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VOICE CHANGE
1. Behold her single in the field.
2. She sings a melancholy strain.
3. Alone she cuts and binds the grain.
4. The teachers shared the common life with the boys.
5. He had told the poor old dear some gallant lies.
6. Then her face was bowed.
7. She folded up the letter.
8. You cannot miss that inn.
9. They will not keep you standing at the door.
10. May not the darkness hide it from my face?
11. Shall I meet other way farers at night?
12. I put the things back one by one.
13. It made them nervous and excited.
14. They should discuss the subject.
15.Johnny would know next to nothing of the events of 1066.
16. Leave a space.
17. I didn’t catch the last piece.
18. Stop interrupting my lesson.
19. When the law was being hotly debated, many meetings were
arranged by us.
20. Such incidents are often published in newspapers today.
21. Many women lead lives of anguish.
22. The girls cook the dinner for the boys.
23. I brought these children around me.
24. The mind should find its freedom in every respect.
25. The atmosphere had provided the students with a natural
impulse.
26. I knew the children’s mind.
27. Everything is managed by mutual help.
28. They would have to give the bridegroom costly gifts.
29. Will no one tell me what she sings?
30. Stand outside the room.
31. My repose was salted and sobered by the bird’s Voice.
32. I found that I had packed my tooth-brush in the bag.
33. No, we shall not pay dowry anymore.
34. Well, fill it.
35.The law prohibiting such practice had been passed much
earlier in the Lok Sabha.
36. Be quiet.
37. An atmosphere was created.
38. They knew when I was employed in writing.
39. I dream that I have not packed it.
40. Neither society nor government can protect their honour or
their lives.
41.Gently its touch awoke him once
42. Something needs to be done and has to be done soon.”
43. You need a shave.
44.Birds filled the air with their cries.
45.We had earned the reputation.
46.They will sell this water drop by drop in their villages.
47.He is to put to sleep by an anesthetist.
48.A minority of car owners cause massive pollution.
49.They raised the school to the status of a Middle School.
50. I’ll cover myself.
51.Always it woke him, even in France.
52. Miss Smith, will you conduct this gentleman to the Soaping
Room?
53. Give me the keys.
54.I had to dispose of the salt-cellars.
55.In rural areas environmental degradation has often defeated
the gains of economic development.
56.He cast a sly look at Swaminathan.
57.She finds no object worth her constancy.
58. The patient is put to sleep by an anesthetist.
59.My men and I did not spend all our time at Mokameh Ghat
working and sleeping.
60.We observed no Hindu or Mohammedan holidays at Mokameh Ghat.
61.Caste prejudices were the first snag we ran up against.
62.This pleased Mani greatly.
63.All that will be attended to in its place.
64.Sweets were then distributed to the children.
65.Environmental degradation plays a major role.
66. Could it be postponed for a day or so more?
67.A fond mother when the day is over, leads by the hand her
little child to bed.
68.Where the mind is led forward by thee.
69.The consultant waved the question aside with dignity.
70.Perhaps, Dr. Scrape can arrange something for you.
71.They gave me a devil in its place.
72. I make my diagnosis and I pass you on to expert hands.
73. He is put to sleep by an anaesthetist and operated on by an
operating surgeon.
74. His work was cheerfully performed by his companions.
75. Because it gave me an opportunity of indulging in one of my
hobbies.
76. I am going to bring Rajam here, bundle him up.
77.They took away my name, they took away my soul and they gave
me a devil in its place.
78. The world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow
domestic walls.
79. The mind is led forward by thee into even-widening thought
and action.
80. Into that heaven of freedom, let my country awake.
81. In many cases environmental plunder is an infringement of
distributive justice. (Voice change / verb of ‘infringement’)
82.He shook his
head.
83. I only do the left
foot.
84. Perhaps, Dr.Scrape can arrange something for
you.
(End:…by Dr.Scrape.)
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NARRATION CHANGE
1. “Stop here, or gently pass.”
2. “Will no one tell me what she sings?”
3. “Behold her single in the field.”
