Printable Page  

Level 5: First Certificate/Advanced >> Sentence Transformation/Sentence Rewrite Worksheets >> Students need to use a given key word in order to transform a sentence using different structure of vocabulary without changing the core meaning.

Sentence Transformations - worksheet 11

You need to take the information in the first sentence and re-write it, using the word in bold so that the second sentence has exactly the same meaning. You cannot change the word in bold in ANY way. You can use only a maximum of FIVE words for each space.

1. It was silly of you to speak to your boss like that.
spoken
You ______________________________ boss like that!

2. What do you advise me to do?
I
What ______________________________?

3. There are always a lot of cars in the downtown area at this time.
traffic
There is ______________________________ in the downtown area at this time.

4. Is it possible to smoke in this room?
allowed
Is ______________________________ this room?

5. She was taken in an ambulance five minutes ago
hospital
They ______________________________ five minutes ago.

6. Chicago is a big city, but Los Angeles is bigger.
not
Chicago ______________________________ Los Angeles.

7. That story he told sounded very invented.
made
I'm sure that story ______________________________.

8. Who owns this pen?
belong
Who ______________________________ to?