English Grammar Transformation Exercises and Solutions

English Grammar Transformation Exercises

Practice your English skills with these sentence transformation exercises, covering various grammatical structures.

1. Relative Clauses

• Original: Albert is coming back from hospital tomorrow. He has just broken his ankle.
• Transformation: Albert, who has just broken his ankle, is coming back from hospital tomorrow.

2. Reported Speech

• Original: “How much is this T-shirt?”, she asked.
• Transformation: She asked how much that T-shirt was.

3. Modal Verbs

• Original: If you want my advice, don’t eat so many cakes!
• Transformation: You shouldn’t eat so many cakes.

4. Wish Clauses

• Original: I’m sorry I didn’t work hard enough last year.
• Transformation: I wish I had worked hard enough last year.

5. Contrast Connectors

• Original: Although he was exhausted, he managed to finish reading the novel.
• Transformation: Despite being exhausted, he managed to finish reading the novel.

6. Question Formation

• Original: Gerard plays tennis twice a week.
• Transformation: How often does Gerard play tennis?

7. Relative Clauses

• Original: That woman’s husband is my boss.
• Transformation: That is the woman whose husband is my boss.

8. Passive Voice

• Original: They have found the stolen money.
• Transformation: The stolen money has been found.

9. Conditionals

• Original: She divorced him because he was so terrible to her.
• Transformation: If he hadn’t been so terrible to her, she wouldn’t have divorced him.

10. Reported Speech

• Original: “I have read this book”, she said.
• Transformation: She said that she had read that book.

11. Modal Verbs

• Original: I am sure she knows you are here.
• Transformation: She must know you are here.

12. Causal Connectors

• Original: I felt really tired so I stayed at home.
• Transformation: I stayed at home because I felt really tired.

13. Passive Voice

• Original: People consider that he is an expert on cricket.
• Transformation: He is considered to be an expert on cricket.

14. Gerund / Infinitive

• Original: Please don’t shoot.
• Transformation: He begged us not to shoot.

15. Gerund / Infinitive

• Original: Learning English is not easy.
• Transformation: It is not easy to learn English.

16. Conditionals

• Original: We didn’t visit the museum because we hadn’t time.
• Transformation: If we had had time, we would have visited the museum.

17. Wish Clauses

• Original: I’m sorry we accepted the invitation.
• Transformation: I wish we hadn’t accepted the invitation.

18. Contrast Connectors

• Original: Although she was poor, she was happy.
• Transformation: In spite of being poor, she was happy.

19. Relative Clauses

• Original: They didn’t pay for the ring.
• Transformation: This is the ring which they didn’t pay for.

20. Contrast Connectors

• Original: Although the weather was awful, they had a great time.
• Transformation: In spite of the awful weather, they had a great time.

21. Passive Voice

• Original: They have given us a Roald Dahl novel.
• Transformation: We have been given a Roald Dahl novel.

22. Verbal Tenses

• Original: She hasn’t phoned her mother for two months.
• Transformation: It’s two months since she last phoned her mother.

23. Modal Verbs

• Original: They don’t allow smoking in this room.
• Transformation: You mustn’t smoke in this room.

24. Wish Clauses

• Original: I’m sorry I didn’t go shopping with you.
• Transformation: I wish I had gone shopping with you.

25. Passive Voice

• Original: London will fascinate you.
• Transformation: You will be fascinated by London.

26. Relative Clauses

• Original: I saw a man later. He was the president of the European Community.
• Transformation: The man, who(m) I saw later, was the president of the European Community.