4. The mother said, “Jack fell as he’d have wished.”
5. The mother said, “We mothers are so proud of our dead
soldiers.”
6. “The Colonel writes so nicely” the mother said.
7. The wayfarers said, “Does the road wind uphill all the way?”
8. The wayfarer said, “Shall I meet other wayfarers at night?”
9. “Aren’t you going to put the boots in?” said
Harris.
10. “I saw you do it myself not minute ago.” said Harris.
11. I said I’d pack.
12. “I ‘ll take my oath I put it down on that chair.” said
George.
13. “So mysterious!” said Harris.
14. “Most extraordinary thing I ever heard of” said George.
15. The teacher said, “Sit down and get your exercise books
out.”
16. Teacher said, “Can you back that up, John.?”
17. Teacher said, “What is it Smith?”
18. “Be quiet, or you’ll have to stay behind tonight.” said
teacher.
19. The writer said, “After all, how many could be like
Snehalata ?”
20. R.N. Tagore said, “It was like a nest which students
themselves co-operated in building up with their own.
21. They could not say, “No, we shall not pay dowry anymore.
22. The teacher said, “ Today I’ll dictate.”
23. They could not gather courage to state, “No, we shall not
pay dowry any more.”
24. Johnny: Sir, my pen has no ink.
Teacher: Well, fill it.
25. Teacher : Good
morning Class : Good
morning
26. Teacher : What’s your view, Elizabeth.
27. “Why, here it is all the time.” he exclaimed indingnantly.
28. Yhe poet said, “And salted was my food.”
29. “Downhill I came, hungry and yet not starved” the poet said.
30. Tagore observed, “Mind has its hunger for the ministration
of nature.”
31. R.N. Tagore said to us, “I always try to get foreign
lecturers fo my school.”
32 He said, “We have started some night schools for the
primitive people and our boys go there and teach them.”
33. The writer said, “ The co-education system has been
working perfectly. We have had no cause of complaint.
34. He said, “It was his my method.”
35. He said, “People did not have any confidence in a poet.”
36. “Where?” cried Harris spinning round.
37. “Stand still, cann’t you?” roared George flying after him.
38. When I had finished, George asked if the soap was in.
(Direct)
39. Class: Oh, not again!
40. Teacher: Has anyone any views on the subject?
41. “Into that heaven of freedom, let my country awake”.
42. “Could it be postponed for a day or so more?” He asked the
expert.
43. “Stand up on the bench!” roared the teacher.
44. “What is Lisbon famous for?” asked the teacher.
45. Persome : Marie, isn’t the soup boiling yet?
46. “What have I done to offend you?” asked Rajam.
47. Convict : Do you know what I am?
48. “All right”, said the patient. ‘I’ll have a
specialist”.
49. “Could it be postponed for a day or two?” he asked
50. The mind is led forward by thee into ever widening
51.“Have you the courage to prove that you are a man ?” asked
Mani.
52. “And now,” added the expert more genially, “at the end of
all of it, shall we say- a shine?”
53. He suddenly asked, “Did you bring the thing that I wanted?
54. Sergeant : Your friend, monseigneur ! Holy virgin! Well!
55.The specialist murmured, “It seems that we have no
soapist available for at least an hour or so.”
56. “Why, no?” said the patient; “can’t Dr. what’s his
name do that too?”
57.“Dr. Follicle will see you now”, said the young lady
attendant.
58. All right; he said “if I must I must After all, the sooner
it’s done, the sooner it’s over. Go right ahead and shave me”.
59. Perhaps Dr. Scrape can arrange something for you.
60. Miss. Smith, He said to the entering secretary,
“please fill out a card for this gentleman for the Shaving Room”.
61. “Art thou pale of weariness of climbing heaven?”
62. “Let us start” I said, at the right and work round the deck.
63. “What is Lisbon famous for?” asked the teacher.
64. “If this is all the cause of your anger, forget,”
Rajam said to Mani.
65. Persome said to Marie, “Did Monseigneur , the Bishop leave
any message for me?
