Typical Structure for Sentence Transformation
1. As soon as / No sooner / Hardly / Barely/ Scarcely
2. Not only - but also
3. Too - to
4. Active Voice - Passive Voice
5. Direct Speech to Indirect Speech or vice versa
6. Comparison of adjectives
7. Conditional words (All conditional words must have a comma following it)
Although / Unless/ If/ In spite/ Despite/ Notwithstanding/ Lest
8. Simple, compound and complex sentences
9. Ought
10.
Little did I know …
11.
None but …
12.
Much rather…
13.
Rather… than
14.
Prefer to…
15.
So… that
16.
Not only is/ did/ does … but also
17.
No sooner did/ does … than
18.
Hardly had/ did/ does… when FOLLOW THE TENSE - IF QUESTION
IN PAST PERFECT THEN IN ANSWER IN THE PAST PERFECT.
19.
If the question has the word ‘probable’/ ‘probably’ and the answer
begins with ‘In’, then the answer will be … In all probability…
20.
Use either … or
21.
Use neither … nor
22.
Use in spite of …
23.
Little did/ does
24.
If the question begins on a negative note and ends on a positive note,
the answer should start on a positive note and end on a negative note
Eg. It hasn’t rained here for a week, has it?
It has rained here for a week, hasn’t it?
25.
Never use ‘of’ with ‘comprise’.
Eg. The team comprises 11 players.
26.
Whenever a sentence begins with ‘No other…’, the sentence should be
in the Positive Degree.