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Communication Skills-I

Notes 3. Change the following sentences into interrogatives:

(a) I am not going anywhere.
(b) Please come here.
(c) Not everybody knows the truth.
(d) Nobody knew where they were going.
4. What do you mean by exclamatory sentences? Is there any syntax that they follow?
5. What are positive sentences and the rules for their structural formation? Can you say all the
sentences in positive form? If yes, what is the need for negative sentences?
6. What do you mean by a statement? Construct statements based on a situation watched by
you in your favourite fi lm.
7. What are the rules for structural formation of different types of statements? Construct
conditional sentences using if or when in situations where,

(a) I will not eat until and unless you cook the food.
(b) I will not eat only after you cook the food.
(c) I might not eat the food unless the cooking is done by you.
8. What are negative sentences? Are all negative sentences declarative in nature? If no, prove
through examples.
9. What do you mean by clauses? Prove that independent clause can be used a separate
sentence also.

10. What do you mean by a phrase? What are different types of phrases? Can phrases stand
alone?

Answers: Self Assessment

1. (c) 2. (b)
3. (d) 4. (d)

5. (a) 6. (a)
7. (c) 8. (a)
9. (b) 10. (c)
11. (c)

10.7 Further Readings

Books Randolph Quirk, Sidney Greenbaum, Geoffrey Leech, Jan Svartvik, A Comprehensive
Grammar of the English Language, LongMan Publications.

Raymond Murphy, Essential English Grammar, Cambridge University Press.
Urmila Rai and S.M. Rai, Business Communication, Himalaya Publishing House.

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