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) "She is very beautiful."
(b) Though Tania nodded in agreement, she was extremely nervous.
(c) Wasn’t the tigress now quite close to them?
(d) Getting closer to the animal, he pressed the shutter button with a boyish grin in the facE-
(e) No other man she had ever met was as strong as her husband.
- I know him better than you. (Positive)
- I went there to seek a job. (Compound)
- ‘Please bring me a cup of tea’ What kind of sentence is this?
- Select the right compound structure of the sentence: “Though he is poor, he is honest”.
- Besides going to the book fair, I bought a number of books. (Compound)
- If he does not move, he will die. (Compound)
- Everybody knows this. (Interrogative)
- 'I know you.' Choose the complex form-
- I know where he lives. The sentence is a –
- Move or die. (Simple)
- Jim and Della were as wise as the Magi (Nagative)
- I had a nice dream last night (Interrogative).
- He came home yesterday. Choose the correct interrogative form of the sentence -
- 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)
- We are proud of our freedom fighters.(Interrogative)
- 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).
- Every mother loves her child. (Negative)
- Only the moon was visible. (Negative)
- Though he tried hard, he failed. (Compound)
- 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."