English Language

Sentence Transformation

697 Questions

Sentence transformation questions evaluate grammatical accuracy in converting sentences between active and passive voice, as well as direct and indirect speech. The focus lies on altering sentence structures without changing the original meaning while maintaining correct tense and verb forms. This is a highly weighted English language topic in SSC and banking exams.

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Sentence Transformation Questions

Multiple choice

Define Passive voice

  1. The subject receives the action rather than performing it.

  2. Sentences are not too wordy.

  3. Verbs are more direct and easier to point out.

  4. When the subject performs the action of the verb.
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

In passive voice, the grammatical subject of the sentence is the recipient of the action, rather than the performer.

Multiple choice

When should active voice be used in a sentence?

  1. When you want to give the reader a vague description.

  2. When you are not naming specific object.

  3. When you want to keep something or someone discrete.

  4. When writing a non-scientific paper.
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

Active voice is generally preferred in most writing, including non-scientific papers, because it is more direct, concise, and clear.

Multiple choice

Active Voice occurs when...

  1. the subject receives the action

  2. you want to emphasize the recipient of the action

  3. a person or object that experiences the action

  4. the subject performs the action of the verb
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

Active voice is defined as a sentence structure where the subject of the sentence performs the action denoted by the verb.

Multiple choice

Change it into indirect speech They said,"Please guide us the way." Principal said,"You have been completing the project for an hour." He said ,"I have been playing football for an since evening." He said to me ,"The sun is bright."

  1. They requested to guide them the way.

  2. Principal said that I had been completing the project for an hour

  3. He said that he had been playing football since evening

  4. He said to me that the sun is bright
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A,B,C,D Correct answer
Multiple choice

Very few things are so useful as television. ( Superlative)

  1. Television is one of the most useful things.

  2. Television is one of the most useful thing.

  3. Television is the most useful thing.

  4. Television is the most useful things.
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

When converting 'Very few things are as useful as television' to a superlative, it becomes 'Television is one of the most useful things'.

Multiple choice

If you watch television, you can learn many things. (simple)

  1. Without watching television you can learn many things.

  2. By watching television you can't learn many things.

  3. By watching television you can learn many things.

  4. Without watching television you can hardly learn many things.
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

The original sentence establishes a positive condition. Option C correctly uses the prepositional phrase 'By watching' to maintain the meaning that television facilitates learning.

Multiple choice

Television should telecast educative programs. (Passive)

  1. Educative programs shall be telecast by television.

  2. Educative programs should be telecasted by television.

  3. Educative programs would be telecast by television.

  4. Educative programs should be telecast by television.
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

In passive voice, the verb 'telecast' remains 'telecast' in its past participle form. Option D correctly follows the structure 'should be + past participle'.

Multiple choice

 People of all ages like to watch television. (Interrogative)

  1. Weren’t the people of all ages like to watch television?

  2. Didn’t the people of all ages like to watch television?

  3. Wasn’t the people of all ages like to watch television?

  4. Don’t the people of all ages like to watch television?
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

To form an interrogative from a positive statement, use the auxiliary verb 'do' in the negative form. 'People' is plural, so 'Don't' is the correct choice.

Multiple choice

Nowadays, almost every family has a television set. (Negative)

  1. Nowadays, there is any family without a television set.

  2. Nowadays, there is no family without a television set.

  3. Nowadays, there is no family with a television set.

  4. Nowadays, there is any family but for a television set.
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

To transform a positive statement into a negative one while keeping the meaning, use a double negative construction. 'There is no family without a television set' effectively means every family has one.

Multiple choice

Scientists spent many years and worked hard to invent TV. (complex)

  1. Scientists spent many years and worked hard so that they can invent TV.

  2. Scientists spent many years but worked hard so that they could invent TV.

  3. Scientists spent many years and worked hard so that they could invent TV.

  4. Scientists spented many years and worked hard so that they could invent TV.
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

A complex sentence requires a dependent clause. Using 'so that' with the past tense 'could' correctly explains the purpose of the scientists' hard work.

Multiple choice

Television is one of the most wonderful inventions of modern science. (Positive)

  1. Very few inventions of modern science is as wonderful as television.

  2. Very few inventions of modern science are as wonderful as television.

  3. NO other inventions of modern science are as wonderful as television.

  4. No other invention of modern science is as wonderful as television.
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

When transforming a superlative to a positive degree, 'one of the' requires 'Very few... are as... as'. This maintains the plural subject agreement.

Multiple choice

United we stand, ------- (Completing Sentences)

  1. Together we fall

  2. divided we fall.

  3. divided i fall

  4. divided they fall
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

This is a common proverb. The completion 'divided we fall' correctly contrasts with 'united we stand'.

Multiple choice

This is the boy --------(Completing Sentences)

  1. who I was looking for.

  2. whom I was looking for.

  3. whom I was look for.

  4. who I was look for.
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

In this relative clause, 'whom' is the object of the preposition 'for'. Therefore, 'whom I was looking for' is grammatically correct.