)
- We work hard to earn money. (Compound)
- It is health which is _____.
- Without working hard, you cannot shine in life. (Make it complex sentence)
- Read the text and change the sentences as directed: —(a) Tell me your agE- (Complex) (b) Some poets are at least as great as Tennyson. (Superlative) (c) What though the field be lost? (Assertive) (d) My watch was lost. (Active) (e) He confessed that he was guilty. (Simple)
- It is man who is the maker of his own fortune. (Simple)
- Simple sentence consists of –
- Transform the underlined parts of the following text as per direction: —(a) "Beautiful! Isn't she ?" Tanvir whispered. (Make it assertive) (b) Tania nodded in agreement, but she was extremely nervous . (Make it complex) (c) The tigress was now quite close to them . (Make it interrogative) Tania's heart was pounding, but Tanvir seemed oblivious to any danger. (d) He got closer to the animal and pressed the shutter button with a boyish grin in the face . (Make it simple) (e) And it suddenly occurred to Tania that her husband was the strongest man she had ever met . (Use the positive degree of the adjective)
- Over-flooding is one of the worst problems in our country. (Positive)
- Suppose, , last week you purchased a watch from Ridcoh Watch Co. Ltd. But it is not functioning well and often stops. Now, write a letter to the manager 'requesting him to replace it with a new and perfect one
- The tea is so hot that I cannot drink it. (Simple.)
- Identify the imperative sentence:
- Read the following text and use modifiers as directed in the blank spaces.Socrates, (a)----(post modify the noun with an appositive), believed that an angry man was more of a beast than, a (b)----(use adjective to pre modify the noun) being. His wife used to lose (c) ---- (use possessive to pre-modify the noun) temper on the slightest excuse. She tried her utmost (d) ---- (use an infinitive to post-modify the noun phrase) Socrates. (e) ---- (use quantifier to pre modify the noun) day the woman became more furious than ever. She began to insult (f) --- (use determiner to pre-modify the noun) great scholar of Greece. Socrates went (g) --- (post modify the verb with an adverbial of place). He sat on the (h) --- (use a noun adjective to pre-modify the noun) step of his house. The wife found that her husband was (i) ---(use intensifier to pre-modify the adjective) callous to her words. So, she went up to him with bucket full of water and suddenly she poured much water over him. He (j)----(pre-modify the verb) remarked, "I am expecting this. After thunder, comes rain."
- Every man must die. (Interrogative)
- There is only a high school at Satkhira (Negative).
- Corruption is one of the worst evils. (Positive)
- Although he is poor, he is honest (Simple).
- Read the text and change the sentences as directed: —Bangladeshi developers can build modern robots like Sophia using its softwarE- (a) The humanoid robot, Sophia is one of the newest sensations in the ICT world. (Make it positive) (b) Honourable Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina met Sophia, at the inaugural ceremony of the four-day-long digital world expo. (Make it passive) (c) The Hong Kong-based Robotics Company developed Sophia, one and a half year ago. (Make it complex) (d) Wearing a yellow Jamdani top and skirt, the robot came on the stagE- (Make it compound). (e) What an enthusiasm the robot generated among the youth! (Make it affirmative)
- All men must die' _______ Negative form of this sentence is ________
- It is more than honesty. (Make it 'Positive').
- Read the text and change the sentences as directed: —(a) It was 1971 when Bangladesh achieved independencE- (Simple) (b) It is the most significant event in the history of Bangladesh. (Comparative) (c) Our Freedom Fighters sacrificed their lives for the independence of Bangladesh. (Complex) (d) It was a great struggle for them. (Exclamatory) (e) We shall always remember them with pridE- (Compound)
- I have not heard from him -
- Which of the following sentences is the correct one?