Q7: Do as Directed.
a) She cooks food.(change into past Indefinite Tense)
b) The peon rang the bell. (Negative)
c) Honesty best the policy is.(Re-arrange it into a meaningful sentence)
d) What a lovely child! (Assertive)
e) She was washing the clothes. (Interrogative)
f) Usha won the race. (Change the voice)
Answers
The sentences are transformed as directed:
a) She cooked food.
(Past Indefinite Tense- Simple past tense- involves usage of V3 form of the verb)
b) The peon did not ring the bell.
( For changing an positive sentence into negative, we add negative words such as 'did not')
c) Honesty is the best policy.
(It is a common universal truth)
d) The child is lovely.
(Assertive sentences are used to declare or simply state something without any exaggeration)
e) She was washing the clothes, wasn't she?
( Adding a question tag to convert it into an interrogative sentence)
f) The race was won by Usha.
( Transformed into the passive voice- Object+ verb+ subject).
a) She cooks food. (change into past Indefinite Tense)
=> She Cooked food.
- when we change the simple present tense into the simple past tense, we should use the third form of the verb "cooked"
b) The peon rang the bell. (Negative)
=> The person did not ring the bell.
- Negative Sentences contain negative words such as -No, not, never, no one, etc.
c) Honesty best the policy is. (Re-arrange it into a meaningful sentence)
=> Honesty is the best policy.
- It is the universal truth.
d) What a lovely child! (Assertive)
=> The child is lovely.
- Assertive sentences are used to describe something.
e) She was washing clothes. (Interrogative)
=> She was washing clothes. wasn't she?
- Interrogative sentences are used to ask a question.
f) Usha won the race. (Change the voice)
=> The race was won by Usha.
- when we change active voice to passive voice we should exchange the places of subject and object. we should always use the word "by" in a passive voice.