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Level 5: First Certificate/Advanced >> Sentence Transformation/Sentence Rewrite Worksheets >> In this exercise, students have to read one sentence and write the second sentence so that the meaning is not changed. This is a good test of grammatical understanding.

Sentence Transformations - worksheet 3 answers

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. Marcus started learning French two years ago.
learning
Marcus has __BEEN LEARNING FRENCH FOR__ two years.

2. Harry isn't here. He went to lunch twenty minutes ago.
gone
Harry isn't here. He __HAS GONE TO__ lunch.

3. Do you own that stereo?
yours
Is __THAT STEREO YOURS__?

4. Look at how black the sky is! There is rain arriving.
going
Look at how black the sky is! It __IS GOING TO RAIN__.

5. What a shame. There is no food left!
wish
I __WISH WE HAD SOME FOOD__ left!

6. What a shame. They ate all the food.
wish
I __WISH THEY HADN'T EATEN__ all the food.

7. The teenagers were stealing my car when I arrived.
being
My car __WAS BEING STOLEN BY THE__ teenagers when I arrived.

8. You use that little hammer to crack the stones.
for
This little hammer __IS FOR CRACKING THE STONES__.