MARCH 2014 English Board Exam Grammar.
Do As Directed.
1. I used to go to collect 60 rupees per month. (Rewrite the sentence using Modal auxiliary ‘would’)
Ans. I would go to collect 60 rupees per month.
2. Principal Bhave said, “Mashelkar, if you focus your energies like this, you can burn anything in the world.”
(How will Mashelkar report this to his friend?)
Ans. Principal Bhave told me that if I focused my energies like that, I could burn anything in the world.
3. “We call it Kalapani as we are along in the middle of the sea for days,” he says. (Use ‘that’ and rewrite the sentence)
Ans. He says that they call it Kalapani as they are alone in the middle of the sea for days.
4. It was meant to stem the number of shipwrecks off the harbour.
(a) was it? (b) wasn’t it? (c) is it?
(Select the proper tag and rewrite the sentence)
5. Coronary bypass surgery is undoubtedly a very significant achievement of modern science.
(Use ‘which’ and rewrite the sentence)
Ans. it is coronary bypass surgery which is undoubtedly a very significant achievement of modern science.
6. The heart surgeons perform a special type of operation. (Begin your sentence with ‘A special type of operation..’)
Ans. A special type of operation is performed by the heart surgeons.