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Level 5: First Certificate/Advanced >> Sentence Transformation/Sentence Rewrite Worksheets >> Testing a wide range of English grammar such as comparatives, conditionals, tense usage and so on, these worksheets require your students to change the wording of a sentence without changing its meaning.

Sentence Transformations - worksheet 25

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. Do you regret leaving your job now?
you
Do you wish _________________________ now?

2. Could you try a little harder to listen to what I'm saying?
effort
Can you _________________________ listen to what I'm saying?

3. It doesn't matter which chemical you put into the mixture first. The results will be the same.
difference
It _________________________ you put into the mixture first.

4. My mother said I could go with you only if I return home by 5pm.
long
I can go with you _________________________ by 5pm.

5. Unfortunately, I couldn't see you because I didn't have time.
able
If I had had more time, I _________________________ see you.

6. These windows need cleaning again.
have
These windows will _________________________.

7. It wasn't a good idea resigning from your job before you have another one.
better
It would _________________________ hadn't resigned from your job.

8. Hardly any of the cars on special offer were left when we arrived.
nearly
By the time we arrived, _________________________ had been bought.