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Professional Communication Skills Practice Test: Grammar - Transformation from One Form of Sentence to Another
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Sentence transformation  involves changing the form, structure, or type of a sentence while maintaining its original meaning. For example, an interrogative sentence can be transformed into an assertive one without changing its meaning.  Here are some examples of sentence transformations: Simple to complex: Expand a word or phrase into a clause. Complex to simple: Eliminate a clause into a word or phrase. Assertive to exclamatory: Add subject + should. For example, "Do the work" becomes "You should do the work".  Sentence transformations often test direct and indirect speech, comparative... Show more
Professional Communication Skills Practice Test: Grammar - Transformation from One Form of Sentence to Another
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10 Questions

1. Which of these is an assertive sentence?
2. Convert the following compound sentence into a simple sentence :
We must eat, or we cannot live.
3. Which of these conjunctions is not used in the transformation of simple into compound sentences?
4. Which of the conjunctions is used in the following transformation?
Simple : Besides being pretty, she is intelligent.
Compound : Not only is she pretty, but she is also intelligent.
5. A compound sentence can be converted into a simple sentence by substituting a participle for a finite verb.
6. Convert the following exclamatory sentence to an assertive sentence:
Hurrah ! We have one the match.
7. Convert the following simple sentence to a compound sentence :
Besides being rude, he was also arrogant.
8. A simple sentence can be converted into a compound sentence by enlarging a word or a phrase into a co-ordinate clause.
9. Convert the affirmative sentence into a negative sentence:
Mili is prettier than Neha.
10. Convert the following interrogative sentence to an assertive sentence:
Who would not love his country?