Tugas 10
1. Create 10 sentences containing comparative ?
Answer :
Transformation-of-Sentences is done in various ways.
The nature of the sentences can be changed without changing the meaning of the sentences.
1. Sentences containing the adverb ‘too’:
Example-1:
• My friend is too rich to by my consort.
You can see How the Transformation-of-Sentences, containing the adverb ‘too’, takes place without changing the meaning of the sentence.
• My friend is so rich that he can not be my consort.
Example-2:
• The news is too good to be true.
You can see How the Transformation-of-Sentences takes place into the following version without changing the meaning of the sentence.
• The news is so good that it can not be true.
Example-3:
• He drove too fast for the police to catch.
This sentence can be changed into the following version with out changing the meaning of the sentence.
• He drove so fast that the police can not catch him.
The Transformation-of-Sentences takes place by removing the adverb ‘too’ and by adding a conjunction ‘so…that’.
In this way, the following sentences have been changed for your attention.
Examples:
• He is too proud to beg.
• He is so proud that he will not beg.
• It is never too late to mend.
• It is not so late that it can not be mended.
• He is too ignorant for the post of a postman.
• He is so ignorant that he is not suitable for the post of a postman.
• This shirt is small for me.
• This shirt is so small that it is not suitable for me.
• He speaks too fast to be understood.
• He speaks so fast that he can not be understood.
2. Interchange of Degrees of Comparison: :
The Transformation-of-Sentences, containing comparatives, can be done as follows with out changing the meaning of the sentences.
Example-1:
• I am as strong as him.
This sentence is in positive degree.
This sentence can be changed into a sentence of comparative one.
• I am not stronger than him
Sumber : http://www.english-for-students.com/Transformation-of-Sentences.html
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