Complete the sentences with suitable phrase/words given in the box.

(a) Selina cannot afford to buy a cell phone----, a laptop. Actually, she is very poor.
(b) It may rain today. You---- leave earlier.
(c) ----is many years since we first meet. How time does fly!
(d) His mother being sick, he needs go to home---- possible.'
(e) We----develop our humanity than observe hartal and 'strike. Let us change our destructive culture.
(f) ----- have been significant changes in the field of entertainment.
(g) Shakespeare was a versatile genius. He--- in 1564.
(h) honesty ----? It is the best quality in-life.
(i) A good citizen ---- perform a lot of things...
(j) ----- the national flower of Bangladesh ----?
a) let alone; b) had better; c) It; d) as soon as; e) would rather; f) There; g) was born; h) What's...like; i) has to; j) What does....look like.
- He is poor but he is honest. (Complex)
- Cricket is a very exciting game. (Make it Exclamatory)
- We are proud of our freedom fighters.(Interrogative)
- Read the text and change the sentences as directed: —(a) An honest man is honoured everywhere by all. (Active) (b) He is not only a teacher but also a singer. (Simple) (c) Though we are improving very fast, we have to work hard for the country. (Compound) (d) Very few cricket teams in the world are as unpredictable as Pakistan. (Superlative) (e) My friend came to me to get help from us. (Complex)
- 'I know you.' Choose the complex form-
- He acted on my advice'- complex form of this sentence is-
- ‘We must not be late, else we will miss the train.’ This is a-
- ‘Please bring me a cup of tea’ What kind of sentence is this?
- Read the text and change the sentences as directed: —Success never comes automatically. (a) We work hard to attain success in our lifE- (Complex) (b) Peace and prosperity is not possible without being industrious. (Affirmative) (c) A man who leads an idle life, brings misery for his lifE- (Simple) (d) He can never help the people of the society. (Passive) Such kind of man is the burden on the society. (e) Everybody abhors him. (Negative)
- Let us love our country. (Simple)
- Jim and Della were as wise as the Magi (Nagative)
- Read the text and change the sentences as directed: —(a) Jim and Della sacrificed their dearest possessions in order to buy Christmas presents for each other (Compound). (b) Della had an ardent desire to give her husband a worthy gift (Complex). (c) Jim also thought how he could give his wife a nice gift (Simple). (d) Della saved a scanty amount of money for this (Passive). (e) Jim was one of the sincerest husbands that we have ever known (Positive).
- Read the text and change the sentences as directed: —(a) Most of the people of our country are living in the rural areas. (Make it interrogative without the change of meaning) (b) They are peace loving. (Make it complex) (c) They are more patriotic and industrious. (Make it positive) (d) They love their motherland profoundly. (Make it passive) (e) Although they are insolvent, they do not adopt any unfair means to become rich overnight. (Make it simple)
- He tried his best. (Negative)
- All love flower. (Interrogative)?
- Although he is poor, he is honest (Simple).
- Read the text and change the sentences as directed: —(a) Some essential agricultural inputs are to be ensured to increase our food production. (Make it active) (b) The farmers who are poor do not get loans on easy terms. (Make it simple) (c) What a pity! (Make it Assertive) (d) The farmers do not get the facilities necessary for food production. (Make it complex)(e) Unfortunately, they do not get the due price of their products. (Make it compound)
- As soon as the teacher enters the classroom, the students stand up. (Negative)
- Writing is better than reading' - Negative form of this sentence is -
- The man is so weak that he cannot walk. (Simple)
- I saw him going to market. (Compoud)
- Do or die (Make it Simple)
- It burns the prettiest of any wood. (Positive)
- Read to learn. (Complex)
- Read the text and change the sentences as directed: —(a) Long long ago there was a king who was very wisE- (Make it simple) (b) People called him wise Solomon. (make it passive). (c) Actually at that time he was the wisest of all. (Make it comparative)(d) There was another ruler also named Queen of Sheba. (Make it complex) (e) One day she thought Solomon’s wisdom should not remain untested. (Make it affirmative)