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

(ii) Separate : The king was dead. This was a rumour. This rumour was false. Notes
Combined : The romour that the king was dead was false.
(iii) Separate : Ranjit Singh was healthy and well-built. He had lost one eye.
Combined : Except that he had lost one eye, Ranjit Singh was healthy and well-built.
(iv) Separate : You may come or not. I am not interested in it.
Combined : I am not interested in whether you come or not.
(v) Separate : Why does the patient’s temperature go up every evening. The doctor
is unable to explain.
Combined : The doctor is unable to explain why the patient’s temperature goes up
every evening
(vi) Separate : Who is at the bottom of this mischief? We must find out.
Combined : We must find out who is at the bottom of this mischief.
(vii) Separate : The distant galaxies are all moving away from us at immense speed.
That is the most surprising fact discovered recently.
Combined : The most surprising fact discovered recently is that the distant galaxies
are all moving away from us at immense speed.
(viii) Separate : Fate had something different in store for him. He did not know this.
He had only escaped from an unpleasant situation.
Combined : He had only escaped from an unpleasant situation, not knowing that
fate had something different in store for him.
(ix) Separate : This silent pledge of the rough looking young-man was to shape the
history of the country. Nobody knew this.
Combined : Nobody knew that this silent pledge of the rough looking youngman was
to shape the history of the country.
2. By using an Adjective Clause; as—
(i) Separate : My uncle sent me a lovely birthday present. He likes me very much.
Combined : My uncle who likes me very much sent me a lovely birthday present.
(ii) Separate : My father gave me a pen yesterday. I have lost that pen.
Combined : I have lost the pen that my father gave me yesterday.
(iii) Separate : Then we visited the Birla House. Mahatma Gandhi was shot dead here.
Combined : Then we visited the Birla House where Mahatma Gandhi was shot dead.
(iv) Separate : He is a glutton. I have never come across such a glutton.
Combined : I have never come across such a glutton as he is.
(v) Separate : I bought a new pen yesterday. This is the same pen.
Combined : This is the same new pen as I bought yesterday.
(vi) Separate : It is his name. By this name the world knows him today.
Combined : It is by this name that the world knows him today.
3. By using an Adverb Clause; as—
(i) Separate : I reached the school. The bell was ringing then.
Combined : When I reached the school, the bell was ringing.
(ii) Separate : He died. He wanted the nation to live.
Combined : He died so that the nation might live.
(iii) Separate : Push northward into the unknown country. There is a great work for
you.
Combined : If you push northward into the unknown country, there is a great work
for you.

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