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.
- 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)
- Without working hard, you can not succeed. (Compound)
- In English grammar, ____ deals with formation of sentences.
- "The garden is very beautiful.' বাক্যটির Exclamatory form হবে-
- ‘We must not be late, else we will miss the train.’ This is a-
- He is the best boy in the class. (Positive)
- I have not heard from him -
- Read the text and change the sentences as directed: —(a) Tea is the most popular drink. (Comparative) (b) Tea helps us remove our fatiguE- (Passive) (c) Almost everyone enjoys tea. (Negative) (d) Bangladesh is one of the tea producing countries. (Compound) (e) Bangladesh exports tea and earns a lot of foreign exchangE- (Simple)
- Identify the imperative sentence:
- Friendship is nothing but a name. (Interrogative)
- It burns the prettiest of any wood (Positive).
- I must do this. (Negative)
- It is more than honesty. (Make it '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)
- Akhi missed the train (Negative).
- ‘Please bring me a cup of tea’ What kind of sentence is this?
- Let us love our country. (Simple)
- There is little milk in the glass. (Interrogative)
- Money is sweeter than honey. (Negative)
- We work hard to earn money. (Compound)