SENTENCE TRANSFORMATION

Vocabulary:

To die of starvation: cht i

Arrival (n): s n

Doubtful:

To be unjustly treated: b i x khng cng bng

Unjust treatment: s i x khng cng bng

To insist on: nn n

To contact = to keep contact with: gi lin lc vi

To survive: cn sng

Anxious (adj) about: lo lng

To imprison:

A rioter:

An one-trunk bridge: cu kh

The absence: s vng mt

1. We hope that better times will come

We hope for the coming (arrival) of better times.

2. It is terrible that people should die of starvation.

Death of starvation is terrible.

3. He said that he would come tomorrow.

His arrival tomorrow was said.

4. It was so dark that we lost our way.

It was dark enough for us to lose our way.

5. He complained that he had been unjustly treated.

He complained about his unjust treatment.

6. I insist that you should not go.

I insist on your not going.

7. We must do the work as well as we can.

We must do the work to the best of our ability.

8. You must write to me as soon as you reach Bombay.

You must write to me after your arrival in Bombay.

9. Those soldiers who survived have received medals.

Those surviving soldiers have received medals.

10. I will buy it, cost what it may.

I will buy it at all costs/ at any cost.

11. Whatever you do, I will support.

I will support you in anything.

12. An honest man speaks as he thinks.

An honest man speaks out his thoughts.

13. When the cat is away, the mice will play.

The mice will play in the absence of the cat.

14. Until he was in his thirtieth year, he remained unmarried.

Until the age of thirty, he remained unmarried.

15. He wrote as he was instructed.

He wrote as instructed.

16. He ordered the police that they should imprison the rioters.
He ordered the police to imprison the rioters.