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Unit 2: Functional English Grammar : Transformation and Synthesis of Sentences

(c) What have we to do with him? Notes
(d) Who does not love his parents?
(e) Why waste time in idle pursuits?
(ii) Change the following Assertive Sentences into questions:
(a) Nothing succeeds like success.
(b) The face is the index of mind.
(c) A hermit has to do nothing with money.
(d) None can put up with such an insult.
(e) If you prick us, we bleed.
2.1.6 Interchange of Exclamatory and Assertive Sentences
(A)
1. Exclamatory : What a terrible shock!
Assertive : It is a very terrible shock.
2. Exclamatory : What a fool you are!
Assertive : You are a great fool.
3. Exclamatory : How charming the sight is!
Assertive : The sight is very charming.
4. Exclamatory : O! that I were young again.
Assertive : I wish I were young again.
5. Exclamatory : Oh, for the wings of a dove!
Assertive : I wish I had the wings of a dove.
6. Exclamatory : Alas! he is no more.
Assertive : It is sad that he is no more.
7. Exclamatory : A soldier and afraid of war!
Assertive : A soldier should never be afraid of war.
(B)
1. Assertive : It was a very nasty fall.
Exclamatory : What a nasty fall!
2. Assertive : It is a matter of joy that I have passed.
Exclamatory : Hurrah, I have passed!
3. Assertive : I earnestly desire to go abroad.
Exclamatory : If I could only go abroad!
Note. ‘How’ and ‘What’ in Exclamatory Sentences are replaced by ‘very’ or ‘great’ in Assertive
Sentences; ‘very’ before Adjectives and ‘great’ before Nouns.
Self-Assessment

5. (i) Change the following sentences from Exclamatory to Assertive:
(a) What a blunder you have committed!
(b) Oh, for a cup of water!
(c) Would that I were dead!
(d) Alas, she has lost her only child!
(e) What a lame excuse!

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