Grammar Questions: ICSE, EVERGREEN

 

TOPIC:1  CHANGE THE VOICE

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TOPIC: 2 DEGREE OF COMPARISON OF ADJECTIVES

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TOPIC:3 TRANSFORMATION OF SENTENCES

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TOPIC: 4  DIRECT & INDIRECT SPEECH

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Assignment 1

1. Tom said that he wanted to visit his friends that weekend.

2.Jerry said that he was studying English a lot at the moment.

3.They said that they had lived there for a long time.

4. He asked me if I had finished reading the newspaper.

5.Peter said that he gets up every morning at seven O'clock.

6. Susan reassured me that he/she could go that night.

7. She said that she really wished to have bought that new car.

Or, Or she expressed her wish that she had bought that new car.

8. Jack said that he had to be guilty.

Or, Jack said that he must be guilty.

9.Cheryl asked her how long she had lived there.

10.He said that he had to / must get going otherwise he was going to be late.

11. She said that she had worked there since she had left her last job.

12.You said that you would help me/him.

13.She asked me when they were going to leave.

14. Peter said that he might bring someone

with him to the party. 

15.My friend said that he would have finished his homework by the time I arrived.

16.Mark asked me why I wanted to study Russian.

*Teacher said to the students " Why don't you study regularly? "

Teacher asked the students why they did not study regularly..

17.Marcia said that she had been waiting for me for over an hour.

18.Allison said that she had eaten before I / he had arrived.

19. Lenny spoke in a singsong voice that he wanted to get away as well as fly away.

Or,Or Lenny spoke singing that he wanted to get away as well as fly away.

20. Jason asked me if / whether I was going with him.

21. The teacher told the boys that he/she would prove then that the earth is round.

22. Jason says that he would like to become an astronaut.

23.Or The captain says if the rain stops, the match will be continued.

24. The contractor said that he couldn't regularly visit the site for inspection.

25.The citizens demanded that the authorities should take adequate steps to check road encroachment.

TOPIC 5: COMBINATION OF SENTENCES

A. Making complex Sentences using Noun Clauses:

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B. Making complex Sentences using Adjective Clauses:

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C. Making complex Sentences using Adverb Clauses:

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D. Making complex Sentences using Relative pronouns and Relative adverbs:

E. Making complex Sentences using Miscellaneous Ways:

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A. Making compound sentences using "and, as well as, not only.... but also, both ..... and"

B. Making compound sentences using "so, therefore, hence, for"

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C. Making compound sentences using "or, else, otherwise, either...or, neither...nor"

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D. Making compound sentences using "but, still, yet, however, nevertheless, all the same"

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JOIN THE SENTENCES AS DIRECTED.

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TOPIC: 6

ASSIGNMENTS IN TRANSFORMATION OF SENTENCES

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Q. 3.....20

2. A wise man will not repeat his mistakes. 

3. No other tidal wave, the world has ever known is as great as this one. 

The world has never known as great a tidal wave as this one. 

4. Egypt is not as cool as England. 

5. Unless Kumble improves his technique, he will be excluded from the team. 

6. It is advisable that you should not take that route. ( Complex ) 

( Simple ) It is advisable on your part not to take that route. 

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It is advisable to you not to take that route. ( Simple )

Q. This sum is so easy that anyone can solve it. 

Ans. This sum is too easy not to solve.

Q. I was so tired that I could not play. 

Ans. I was too tired to play. 

9. ( Using surprise ) His excellent performance took everyone in surprise. 

His excellence in performance surprised everyone. 

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His performance of excellence surprised everyone. 

10. Your efforts are not meaningful. 

11. Soon hatred changed into affinity/love. 

12. I was too sure not to trust him. 

I was so sure that I didn't doubt him. 

13. Your efforts have not borne any fruit. 

14. He is the fattest person in that group. 

15. Either better yourself or leave the job.16. The conversation was broken by him to remind us that it was time for another meeting. 

17. The boat turned over and threw all of us into the raging water. 

18. Dictatorship is not as good a form of government as Democracy. 

19. Business without adequate investment is not useful. 

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Business with adequate investment is useful. 

20. He is very obedient to his teachers.

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5. We did not enjoy ourselves because it was not cooler. 

6. Snakes petrify her. 

7. Although he worked hard, he failed. 

8. Nothing else /no other thing should be of as great a value to mankind as this. 

9. Your offer is acceptable to me. 

10. How beautiful the dress you are wearing is. 

11. Owing to illness, I couldn't play in the match. 

12. As he was a pessimist, he did not take up the offer. 

13. Does he believe in the existence of God?

14. She asked Ravi to wash his clothes and go to her at once. 

15. Who was the substitute for the cashier after he absconded?

TOPIC 7: CORRECT FORM OF THE VERBS

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