English Grammar Exercises: Mastering Sentence Transformation

Exercise 21

Original: I don’t like this food as much as you do.
Transformed: You like this food more than I do.

Exercise 22

Original: What particularly impressed me was her accent-free pronunciation.
Transformed: I was particularly impressed by her accent-free pronunciation.

Exercise 23

Original: The result of the match was never in doubt.
Transformed: At no time was the result of the match doubted.

Exercise 24

Original: This will be the orchestra’s first performance outside London.
Transformed: This will be the first time the orchestra has performed outside London.

Exercise 25

Original: How long has this roof been leaking?
Transformed: When did the roof start to leak?

Exercise 26

Original: A waiter spilled soup over Lydia’s new dress last night.
Transformed: Lydia had soup spilled over her new dress by a waiter last night.

Exercise 27

Original: I haven’t heard from home recently.
Transformed: My family hasn’t written to me recently.

Exercise 28

Original: I suppose you didn’t enjoy that party very much, did you?
Transformed: You can’t have enjoyed that party very much, can you?

Exercise 29

Original: It’s a good thing I had my cheque-book on me. We would have been in trouble otherwise.
Transformed: If I hadn’t had my cheque-book on me, we would have been in trouble.

Exercise 30

Original: It would be a good idea if you went and asked her yourself.
Transformed: You’d better go and ask her yourself.

Exercise 31

Original: The violent criticism of the Prime Minister was quite unjustified.
Transformed: There was no justification for the violent criticism of the Prime Minister.

Exercise 32

Original: Whose is that car outside the gate?
Transformed: Who does that car outside the gate belong to?

Exercise 33

Original: If it doesn’t rain soon, a lot of our crops will be lost.
Transformed: Unless it rains soon, we will lose a lot of our crops.

Exercise 34

Original: It won’t make any difference if it rains because we’ll still go.
Transformed: We will still go whether it rains or not.

Exercise 35

Original: I would do anything in the world for him.
Transformed: There’s nothing in the world I wouldn’t do for him.

Exercise 36

Original: Veronica remembered and so did Dorothy.
Transformed: Veronica didn’t forget, and neither did Dorothy.

Exercise 37

Original: Aren’t they ever going to bring us the breakfast I ordered for 8 o’clock?
Transformed: Aren’t we going to be brought the breakfast I ordered for 8 o’clock?

Exercise 38

Original: The people who were there can remember nothing unusual happening.
Transformed: Nobody who was there can remember anything unusual happening.

Exercise 39

Original: It was my refusal to obey the policeman that caused my arrest.
Transformed: It was because I refused to obey the policeman that I got arrested.