Transformation of Sentences — Chapter Summary
ICSE · Class 8 · English Language: Grammar and Composition
Summary of Transformation of Sentences for ICSE Class 8 English Language: Grammar and Composition. Transformation of sentences means changing a sentence.
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Overview
Transformation of sentences means changing a sentence from one form into another without changing its basic meaning. The main sentence types covered are too...to and so/such...that forms, affirmative and negative sentences, interrogative and assertive sentences, exclamatory and assertive sentences,
Key Concepts
This pattern shows excess or incapacity
This pattern shows excess or incapacity. It is changed into the so/such...that form. The structure is: too + adjective/adverb + to + verb = so/such +
This is a complex sentence
This is a complex sentence. The subordinate clause depends on the tense of the main clause.
An affirmative sentence can be changed
An affirmative sentence can be changed into a negative one by using a word of opposite meaning after a negative word, using double negatives, making t
Some interrogative sentences are used
Some interrogative sentences are used for emphasis and can be changed into assertive form. An affirmative question implies a negative statement, and a
Exclamatory sentences often begin with how
Exclamatory sentences often begin with how, what, O, O that, would that, if only, or alas. When changed into assertive form, normal word order is used
Learning Objectives
- Understand how a sentence can be rewritten in different forms without changing meaning.
- Transform too...to sentences into so/such...that sentences.
- Change affirmative sentences into negative ones and negative sentences into affirmative ones.
- Convert some interrogative sentences into assertive form and vice versa.
- Rewrite exclamatory sentences as assertive sentences and assertive sentences as exclamatory ones.
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