FREQUENTLY ASKED GRAMMAR QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS

 

Do as directed:

i.                 I offered him a chair. (Change the voice)

ii.                Unless you respect all, they will not respect you. (Rewrite the sentence using “if” in place of “unless”)

iii.               The stranger said to me, “have you lost your way?” (Change the narration)

iv.               The sum is too difficult for me to solve. (Change into complex sentence using “so-that”)

v.                a. I bought a car yesterday.

b. it is blue in colour.

(Combine the two sentences and make a complex sentence with a relative clause)

vi.               Please lend me your pen. (Change the voice)

vii.             Make haste.

You will be late.

(Combine the sentences using a suitable co-ordinating conjunction)

viii.            The teacher said to the students, “Don’t waste your in idle gossip.” (Change the narration)

ix.               No sooner did I take a medicine than I started feeling better. (Rewrite the sentence using “As soon as”)

x.                My sister, who is a teacher, can speak five languages. (Pick out the relative clause and write its type as defining / non defining)

xi.               Inspite of running very fast, Ajay lost the race. (Rewrite the sentence starting with ‘Although’)

xii.             He saves money so that he may buy a car. (Rewrite the sentence using non-finite clause)

 

Answers:

i.                 A chair was offered to him by me.

ii.                If you respect all, they will respect you.

iii.               The stranger asked me if I had lost my way.

iv.               The sum was so difficult for me that I could not solve.

v.                I bought a car yesterday that is blue in colour.

vi.               You are requested to lend me your pen.

vii.             Make haste or you will be late.

viii.            The teacher advised the students not to waste their time in idle gossip.

ix.               As soon as I took a dose of medicine, I started feeling better.

x.                Who is a teacher. Defining clause.

xi.               Although running very fast, Ajay lost the race.

xii.             He saves money to buy a car.