66. And Mani voiced another doubt, “If anything happens to you,
will you promise to keep it out of your father’s knowledge?”
67. Marie : Madam, the soup is boiling!
Persome : Then pour it out fool and don’t chatter. No, no not
like that here, let me do it and do you put the salt cellars on the table the
silver ones!
68. “Which foot?” asked the boy.
69. The patient hummed and hawed a little. “What about the fee?”
he asked.
70. “Swaminathan, stand up,” said the teacher.
71. “Let them go on making a noise and they would get a clean,
big zero in the examination,” the teacher said to himself.
72. The authors say, “ Something needs to be done and has to be
done soon.”
73. “How’s that? Said the man, “Oh, it doesn’t matter___ here,
take the right.”
74. Marie: The silvers ones, madam?
75. “Pray do not trouble about that”, he said, “all that will be
attended to in its place.”
76. He said to me, “Who is the man who is sitting on the bench
near us?”
77. Bishop: Here, Marie, take my comforter.
78. ‘That’s unfortunate’, murmured the specialist, “It seems
that we have no soapist available for at least an hour or so.”
79. “So may expect you at the river tomorrow.” said he.
80. ‘All right’ he said, “if I must, I must. After all the
sooner it’s done, the sooner it’s over.”
81. “ Oh what made fatuous sunbeams toil to break earth’s sleep
at all?” said the poet.
82. Persome: Did he tell you where he was going?
83. Persome: Marie, isn’t the soup boiling yet?
84. The teacher fired a second question, “What do you know
about the Indian climate?”
85. “To see if you can break my head,” said Mani.
86. “My dear sir,” he said, “I don’t shave you myself.”
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NEGATIVE AND AFFIRMATIVE
1. That was very interesting. (Make it Negative)
2. No one seemed to care. (Affirmative)
3. You cannot miss that inn. (Affirmative)
4. I’m not like that. (Affirmative)
5. These days however, the number of Snehalatas are gradually
increasing. (Make it Negative)
6. The atmosphere should be less formal. (Negative)
7. My pen has no ink. (Affirmative)
8. We shall not pay dowry anymore. (Affirmative)
9. The condition of the women was pathetic.
(Negative)
10. I had only five or six students at that time.
(Negative)
11. Alone she cuts and binds the grain. (Omit
‘Alone’)
12. It is always difficult to get rid of
these.
(Negative)
13. I didn’t say anything. (Affirmative)
14. It was like a nest. (Negative)
15. It was not like a cage. (Affirmative)
16. Neither society nor Government is unable to
protect their honour or their lives. (Affirmative)
17. The name of this practice is dowry. (Affirmative)
18. She sings a melancholy strain. (Negative)
19. I’m not like that.
(Negative)
20. Education should be a part of life. (Make it
Negative)
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JOINING & TRANSFORMATION
1. Be quiet or you’ll have to stay behind.
(Begin with ‘If’)
2. This was hardly what I
intended.
(Make it Simple)
3. Stop here, or gently pass.
(Make
it Complex)
4. I shall find comfort, travel-sore and weak. (Make it
Compound)
5. The mother read the letter. She folded it
up. (Make it Simple)
6. Jack fell as he’d have wished(Turn into a Simple
Sentence)
7. I made no comment. I only
waited. (Make it Simple)
8. There will be beds for all who
seek. (Turn into Simple Sentence)
9. I saw her singing at her
work. (Make it Complex)
10. And salted was my food, and my repose. (Begin with ‘Both’)
11. They lay under the stars.They were unable
to rejoice. (Make it Single)
12. Downhill I came, hungry and yet not starved. (Noun
form of ‘hungry’)
13. I rather pride myself on my packing. (Use ‘pride’ as an
Adjective)
14. I rather pride myself on my packing. (Use ‘pride’ as a
Noun)
15. This was hardly what I intended. (Turn into Simple
Sentence)
16. Has anyone any views on the subject? (Make it an
Interrogative Sentence)
18. She had no worth in society’s eyes. (Use ‘worth’ as
an Adjective)
19. The name of this practice is dowry. (Change the
voice/ Use ‘name’ as a Verb)
20. That was very
interesting. (Change into Interrogative)
22. If Britain is to hold her own in the world of tomorrow, she
must educate her children thoroughly. (Use: ‘in order to’ and
omit ‘if’)
