Do as directed (any five): 1. You can catch the bus if you take a taxi. (Rewrite using 'unless' in place of 'if') 2. He had his lunch. (Change into 'past perfect' tense) 3. (a)... Do as directed (any five): 1. You can catch the bus if you take a taxi. (Rewrite using 'unless' in place of 'if') 2. He had his lunch. (Change into 'past perfect' tense) 3. (a) She did not talk to me. (b) She did not look at me. (Combine the sentences using 'neither...nor') 4. You/have/how much/experience/got? (Rearrange the words and make a sentence) 5. The tea is so hot that I can't drink it. (Rewrite the sentence using 'too...to') 6. My friend sent me a letter. (Change the voice) 7. As soon as I met my friend, I started weeping. (Rewrite the sentence using 'No sooner...than')
Understand the Problem
The question is asking us to solve some English grammar and sentence structure problems, including rewriting sentences using specific words or phrases, changing tenses, combining sentences, rearranging words to form a sentence, and changing the voice of a sentence.
Answer
(i) You can't catch the bus unless you take a taxi. (ii) He had had his lunch. (iii) She neither talked to me nor looked at me. (iv) How much experience have you got? (v) The tea is too hot to drink. (vi) A letter was sent to me by my friend. (vii) No sooner did I meet my friend than I started weeping.
Here are the answers to any five of the questions:
(i) You can't catch the bus unless you take a taxi. (ii) He had had his lunch. (iii) She neither talked to me nor looked at me. (iv) How much experience have you got? (v) The tea is too hot to drink. (vi) A letter was sent to me by my friend. (vii) No sooner did I meet my friend than I started weeping.
Answer for screen readers
Here are the answers to any five of the questions:
(i) You can't catch the bus unless you take a taxi. (ii) He had had his lunch. (iii) She neither talked to me nor looked at me. (iv) How much experience have you got? (v) The tea is too hot to drink. (vi) A letter was sent to me by my friend. (vii) No sooner did I meet my friend than I started weeping.
More Information
To answer all the questions, I applied grammatical transformations based on the instructions given for each sentence, ensuring correct tense, sentence structure, and meaning.
Tips
A common mistake is not fully understanding the grammatical rules for each transformation. For example, forgetting the correct past perfect tense structure or misusing 'neither...nor'.
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