3.Sentence Reordering & Sentence Transformation.pdf

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I. SENTENCE REORDERING

Look at the words and phrases given below. Rearrange them to form meaningful

sentences as shown in example:

Example:

respect/said that/demanded/it/but/is/given/that/is not

It is said that respect is not demanded but given.

1. (a) if/something/then/in return for/should be/it is so/it

(b) self-respect/come out of/something/has/our/self/that/and/is/that

(c) people/look at/tend to/you look/the way/yourself/at/you

2. (a) knew/father/nobody/who/was/his

(b) died/mother/his birth/his/soon/after

(c) brought up/oliver/was/workhouse/orphanage/run by/the/an/in

3. (a) both/in the making of/share/responsibility/equal/the/society

(b) both/each other/hence/are/supplement/to

(c) from the very beginning/status of women/there/but/question mark/has

been/a/big/the/an/in our society

4. (a) Saudi Arabia/lifestyle/discovery/has changed/of/of the people/the/petroleum/

in/the

(b) petroleum/world/all over/in great/is/demand/the

(c) exporting petroleum/money/improve/is used/to/the/the standard/from/

earned/the people/of

5. (a) it/plants/which/supports/food/provide/all living things/to/planet/on/this

(b) soil/thus/foundation/earth/life/on/of/is/the/all

(c) solid rocks/below/soil/the/are/there

Answers

1. (a) If it is so, then it should be in return for something.

(b) Something that has come out of ourself and that is self-respect.

(c) People tend to look at you the way you look at yourself.

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2. (a) Nobody knew who his father was.

(b) His mother died soon after his birth.

(c) Oliver was brought up in an orphanage run by the workhouse.

3. (a) Both share equal responsibility in the making of the society.

(b) Hence, both are supplement to each other.

(c) But from the very beginning, there has been a big question mark on the status

of women in our society.

4. (a) The discovery of petroleum in Saudi Arabia has changed the lifestyle of the

people.

(b) Petroleum is in great demand all over the world.

(c) The money earned from exporting petroleum is used to improve the standard

of the people.

5. (a) It supports plants which provide food to all living things on this planet.

(b) Thus, soil is the foundation of all life on earth.

(c) Below the soil there are solid rocks.

II. SENTENCE TRANSFORMATION

Read the following conversations and complete the passages given below:

1. Patient : Can I have an appointment with the doctor this evening? I am very

sick.

Receptionist : I’m sorry. There’s a long waiting list. You will have to wait for at

least two weeks.

Patient : But by then I can die.

Receptionist : No problem. If your wife informs me, I can cancel the appointment.

A patient went to his doctor’s clinic and asked the receptionist if he could have an

appointment with the doctor that evening. He said to the receptionist that he was

very sick. The receptionist apologised saying that there (a) ......................................

.................................................................. . She further added that (b) ..................

.................................................................................... for at least two weeks. When

the patient said that he could be dead by then, the receptionist calmly replied that

there was no problem, if his wife (c) ........................................................................

.......................... the appointment.

2. Iris : Hi, Tom, How are you?

Tom : Life’s rather tough. I desparately need a job.

Iris : We have a vacancy in our office for the post of an Accounts Officer.

Tom : I have five years experience in a reputed firm as an Accounts

Officer.

Iris : Will you like to go abroad?

Tom : I have no problem.

Iris on meeting Tom asked him how he was. Tom replied that (a) ...........................

............................................................................... Iris told him (b) ......................