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DEGREE
1. Rest seemed the sweetest thing under a roof.
(Make it Positive)
2. Rest seemed the sweetest thing under a roof. (Make it
Comparative)
3. George is the worst packer in the world.(Make it
Positive)
4. Harris will be the worst packer in this world.
(Make it Positive)
5. Harris will be the worst packer in this world.
(Make it Comparative)
6. Their subconscious mind is more active than the
conscious
one.
(Change the degree of comparison)
7. I selected the most beautiful spot in the village.
(Make it Positive)
8. No Nightingale sings as sweetly as the reaper.
(Make it Comparative)
9. The owl’s cry was the most melancholy cry.
(Make it Comparative)
10. George is the worst packer in the world. (Use ‘worse than’)
11. No Nightingale sings as sweetly as the reaper.
(Use ‘more sweetly’)
12. Rest seemed the sweetest thing under a
roof. (Change the degree of comparison)
13. The atmosphere should be less formal. (Use ‘more’ instead of
‘less’)
14. The best way is to accomplish this is to allow the children
to take more part in the lesson.
(Comparative)
15. The owl’s cry was the most melancholy cry. (Make
it Comparative)
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SPLIT UP
1. George put on a pipe and spread himself over the easy
chair, and Harris cocked his legs on the table and lit a cigar.
2. I repack and forget it, have to rush upstairs for it at the
last moment and carry it to the railway station, wrapped up in my
pocket-handkerchief.
3. They did it scrape it out at last, and put it down on a
chair, and Harris sat on it, and it stuck to him and they went looking for it
all over the room.
4. I want to get up and superintend, and walk round with my
hands, and tell him what to do.
5. I dream that I haven’t packed it, and hunt for it.
6. I rummaged the things up into much the same state that they
must have been before the world was created, and when chaos reigned.
7. He pretended that the lemons were rats, and got into the
hamper and killed three of them before Harris land him with the frying pan.
8. Finding his way blocked by the front door, he sank into a
paving stone and announced to the whole neighbourhood, ‘I ATE S C O O W.’
9. I should think that a vast majority of today’s school
children would prefer to be taught in a school using the second method, but
will probably not get the chance.
10. The Hindu Code Law was duly passed but it did not provide
beleaguered women respite from the violence that grieved their lives.
11. When the law was hotly debated, we too arranged many
meetings and gatherings among women and collected many signatures in its
supports.
12. If women themselves do not stand up against such men, then
neither society nor government can protect their honour or their lives.
13. If the parents could not satisfy his claims even by
installments, the daughter came back to her parent’s home.
14. I knew that the mind has its hunger for the ministrations on
nature, mother nature, and so I selected this spot where the sky is
unobstructed to the verge of the horizon.
15. My idea was that education should be a part of life itself
and must not be detatched from it and be made into something abstract.
16. They knew when I was employed in writing some drama and they
took an intense interest as it went on and developed.
17. I had some of the very great artists of our land and while
they went on with their work, the boys could watch them and saw day by day how
those works developed.
18. It was not like a cage in which the birds are fed from the
outside, but it was like a nest.
19. And it was always difficult to get rid of those when we grow
up and even it is sedulously cultivated in our school-books.
20. Burdened with this insult and shedding tears at the thought
of the bankrupt father, the girl would have to sit on the bridal piri or stool.
21. They knew when I was employed in writing some drama and they
took an intense interest as it went on and developed.
22. I had some of the very great artists of our land and while
they went on with their work, the boys could watch them and saw day by day how
those works developed.
23. It was not like a cage in which the birds are fed from the
outside, but it was like a nest.
24.. The music in my heart I bore/Long after it was heard no
more.
25. Downhill I came, hungry ; and yet not starved.
26. My tooth-brush is a thing that haunts me when I’m
travelling, and makes my life a misery.
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