Question

E. Change the forms of the following sentences as indicated.
1. The thief stole a purse from Nirmala's office. (negative yes/no question)
2. Vasu gave Zuali a book to read. (negative)
3. Mohsin ws able to solve the sums. (yes/no question)
4. Trishna came home last evening from college. (negative yes/no question)
5. The rabbit hid in a hole. (yes/no question)​

Answer 1

Answer:

1. Didn't the thief steal a purse from Nirmala's office ?

2. Didn't Vasu give Zuali a book to read ?

3. Wasn't Mohsin able to solve the sums ?

4. Didn't Trishna come home last evening from college ?

5. Didn't the rabbit hide in a hole ?

Explanation:

• For transforming any positive sentence to negative the easiest way is to turn into interrogative sentence.
• Verbs take not after them to make a sentence negative. But most verbs cannot take not after them. Only the 24 verbs can take not after them and they are called operators.
• Operators are be verbs, have verbs, do verbs, modals.
• If a sentence doesn't contain an operator, we take a do support to make the sentence negative or interrogative.

Answer 2

Answer:

1. doesn't the thief stole a purse from Nirmala's office.
2. didn't vasu gave zuali a book to read?
3. was not Mohsin able to solve the sums?