Worksheet Solutions: Sentence Transformation | English Grammar for Class 9 PDF Download

Q.1. Do as directed
(i) Who can beat him in the race? – (Change into ‘assertive’)

Nobody/ No one can beat him in the race.

(ii) Suchitra is one of the most intelligent students in my class. – (Use ‘only few’)

Only few students are as intelligent as Suchitra in my class.

(iii) What a beautiful store it is! – (Change into ‘assertive’)

It is a very beautiful store.

(iv) Kashmir is one of the most beautiful hill stations of India. – (Change into ‘comparative’)

Kashmir is more beautiful than many of the hill stations of India.

(v) It was a spectacular show. – (Change into ‘exclamatory’)

What a spectacular show it was!

(vi) The matter is too urgent to be postponed. – (Remove the adverb ‘too’)

The matter is so urgent that it cannot be postponed.

(vii) Prerna is an honest girl. – (Change into ‘negative’)

Prerna is not a dishonest girl.

(viii) He is so weak that he can not lift the load. – (Change into ‘affirmative’)

He is too weak to lift the load.

(ix) Renu is as active as Kanchan. – (Change into ‘negative’)

Kanchan is not more active than Renu.

(x) We eat to live. – (Change into ‘negative’)

We do not eat to die.

Q.2. Read the following conversations and complete the passages given below:
Iris: Hi, Tom, How are you?
Tom: Life’s rather tough. I desparately need a job.
Iris: We have a vacancy in our office for the post of an Accounts Officer.
Tom: I have five years experience in a reputed firm as an Accounts Officer.
Iris: Will you like to go abroad?
Tom: I have no problem.
Iris on meeting Tom asked him how he was. Tom replied that (a) ________ Iris told him (b) ________ On that Tom (c) ________ Iris enquired if he would like to go abroad and Tom replied that he had no problem.

(a) life was rather tough and he desparately needed a job
(b) that they had a vacancy in their office for the post of an Acoounts Officer.
(c) said that he had five years experience in a reputed firm as an Accounts Officer

Q.3. Read the following conversations and complete the passages given below:
Husband: Doctor, what will the total expenses be  in the  end?
Doctor: You will have to pay only six lac and you will have a healthy and happy wife.
Husband: Any concession?
Doctor: Not a penny.
Husband: Then forget it.
The husband of a patient asked the doctor (a) ________ The doctor replied that he would have to pay only six lacs and added that (b) ________ The husband asked (c) ________ When the doctor refused to leave even a penny then the patient asked the doctor to forget about the money.

(a) what the total expenses would be in the end
(b) he would have a healthy and happy wife
(c) if he could get any concession