Question

d) Re-write the following sentences according to the instructions given after each. Make other changes chat may be necessary, but do not change the meaning of each sentence. (3) (i) We reached the house but could not find what we were looking for. (End……house) (ii) “Are you sure this man in the green shirt is our new teacher?” lack asked Ben. (Begin Jack…) (iii) You can stay in this room until someone wants to use it … (Begin As long as ….) (iv) Both the answers are wrong (Begin Neither…) (v) He is too young to travel alone. (Remove too) (vi) you need patience to learn how to spea a new language. (Begins: In order…) (vii) She will never learn to be polite. (Change into interrogative) (viii) He said, “I was writing a letter.” (Write in reported speech)

Answer 1

(viii) he said that he had been writing a letter

Answer 2

(v)He is so young that he cannot travel alone