Read the text and change the sentences as directed: —
(a) Some essential agricultural inputs are to be ensured to increase our food production. (Make it active)
(b) The farmers who are poor do not get loans on easy terms. (Make it simple)
(c) What a pity! (Make it Assertive)
(d) The farmers do not get the facilities necessary for food production. (Make it complex)
(e) Unfortunately, they do not get the due price of their products. (Make it compound)
(a) We are to ensure some essential agricultural inputs to increase our food production.
(b) Poor farmers do not get loans on easy terms.
(c) It is a great pity.
(d) The farmers do not get the facilities that are necessary for food production.
(e) They do not get the due price for their products and it is unfortunatE-
- Although he is poor, he is honest (Simple)
- Though he tried hard, he failed. (Compound)
- I went there to seek a job. (Compound)
- Jim and Della were as wise as the Magi (Nagative)
- Would that I could fly in the sky ! (Assertive.)
- It is man who is the maker of his own fortune. (Simple)
- He acted on my advice'- complex form of this sentence is-
- Did he see anyone in the room? (assertive)
- He watched the boat ____ down the river.
- Do or die (Make it Simple)
- He tried his best. (Negative)
- There is little milk in the glass. (Interrogative)
- Simple sentence consists of –
- He came home yesterday. Choose the correct interrogative form of the sentence -
- The controlling sentence of a paragraph is known as-
- We are proud of our freedom fighters.(Interrogative)
- I have not heard from him -
- Cricket enjoys a huge ____ in Bangladesh.
- It burns the prettiest of any wood. (Positive)
- We should read books to gain knowledge. (Make it complex)
- He is the best player. (Negative)
- He has a cup of tea every day. (Interrogative)
- There is only a high school at Satkhira (Negative).
- I must go there. (Negative)
- Priyom is only six. (Negative)
- Complete the sentences with suitable phrase/words given in the box.(a) I'm just a little tired. I ---- stay at home than go out tonight.(b) Raihan ---- into wealth. So, he has never had to worry about money.(c) I hear you've started a new job. ---- your new boss ---?(d) The fridge isn't working. ---seems to be a problem with the compressor.(e) We ---- not park the car here. The road is too narrow.(f) A lot of people are going to join the picnic. --- doesn't matter whither he comes or not.(g) The victim is in hospital. Police want to quiz him --- he is well enough.(h) I have never seen a hovercraft. --- it --?(i) I was extremely busy yesterday. I barely had time to take a shower---- cook my own meal.(j) She only received a warning not to drive too fast. She didn't ---- pay a fine.
- Della was too poor to buy a gift for Jim. (Negative)
- Suppose, you are Renu/Rana studying at Dhaka Commerce College. Now, write an application to the Principal of your college to improve computer lab facilities in your college
- Unemployment is a state for a man having no work to earn money. (Complex)
- 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)
- A sentence is a group of words that expresses a complete_____.
- 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)
- In English grammar, ____ deals with formation of sentences.
- Read the text and change the sentences as directed: —We are very much proud of our freedom fighters. (a) They fought for the country with a patriotic zeal. (make it compound) (b) They are the most courageous sons of our nation. (make it positive) (c) Everybody admires and respects them greatly. (make it passive) (d) Nobody denies their contribution to their motherland. (make it interrogative without changing meaning) (e) They will never be forgotten by their countrymen to the end. (make it affirmative)
- I know you. (Complex)
- Though he is poor, he is happy. (Simple)
- Read the text and change the sentences as directed: —(a) Jim and Della sacrificed their dearest possessions in order to buy Christmas presents for each other (Compound). (b) Della had an ardent desire to give her husband a worthy gift (Complex). (c) Jim also thought how he could give his wife a nice gift (Simple). (d) Della saved a scanty amount of money for this (Passive). (e) Jim was one of the sincerest husbands that we have ever known (Positive).
- I must do this. (Negative)