*Language study*
Taken from recently released *Question Bank*
1) She could not beat off.(Use ' *be able to* ')
*Ans* :- She was not able to beat off.
2) What a hideous new dress!(Make it *Assertive* )
*Ans* :- It is really a hideous new dress.
3)She could not face the whole horror.(Use *be able to*)
*Ans* :- She was not able to face the whole horror.
4)She felt like a dressmaker's dummy standing there.(Frame a *Rhetorical question*)
*Ans*:- Didn't she feel like a dressmaker's dummy standing there?
5)She could not face the whole horror.(Make it *affirmative*)
*Ans* :- She was unable to face the whole horror.
6) She was in agony, and She repeated them over and over again .(Rewrite as *simple* sentence )
*Ans* :- Being in agony , she repeated them over and over again.
7) "I feel like some dowdy, decrepit, horribly dingy old fly."She said.(Rewrite in *Reportd speech*)
*Ans* :- She said that she felt like some dowdy, decrepit, horribly dingy old fly.
8) How detached she was !(Make it *Assertive*)
*Ans* :- She was very detached.
9) She saw *the truth.* ( Frame a *Wh* question )
*Ans* :- What did she see ?
10) Miss Millan's little workroom was really terribly hot.(Make it *Exclamatory* )
*Ans*:-How terribly hot Miss Millan's little workroom was !
11) I have enjoyed myself enormously.(Use *present perfect continuous tense*. )
*Ans* :- I have been enjoying myself enormously.
12) "I have enjoyed myself, " she said to Mr. Dalloway .(Rewrite in *Reported speech*)
*Ans* :- She told Mr.Dalloway that she had enjoyed herself.
13) For *seeing* without feeling can obviously be uncaring.(USE *Infinitive form*)
*Ans* :-To see without feeling can obviously be uncaring.
14) We travel, initialy to lose overselves and we travel next to find ourselves. (USE *not only - but also*)
Ans:- We travel not only initialy to lose overselves but also next to find ourselves.
15) We travel *to open* our hearts.((Use *gerund form* )
*Ans* :- We travel for opening our hearts.
16) We learn more about the world.(Change into *passive voice*)
*Ans* :- More about the world is learnt by us.
17)The first great joy of travelling is *simply the luxury of leaving all my beliefs.*(Frame *Wh* question)
*Ans* :- What is the first great joy of travelling ?
18) Travel is the best way we have of *rescuing* the humaniy of places.(Rewrite using *Infinitive form*)
*Ans* :- Travel is the best way we have to rescue the humaniy of places.
Or *Change the Degree*)
*P.D* .- No other way we have of rescuing the humaniy of places is as good as travel.
*C.D* :-. Travel is better than any other way we have of rescuing the humaniy of places.
19) We can become a kind of Pigeon. (Use modal auxiliary which indicates *possibility* )
*Ans* :- We might become a kind of Pigeon.
20)All of us have heard the old Proust line.(Begin the sentence with - *The old Proust line*)
*Ans* :- The old Proust line has been heard by all of us.
21) You can teach them what they have to celebrate. (Replace modal auxiliary showing *advice /suggestion*)
*Ans* :- You should teach them what they have to celebrate.
22) I go to Iceland *to visit* the lunar space within me.(Use *Gerund form*)
*Ans* :- I go to Iceland for visiting the lunar spaces within me.
23) People cannot put a name or tag to us. (Use *be able to*)
*Ans* :- People are not able to put a name or tag to us.
24) We live without a past or future. (USE *Present perfect continuous tense*)
*Ans* :- We have been living without a past or future.
25)Travelling is a way to reverse time.(Frame a *Rhetorical question*)
*Ans* :- Isn't travelling a way to reverse time ?
26) We cannot understand. (Use *be able to* / Make it *Affirmative*)
*Ans* :- We are not able to understand.
Or.
We are unable to understand.
27) I can remake myself for better.(Replace the modal auxiliary by showing *Possibility*)
*Ans* :- I might remake myself for better.
28) Travel can be a kind of monasticism.(Make it *Interrogative*)
*Ans* :- Can't/ Can travel be a kind of monasticism ?
29) We are being consumed by the cultures .(Begin the sentence with *The cultures*)
*Ans* :- The cultures are consuming us.
30) When you go to McDonald's outlet in Kyoto , you will find Teriyaki, macburgers and Bacon potato pies. (Use *As soon as/ No sooner--- than*)
*Ans* :- *As soon as* you go to a McDonald's outlet in Kyoto , you will find Teriyaki mac burgers and Bacon potato pies.
*Ans* :- *No sooner* do you go to a McDonald's outlet in Kyoto *than* you will find Teriyaki macburgers and Bacon potato pies.
31) They can travel around the world.(Use *be able to*)
Ans:- They are able yo travel around the world.
32) The world seems increasing in flux.(Frame a *Rhetorical question*)
*Ans*;- Doesn't the world seem increasing in flux?
33) They invent the places.(Use *Present perfect tense*)
Ans:- They have invented the places.
34)The most valuable pacifies we explore will always be the vast expanses within us. (Change the *degree*
*Ans* :- *P.D.*- No other pacifies we explore will always be as valuable as the vast expanses within us.
*C.D.* - The vast expanses within us will always be more valuable than any other pacifies we explore.
