Miscellaneous Grammar ( Seen and Unseen mixed )
Note : Answer key is also provided towards the end of the worksheet. ( Kindly first solve on your own and then check answers)
Do as Directed:
1) I stood trembling outside the imposing RBI building.( Frame a Wh-question to get underlined part as an answer)
2) I eagerly climbed up to take in the sights of Mumbai. ( Identity the tense )
3) I enjoyed so many theatre performances. ( Rewrite using “ used to")
4)..........my friend is....able translator and.....impartial editor as well. ( Rewrite it using appropriate articles)
5) I was......my regular walk through the forest........9 a.m. (Rewrite it using appropriate prepositions)
6) Gandhiji said to Netaji , “ Can you stay here for a day ?” ( Change it into indirect speech )
7) You could pay eight times the going rate for a ‘ lighting call'. ( Rewrite it using modal auxiliary showing compulsion)
8) I spent my high school years in Calcutta. ( Rewrite it using past perfect tense)
9) Telephones were a rarity. ( Make it a rhetorical question)
10) The T.V. does serve as a medium of education as well as an entertainment. ( Rewrite it using “ not only....but also”)
11) I consider T.V. as one of the greatest scientific achievements of our times. ( Rewrite it using the noun form of the underlined word.)
12) As soon as the king had finished speaking , the people had begun to cheer him. (Rewrite using “ No sooner....than)
13) Keep quiet or you'll be punished. ( Make it a complex sentence )
14) Walking on the grass is forbidden. ( Rewrite it using infinitive form of the underlined word )
15) Read a book. ( Change the voice)
Answer Key
1. Where did I stand trembling?
2. Simple past tense
3. I used to enjoy so many theatre performances.
4. My friend is an able translator and an impartial editor as well.
5. I was on my regular walk through the forest at 9 am.
6. Gandhiji asked Netaji if he could stay there for a day.
7. You must pay eight times the going rate for a "lighting call".
8. I had spent my high school days in Calcutta.
9. Weren't telephones a rarity ?
10. The T.V. does serve as a medium of not only education but also entertainment.
11. In my consideration, TV is one of the greatest achievements of our times.
OR
It is my consideration that TV is one of the greatest scientific achievements of our times.
12. No sooner had the kind finished speaking than the people had begun to cheer him.
13. If you do not keep quiet , you'll be punished.
14. To walk on the grass is forbidden
15. Let a book be read.
OR
You are requested to read a book.
