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-
- You must work hard for success (Make it compound).
- Read the text and change the sentences as directed: —(a) Long long ago there was a king who was very wisE- (Make it simple) (b) People called him wise Solomon. (make it passive). (c) Actually at that time he was the wisest of all. (Make it comparative)(d) There was another ruler also named Queen of Sheba. (Make it complex) (e) One day she thought Solomon’s wisdom should not remain untested. (Make it affirmative)
- Cricket is a very exciting game. (Make it Exclamatory)
- Everybody hates a liar. (Interrogative)
- It is health which is _____.
- He tried his best. (Negative)
- He is so weak that he cannot walk. (Simple)
- Let us love our country. (Simple)
- It burns the prettiest of any wood (Positive).
- It is more than honesty. (Make it 'Positive').
- 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."
- Without working hard, you can not succeed. (Compound)
- Although he is poor, he is honest (Simple)
- He is only five. (Negative)
- Read the text and change the sentences as directed: —Dowry is a curse for our society. It darkens the lives of many women. (a) Dowry hampers the peace of the society. (Make it passive) (b) The brutal condition of the dark age must be stopped soon. (Make it active) (c) This is one of the major problems of Bangladesh. (Make it positive) (d) The dowry seekers are very greedy and demand money from bride's father. (Make it simple) (e) What an unworthy crime the dowry is! (Make it Assertive)
- If he does not move, he will die. (Compound)
- 'A child liked only sweets''- Negative form of this sentence is ____
- Besides going to the book fair, I bought a number of books. (Compound)
- "A rolling stone gathers no moss" The complex form of the sentence is–
- Della was too poor to buy a gift for Jim. (Negative)
- I went there to seek a job. (Compound)
- We should read books to gain knowledge. (Make it complex)
- He is poor but he is honest. (Complex)
- What is the function of a topic sentence?
- 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)
- 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)
- Akhi missed the train (Negative).
- Jim and Della were as wise as the Magi (Nagative)
- 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).
- 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)
- A sentence is a group of words that expresses a complete_____.
- Transform the sentences as directed in brackets Cricket is a very exciting game. (Exclamatory)
- I have no pen that I can lend you? (Simple)
- Move and die. (Simple)
- I know where he lives. The sentence is a –
- Water-logging is one of the worst problems in our country. (Positive)
- It is beyond doubt that he is a brave man. (Simple)
- ‘I ____ remember the holiday I spent in your home’, she said.
- Which is the correct form of Assertive of 'Who does not like a rose?'
- I must go there. (Negative)